Thursday, 12 April 2012

Guernsey traffic congestion

This Island has too much traffic or is it that we just have too few roads?
 

Too much congestion, too often.
 

How to solve it?
 

Private vehicle ownership is now deemed essential and this increasingly means one person, one car. People have got used to the convenience and will not willingly regress and give up what they see as a necessity.
 

Commercial traffic has increased with the popularity of “last minute delivery” and off site storage.
 

There are more tradesmen on the roads, each one with his workshop in the back of the van, traveling from job to job.
 

And the road system remains the same. Less the “improvement” schemes of the Traffic Committee which seldom seem to work. 

Does anyone think the Bridge is better for its improvements?
 

Encouraging more people to cycle only serves to make the problem worse and using big and mostly empty buses doesn’t help much either.
 

As we can’t build bigger roads, the solution seems to be to reduce our traffic. The idea of the car as “a privilege rather than a right” floated like a lead balloon, so an alternative is needed.
 

Maybe the answer is to do nothing, always a good Guernsey solution. 

If it becomes too difficult to drive into Town then people won’t do it as often. Driving for pleasure will become a thing of the past and the roads will just have essential traffic on them. 

Problem solved.
 

Anyone have a better idea?

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