44% said no. This number is like a thorn.
It’s not a simple opposition, but an emotional distrust that says “don’t treat us as fools”. They never said “useless”, they said “treating the symptoms but not the root cause”. This sounds like they are saying: You are trying to reach into our pockets again, and you are pretending that you are doing our best.
Who is blocking the city in Beijing?
Are there many cars? many. It has reached 8.1 million vehicles, which sounds really scary. But when it comes to the number of vehicles per 1,000 people, we are still less than a fraction of those in developed countries.
So what's the problem? The common people are like a mirror in their hearts.
There are so many buses.
It’s not the usual large number, but the kind that would make Beijing as congested as a parking lot during the holidays. Some are transporting items, and some are visiting relatives and friends. Some netizens joked that once the holidays come, the traffic situation in Beijing is basically paralyzed. A large part of the reason is the "courtesy exchanges" between various departments. Although this sounds vulgar, the truth is not crude.
In addition, there are privileged cars, some blocking traffic, and some using the emergency lane. Do you dare to take pictures? Their license plates are placed there, so what can you do?
Not to mention the frequent traffic control.
No matter big or small, Chang'an Avenue is closed as soon as it is told. We ordinary people can only choose to take a detour and wait. For this kind of "artificial congestion" situation, you have to charge me a congestion fee. Is this the wrong place?
Restrict travel, charge fees, restrict travel again...and then what?
Let’s look back over the years.
Restricting traffic on odd and even numbers, increasing parking fees, and implementing staggered commuting times. When these measures were first implemented, they seemed to have some effect. However, as time goes by, just like the body becomes resistant to drugs, the congestion situation remains unchanged!
Now there is a congestion charge.
When London implemented a toll, vehicle traffic initially fell by 15 percent, but the Tube became overcrowded, and even the city itself later admitted that the move was a mess. Singapore has also implemented toll collection, but the area there is not as large as our Second Ring Road area.
What is the situation like in Beijing? I live in Yanjiao and work in Zhongguancun. The round-trip journey can be hundreds of kilometers in a day. If the fee is really charged based on mileage, it will cost several thousand a month. This is much more expensive than renting a car plate. Isn't this the so-called "passport for the rich"? If you have money, you can drive, but if you don't have money, you can only squeeze in. How fair is this situation?
And how to operate it at a technical level, whether to lay roadblocks on all the second and third rings, or install electronic tags on each vehicle. If the latter is the case, it will still require a huge amount of money. Then how to collect fees for foreign vehicles entering Beijing? Just thinking about it makes people feel a headache.
What is lacking more than roads is “software”
To be honest, what worries us more than Beijing’s traffic is our public policies .
It feels like it is always in a "blocked" state, rather than a "sparse" situation. When oil prices rise, we raise prices accordingly; when water and electricity become tight, we also raise prices; when roads are congested, we still charge fees. Once something happens, I immediately think of asking for it from the people. Does this kind of passing on of responsibility seem too easy?
When the number of vehicles only reached 4 million, the relevant policies became so chaotic. Now that the number has increased to 8.1 million, these fixed methods are still used. If one day the number of vehicles really reaches tens of millions, then won’t we even be able to step out of our homes?
What the people want is actually very simple
In the survey, 49.6% of people said that just improve the public transportation system.
That's all.
Don't let the elderly wait for the bus without even having a chair to sit on.
Don’t let the bus station be one kilometer away from the subway entrance.
Don’t let bike lanes become crowded with cars.
Open up those dead ends .
Take a look at Tokyo. Rail transit accounts for 86% of people’s travels. Take a look at our place again. Line 13 is as crowded as a photo every day, but they are still trying their best to figure out how to collect fees.
And the 37.3% of people put it more directly: start from taking buses .
There are more than 10,000 civil servants in Tokyo, but they only have about a dozen official cars. How about compared to our side? This is a sensitive number and it is not convenient to disclose it. Haha, it’s inconvenient to disclose this situation. Regarding these four words, compared to traffic jams, they make people feel more blocked and more depressed.
write at the end
Congestion charge? Take the next step.
What's the best strategy? It is about bus reform, bus priority, and returning the right of road to the majority of people.
Stop staring at the meager money in the pockets of ordinary people. We must first carry out regular management of those vehicles with special rights and interests. We must first make buses and subways more convenient. We must first remove the congestion points caused by human factors one by one.
At that time, if you mention the charges again, even the people who scold you will be convinced.
Otherwise, no matter how much we collect, this road will still be blocked if it should be blocked .
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