BANDUNG SHOULD NOT BUILD NEW ROADS
Roads
all over Bandung are getting much and the condition is bad. So should the
government build more road? Or not build new roads?
We know that new roads don’t solve people’s
transport problems. Instead, road-building generates even more traffic, damages
the countryside, adds to climate change and makes cities, towns and villages
less pleasant places to live for everyone.
Hundreds of miles of new roads,
costing billions of rupiah. When a new road is built, new traffic will
divert into it. Many people may make new trips they would otherwise not make,
and will travel longer distances just because of the presence of the new road.
Traffic levels on bypassed roads can also rise faster than expected due to
induced traffic, all of which means the hoped-for benefits of a new road can
evaporate very quickly. The benefits and costs of a new road will not be
accurately calculated, which can lead to big mistakes being made with public
money. And even if induced traffic is forecast correctly, it will still cause
damaging environmental impacts and extra congestion that make building big new
roads more pointless than ever.
We can change our habit using
private transport into using public transport. It will decrease the traffic jam
and air pollution. If Bandung build new roads and follow transport development
it mean nothing.
So the best way to increasing a traffic jam is
not build new roads.
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