BEIJING - China's capital city weighs new restrictions on car use aimed at reducing China's increasingly severe traffic congestion born growing love affair with the automobile.
Reuters traffic creeps along a Beijing Road. The city is new of car use.Gridlock-fighting measures considered include fees for drivers, which to use congested roads and a system, the vehicles from some roads in traffic would peak bar, depending on whether the last digit your vehicle registration number is an odd or even number, a proposal according to written for public comment Monday on the Beijing Municipal Committee transport's website.
Also, the Commission committed more freeways, u-Bahnen and parking structures to build facilities including ride. And recommended it to increase parking fees and calls people to work from home more and more bicycles use – ensuring that near disappearance reverse the biked transport over the last decade as car use in the capital has exploded.
The measures could change or removed before new rules be made final. Monday's document left vague many details, including timing, and the Committee does not respond to a request to comment.
Traffic rule changes in China's capital for weeks, was buzz even though only a trickle of comments in Internet forums appeared after the Commission's concrete proposals website were offered. Drivers should want to buy improvements, of course, but many people still cars and are angry about how the situation got so bad.
Beijing's traffic jams "is actually caused by planning mistakes made previously by the Government", a Beijing resident in a comment said posted on Tianya, a popular Internet Forum in China. Ordinary citizens were pushed from the central Beijing make room for the Government and businesses to "peak hours in the morning, people are flooding in the central city while in the evening, people are rushing out of the Centre town."
Still, reflects the range of proposed measures Government fight traffic under control in the light of a seemingly insatiable appetite for cars from China's growing middle class. China last year surpassed the United States as the largest car market by annual sales and the increase in driving so fast, that many cities such as Beijing could adapt still has not occurred.
Undertook a major expansion of its public-transit system before the summer Olympics 2008, adding new u-Bahn and bus lines, and selected private vehicles from downtown streets of one business day every week excluded based on their license plates. This measure has remained in force, but its original benefits have the growth of new cars was overwhelmed.
The number of cars in Beijing, a city with nearly 20 million people registered has almost doubled the Transport Commission stated by 4.7 million this year from 2.6 million in 2005. State media have to say government researchers, that if nothing is done the car traffic in the capital to 15 kilometers per second, or nine miles per hour by 2015 could slow average speed cited - about the speed of light cycling.
A highway leads in Beijing was the site of one of the world's most infamous traffic jams, a snarling recurred repeatedly over weeks this summer and stretched, as long as 100 km in times - Although jam was caused mainly by commercial truck traffic.
Some parts of China have already driving restrictions. Shanghai, limits, for example, the output of new license plates. And State media said other locales consider to secure such as Eastern provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, such require residents to a parking lot before you buy a car.
Traffic in Beijing has become so bad that the residents and media for months have speculated that new curbs would come. Concerns you may have restrictions on new purchases, to buy with expectations that the national Government could end some incentives for smaller cars, fuel a rush of car purchase in recent months as people trying to get the rules above helped.
Some auto industry executives and analysts think curbs as those considering pulled in Beijing car sales growth may slow down. Xiong Chuanlin, Deputy Secretary of China Association of automobile manufacturers, told a news conference last week, which will slow down car sales growth in China probably around 10% in 2011 after growing up in 2009 nearly 50% and more than 30% this year.
Monday's statement said "Pressure from traffic are becoming overwhelming" in Beijing. "A number of measures are therefore required to traffic congestion to facilitate, which has become worse day by day," he said.
Other proposals include limit on the number of cars current levels, which every year by governmental authorities can be bought many of you - an allusion to the huge number of official vehicles, luxury cars that clog the streets. And the Municipal Government is pushing people to teleworking and encouraging companies employees work more flexible hours to enable.
Many residents in Beijing are efforts expected to improve traffic welcome. But is difficult for the Government to impose higher parking fees and congestion costs because load is lower-income people in a country where the widening wealth gap is a major social issue affecting this single parking fees and transport fees.
-Sue feng, Evelynn Linand Junting Zhang
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