One-way streets are designed to move the greatest number of people possible( in cars), as quickly as possible. Removing opposing traffic and the moderating influence of possible head on collisions allows motorists to concentrate less while operating closer together at higher speeds. One-way streets can also cut the incidence and severity of traffic congestion, delay, and time required to enter or exit the city. One-way streets eliminate some direct routes and force road users to make extra turns and travel greater distances to reach destinations. In this way, one-way orientations create more traffic and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and can confuse non-local motorists. In extreme instances, motorists might lap blocks multiple times or give up and go home or to the mall. One-way streets reduce the viability of downtown businesses in other ways too. Streets crossing one-ways always have one street facade invisible from automobiles, the Burma road are are invisible from Gurney Drive and Kelawai Road, making storefronts and successful businesses more difficult there than on Gurney Drive. One-way streets serve the motorist first-and-foremost and deal only with pedestrians and other stakeholders as an afterthought, they are great when a city serves primarily as an office center and moving office workers into and out of the center quickly is very important. When retail businesses and pedestrians are valued, the drawbacks of one-way streets are harder to overlook. The protest by Pulau Tikus traders and the number of deadly road accidents speak volume about the drawbacks of one-way streets. One way streets even if it able to speed up the vehicle movement it actually transfer the problem of congestion from one place to another. That is why you witness the nightmarish traffic jam that never occurred in certain places before.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:19:47 +0000
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