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Vehicle plate restrictions fail to deliver
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IMPROVING public transport is the key to resolving the city’s congestion problems, a senior official said yesterday.
Despite the introduction of tighter controls on vehicles with license plates issued outside Shanghai, the increase in the amount of traffic on the city’s roads means there is still work to be done, government spokesperson Xu Wei told a press conference.
“The restrictions on non-local plates were effective for a few months, but their impact has been lessened by the growth in the number of cars,” he said.
As a result, the government is considering tightening the restrictions on non-Shanghai plates, though the “fundamental solution to traffic congestion lies in lifting the city’s public transport,” he said.
Chen Bizhuang, general engineer of Shanghai Urban-Rural Construction and Transportation Development Research Institute, agreed.
“We should give public transport greater priority, including setting up more bus-only lanes,” he told Shanghai Daily.
Since April last year, all vehicles with non-local plates have been banned from traveling on Shanghai’s expressways between the hours of 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm.
At the end of last year there were more than 3.3 million licensed vehicles in Shanghai, of which about 1.2 million had non-local plates.
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