Traffic Congestion
in cities of Sri Lanka
Think
of an evening at Colombo, when you are inside a bus hoping to reach your home
town. The bus is crawling pace to pace inside a stream of vehicle who repeating
the same pace without a change, how do you feel? Once when I was in a hurry, I
was troubled with same happening and I had to spend total one and half hours to
reach to the university. All of these because of the “Traffic Congestion” in
cities. Mostly during the weekdays in three periods of time, we have to
experience the traffic in main cities. Firstly at the morning from 6am to 8am
during the school and office starting hours, it’s hard to get into a bus or to
move a vehicle. It was the most crowded time of cities. Next, at the end of the
schools, from 1.30pm to 3pm afternoon. Finally, at the evening from 4.30 to
7.30 at the evening, you can experience huge traffic congestion continuously in
every city. This huge problem not only for us, but for the whole world. Still
no one can found a suitable solution for the road traffics
.
Traffics
snitch not only our precious time, but there are many more. Actually, because
of traffics, there’s a huge loss of time of working people. Sometimes it causes
to minimize the human contacts and interactions. During traffic, people have to
lose their time and also they have to burn more extra fuel to move ahead. That
is the causes the degradation of national income of the country. Sometimes
traffic causes so many accidents and people are not secure during the journey
to their houses. Not only had that, mostly women including child to adult, had
to face a lot of problems in buses and other public transport methods. They are
insecure and it’s a problem which contains no solutions. Nowadays, traffic has
opened a door to thieves who are acute in steeling the passengers’ money,
mobiles and other valuable things. So, we can identify traffic as a social
problem.
On
the other hand, traffic creates most of the environmental pollution in cities. Simply,
the vehicle emissions pollutes the city air. Due to the time taken to move
ahead, the vehicles emits a huge sound from their engines and wheels. This
cause noise pollution and also creates a vibration up to an exceeding decibel of
the normal level. The day time sunlight also effects on people badly because
cities consist of less trees.Indirectly, the traffic pollutes the water bodies
during rainy seasons by the washouts on the roads. Because of the traffic, the
collection of dust, oil patches, litter and other dirt makes the outlook of the
towns unpleasant. Based on the above pollution, finally people have to suffer
from so many defects, not only for the inhabitants, but for the visitors and
nearby dwellers. Any how this is another reason for the degradation of national
income.
Finally
we can conclude that, the traffic is not only creates problem in transportation
sector, but also in social, environmental and economic sections. If we are
without actions, we will unable to develop our countries. It’s in our hands to
settle the situation before it corrupt the whole country. So, start on thinking
from today in order to plan the city and to reduce traffic.
