Latest comments posted about Beijing’s Olympic-sized traffic problem on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/654-Beijing-s-Olympic-sized-traffic-problem http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/654-Beijing-s-Olympic-sized-traffic-problem Shanghai is following the strategic deployment of the central government and putting into practice the scientific concept of development. It is making strides towards realizing the goal of becoming the world economic and shipping center and a socialist cosmopolitan city.Shanghai will continue to embrace friends in China and overseas to make investment and join hands to chart a new course towards common prosperity. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:15:41 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-7212 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-7212 The foreground of our country transportation developing 1. Future society economy development to the need of the transportation (1)The national economy keeps on the growth, the level of people life raises continuously, a freight transportation loses and correspondence the need will have the significant growth .From now to the next century 20's, the national economy total amount of our country will continue to increase with the higher speed, people life level will from fulling and warming to middle-class family and medium the flourishing level .Main product yield especially the scale of the big carrying capacity an industry of coal, steel...etc. will ascend a few step, the amount of freight transportation will further increase .Our country residents trip the need will be significant growth, information exchanges that quantity growth the range is larger. (2)Along with the industrial structure excellent turn to set up the adjustment with industry, the area exchanges scale and city country contacts will further extend .Along with the development of the socialism market economy, the phenomenon that the industrial structure of everyplace is similar to turn will can adjust, the region division of labour that produce will further enhance and reorganize, the area exchanges will strengthen continuously .Main conveyance passage and the carrying capacity of the trunk line will significant growth, goods exchanges between the city country will more multifarious .The goods category increases continuously, to the conveyance quantity, the request that send to time raises increasingly. (3)An economy of extrovert and import and exports further develop, delivering cargo the thing quantity increment outside, the product file time raises continuously, transporting the quantity to have higher request .The costliness value, the high time limited efficacy merchandise ratio will increase quickly, and will make use of to gather to pack extensively .Follow the harbor and follow the all-directions liberal structure and form of the side seaport and inlands, put forward the higher request with correspondence to the conveyance. (4)Speed to win to develop western region and must improve the transportation condition first with the development of the poor region .The nation values towards contracting a margin of region and" the old and little side is poor" regions to take off the poverty to amass a fortune very, just adopt various measure to speed it develop, the development transportation and correspondences are then the initial mission. 2. The development direction and target (1)Develop the direction .Keep on for the sake of the establishment socialism market economy system and national economies, fast, the demand of the healthy development, our country transportation, correspond by letter and will press mostly as follows direction development: Speed the transportation facilities construction, raise to equip the technique level continuously, significant increment conveyance ability, fight for to make the transportation exceed previous three step with time of about 30 years :The ① by end of this century, making a freight transportation lose nervous condition especially the railroad main trunk line, important and outside port of and energies, outside etc. the goods conveyance of nervous situation, be compare to alleviate and turn round greatly.② by the 2010 years, the transportation demand, the conveyance trunk line network and big passage ability of the basic orientation national economy and social development gets the significant exaltation, the port system be strengthen.③ by the 2020 years the transportation is run before in the development of the national economy and society appropriately, at a high speed the transportation net and big abilities transport the passage to do the well versed whole country for the lord everyplace and the city country, with flourishing along with the harbor and the route on land seaports and international community mutually the comprehensive conveyance system of the is basic to set up. From now on, using 15-20 years, pass the construction and adopt the advanced technique, make the national correspondence net scale capacity of China reside ex- row in world, do compares the forerunner, network to circulate to the technique efficiently, the service quantity is good and adapts the social high time of need. (2) the main point of constructed and the development targets .The construction point of the aftertime is :Speed the railway to construct, correspond a ground of development highway, sea mail and people's shippings to lose, the aggressive development piping conveyance, establishment and perfect comprehensive conveyance systerm ;In order to strengthen the district economy contact, the point speeds the delta of Yangtze River, Pearl Rever Delta, central part, southwest, the northwest and the northeast regions transport the passage construction outward ;For solving traveller's to go gradually difficult, exaltation the passenger transportation ability, adopt the valid measure exaltation railroad train speed and go the car speed, speed to constuct high-speed transportation net constitute by Mass Rapid Transit, superhighway and the aviation net ;With gather to pack the vital point harbor construction and energies to output the harbor and connect to carry the harbor and it gathers the luck circuit for point, strengthen with the international conveyance network of to connect ;Increase the ability of correspond by letter, raise the telephone universality rate, take the area trunk line fiber optic cable and the city country telephone nets as the point. Pass the above effort, go to attain 70,000 kilometers of the railroad business mileage in 2000.