Cities must speed up efforts to address traffic congestion

ON TUESDAY, the China Academy of Transportation Sciences, affiliated to the Ministry of Transport, published a report on the results of its research with other institutions into the urban traffic situation, which listed the cities with the heaviest traffic jams in 2016. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

While big cities have many advantages and are good places to live, they have some problems as well. One of these is the traffic congestion. Truly people can afford better cars in cities because their wages are higher, but they need to spend more time getting home after work because of the heavier traffic. Traffic jams make people unhappy and seriously downgrade the life quality in municipalities.

That's why the report is welcome. It not only ranked the cities that suffer from the heaviest traffic, it also analyzed the various causes of their traffic congestion.