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By Wang Xiang |
August 24, 2010, Tuesday
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BEIJING'S traffic woes will get worse by 2015 as there will be 7 million cars in the city and the traffic jams will reduce the average driving speed to 15 kilometers per hour at rush hours.
The situation will be unbearable if the private cars continue to increase at the current pace of 1,900 cars every day, Guo Jifu, head of the Beijing Transportation Research Center, told a symposium to discuss the city's traffic problems.
It took only two years and seven months for Beijing to see vehicles surge from 3 million to 4 million. For Tokyo, it took 12 years to realize the surge. The reseach center attributed rocketing surge of vehicles in Beijing to the low costs of driving private cars in Beijing.
If the growth rate continued, number of vehicles would hit 7 million in Beijing by 2015, Guo said. The rearch center said Beijing's roads could only support 6.7 million vehicles. Seven million cars means an area as big as the entire downtown Beijing would be needed to park those cars.
According to Beijing municipal transport commission, the city had 4.4 million vehicles on the road in the first half of 2010 at an average driving speed of 24.2 km per hour during weekdays morning rush hours, 3.6 percent slower than the morning rush hour speed last year.
The situation will be unbearable if the private cars continue to increase at the current pace of 1,900 cars every day, Guo Jifu, head of the Beijing Transportation Research Center, told a symposium to discuss the city's traffic problems.
It took only two years and seven months for Beijing to see vehicles surge from 3 million to 4 million. For Tokyo, it took 12 years to realize the surge. The reseach center attributed rocketing surge of vehicles in Beijing to the low costs of driving private cars in Beijing.
If the growth rate continued, number of vehicles would hit 7 million in Beijing by 2015, Guo said. The rearch center said Beijing's roads could only support 6.7 million vehicles. Seven million cars means an area as big as the entire downtown Beijing would be needed to park those cars.
According to Beijing municipal transport commission, the city had 4.4 million vehicles on the road in the first half of 2010 at an average driving speed of 24.2 km per hour during weekdays morning rush hours, 3.6 percent slower than the morning rush hour speed last year.
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