( include the place, joint venture railroad)The highway is open to traffic 1,200,000 kilometers of mileage, follow a deep of water of harbor is more than 600, swallowing the ability of vomit over 1,000,000,000 tons, above 20,000 kilometers of channel of five classes.25,000 kilometers of the piping mileage .The national telephone exchanges the total capacity of machine to attain 140,000,000, the universality rate attains 10%,228,000 kilometers of the construction long distance trunk line fiber optic cable. Exceed into 21 centuries, the railroad business mileage will further prolong, replying the line rate specific weight increment, the railroad that links the eastern economic center city will carry out the high speed to turn .The highway is open to traffic the mileage and wills have the significant increment, the grade has the exaltation, will set up at a high speed the highway is the main National Freeway trunk line net .The inland river channel has been cure wholely, the navigation boats and ships tonnage and the wharf facilitieses all have the exaltation, Yangtze River, Pearl River will practice river's sea sail .A quantity of passenger jet growth, the grade exaltation, the communication network facilities level may near to win to wait the flourishing and national level, and set up take Peking, Shanghai, Hong Kong and each center city with economic big areas as to knot the fiber optic cable trunk line net of the point, the telephone universality rate of the hinterland will show the exaltation of . Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:30:47 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-3904 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-3904 The key to solving China's environment issues (such as personal transport) is not to expect the wealthier people to give up their status pursuits such as buying cars, it is to pay a price for it. At least that's the first step. Specifically: Hike petrol prices and fuel tax (pay a price for the extra emissions compared to public transport), lift parking fees (a price for taking up scarce urban land compared to public transport users), get tougher on law enforcement (to prevent illegal parking)...then use this extra revenue for public transport, make roads more conducive to road and pedestrian transport (bring back the bike lanes, no more excessively wide roads with over six lanes, etc.) This would be an incentive for people to cut down on car usage, take public transport and ride bikes instead. Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:02:02 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-3870 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-3870 The developing of transportation has many negative effects though it improves people's lives. Air polution and global warming caused by cars emissions have made bad influence on living condition. I think limiting the number of private cars are the most urgent, and so does developing the environmental energy-efficient vehicles. Mon, 28 May 2007 16:34:40 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-3756 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-3756 Today’s urban environment is changing ever more quickly, especially with regard to travel demands on the local highway and transit networks. Communities must increasingly rely on a variety of transportation modes to move people efficiently and cost-effectively between home, work, and play activities. For example, the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) estimates that urban vehicle miles of travel (VMT) increased at an average rate of 4 percent per year between 1983 and 1993 (66). This increase represents an approximate 49 percent growth in travel over the 10-year period. At the same time, funding for highway related transportation improvements increased by 45 percent, and the total funding for transit related services increased by 58 percent (66). As demand for travel within U.S. urban areas continues to grow, reliance on the single occupancy vehicle (SOV) will often not provide a practical option, especially when many urban areas operate under environmental restrictions caused by concerns for air quality, noise and neighborhood impacts. Many of these urban areas lack adequate right-of-way to expand existing transportation systems while at the same time mitigating these concerns. Sun, 27 May 2007 07:40:12 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-3748 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-3748 I'm a student who's graduating soon, and I'm scared of the public transportation out there. Metro lines are limited, while buses are never enough - and extremely crowded. Especially after the recent price change (a price cut) in public transportaion, even the air-conditioned buses that I often took before became extremely crowded too. If I'm working, the only choice seems to be purchasing a car, which can also be used for work. I don't want it this way, but I can't do anything to change it. I truly hope that public transportation can be improved. amy Wed, 23 May 2007 08:19:55 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-3738 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-3738 It is absurd to encourage people using public transport as a reason to prevent them from purchasing cars. Car purchasing is not just the issue of the country’s automobile industry; but also symbolizing the human civilization, it does not means that busy traffic in any of the developed country, should restrict people from buying car. Over populated is the root cause. In most of the country, it is a command scenario at certain time and certain places which traffic jam always happened. Hence, there is nothing wrong with traffic jam in city. However, if it’s happening everywhere most of the day, it does not seem to be a simple issue though. Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:28:22 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-1089 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-1089 It would be better to comply with the current situation, to encourage economic development for a while. Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:52:01 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-903 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-903 I just want to raise one issue related to Alex's interesting article and the nice discussion that it's sparked: parking. Where are all these cars going to park? In his book, The High Cost of Free Parking, Donald Shoup shows the disastrous effect of the US' treating parking spaces as a commons and then requiring new offices or malls to build parking lots. As a result, people see free (or cheap) parking as a right, and everyone in the US has paid the price for an awful expansion of parking lots across the country. Congestion, of course, has only gotten worse. D. Dembowski Pelham, New York Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:10:16 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-891 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-891 Brian thank you for your thoughtful post. It reminded me of the contraction and convergence idea -- that we set a limit on how much we consider safe and divide the margin between where we are now and what the limit is between everyone on the lanet on a per capita basis. Then developed countries have to shrink emissions (but not necessarily their economies) drastically to fit, while developing countries have room to grow.. it seem like a fair idea to me. What do you think? Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:03:05 -0500 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-883 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/654#comment-883