Looking at the issues regarding transport, locally and nationally.

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In this piece of coursework I am looking at the issues regarding transport, locally and nationally. These issues are:  

  • Traffic Jams
  • Congestion
  • Pollution
  • Parking
  • Cost
  • Public Transport
  • Repairs
  • Accidents

These problems need solutions and I have decided to make a chart on the traffic around the area of Hatch End High School. (Red Border)

There are three sites I have chosen, also marked on the map.

Site 1: Blue mark – Outside front gate of Hatch End High.

Site 2: Red mark – The parade of shops.

Site 3: Yellow mark – Outside St. Teresa’s First school.

I will be monitoring these areas on the type and amount of traffic that goes past. As the traffic is a problem already. I will be trying to prove that there are three sites by the school that get busy at three different times of day. The sites are located around the school. I chose those particulars sites because I will find they will give me the best varied results.

Traffic growth presents us with serious problems and challenges for the future. Its cost to the community and the environment in terms of congestion, road crashes, health problems and climate change are serious. Some local authorities have set traffic reduction targets and others are keen to introduce congestion charging, but nationally the Government has shied away from taking a lead on cutting traffic.

 In 1952 there were 2 million cars on the road in Britain. Now there are 22 million and traffic is still continuing to grow. According to the Government's own figures it is projected to be half as much again by 2026. Traffic congestion is becoming more and more of a problem. The average speed of traffic in central London, for example, is around the speed of a horse and cart. But it is not just cities that will suffer in the future. Experts predict that traffic will grow most rapidly in the suburbs and rural areas and congestion on motorways is expected to become crippling.

Traffic is growing by between 1 and 2 per cent a year, enough to produce big increases in traffic levels over just a few years.

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Congestion is the most obvious effect of growing traffic levels. Everyone suffers the effects of congestion: motorists, business and other road users as well. According to the CBI traffic delays cost the country around £20 billion a year. The knee-jerk reaction to congestion has been to widen roads and build new ones, despite all the signs pointing to this making things worse in the long term. Time and time again it has been shown that new road space creates extra traffic. Nevertheless, pressure for new roads continues and around the country local communities and environmentalists are fighting schemes that would ...

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