Traffic Pressure 交通壓力(2 / 3)

Some cities adopt policies to reduce rush-hour traffid pollution and ence the u of public transportation. For example, in S?o Paulo, Manila and in Mexico City, each vehicle has a specific day of the week in which it is forbidden from traveling the roads during rush hour. The day for each vehicle is taken from the li plate number, and this rule is enforced by traffic polid also by hundreds of strategically positioraffic cameras backed by puterized image-reition systems that issue tickets to offending drivers.

In the Uates and ada, veral expressways have a special lane (called an “HOV Lane” - High Occy Vehicle Lahat only be ud by cars carrying two (some locations-three) or more people. Also, many major cities have instituted strict parking prohibitions during rush hour on major arterial streets leading to and from the tral business district. During designated weekday hours, vehicles parked on the primary routes are subject to prompt ticketing and towing at owner expen. The purpo of the restris is to make available an additional traffie in order to maximize available traffic capacity. Additionally, veral cities offer a public telephone rvice where citizens arrange rides with others depending ohey live and work. The purpo of the policies is to reduce the number of vehicles on the roads and thus reduce rush-hour traffitensity.

Metered freeways are also a solution for trolling rush hour traffi Phoenix, Arizona ale, Washington, among other places, metered on-ramps have been implemented. During rush hour, traffic signals are ud with green lights to allow one car per blink of the light to proceed on to the freeway.

春運是中國在農曆春節前後發生的一種大規模的高交通運輸壓力的現象,也可以表達為transport during the Spriival period。春運是一客流高峰期(peak time for pasransport),屆時將迎來巨大的客運量(volume of pasransport),火車站會加開列車(operate br arrara trains),從而緩解交通壓力(ea the traffic pressure),並且開通24小時售票窗口(open 24-hour ticket sales windows)。學校會幫學生進行火車票團體預訂(group ticket-booking),還有送票上門(deliver train tickets to the doorsteps)的服務。春運期間,相關部門也會注意打擊票販子(crack down on scalpers)。

除了春節,讓交通部門特別繁忙的時候還有 National Day放的長假,這兩個節日的連續七天休假均稱為黃金周( golden week)。

Key words & Sentences

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How we avoid traffic jam?

我們怎樣避免堵車呢?

Is the road ahead blocked?

前邊的路堵住了嗎?

There’s a lot of traffi the roads.

路上有很多車。

We ea traffis by building more roads.

我們可以通過修更多的路來緩解交通壓力問題。

We should be able to make it unless we get caught in a traffic jam or something.