5 simple ways to do your part to reduce traffic

Category: Cars, Road

Nobody likes sitting in traffic. We try to find the best ways to avoid it so that we don’t become late to work, miss social events, or become stressed. Also, traffic congestion produces air pollution that negatively affects the environment as it creates serious breathing problems in young children and the elderly. Not to mention, your vehicle is burning up more gas as this will lead you to spend extra cash filling up your tank at the pump.

You can do your part in preserving the environment, saving money in gas costs, and relieving the unwanted stress by reducing the amount of traffic out on the roads. Read these 5 tips to help you reduce vehicle traffic.

Tip #1: Avoid Peak Times

There are certain times of the day when more vehicles are on the roads, usually people heading to work or school in the mornings and people heading home in the evenings. Also known as rush hour traffic, major cities of San Francisco, Miami, Houston, and Seattle all have the highest traffic congestion levels between 56-percent up to 77-percent, according to TomTom North American Congestion Index.

You can cut down on your time spent with your car idling in slow traffic by driving when there are less vehicles out on the road. Try to schedule trips to the bank and errands such as the grocery shopping during afternoon hours — before or after the lunch rush — and later in the evenings after workers get home.

Tip #2: Car Shipping Companies

More people are making cross country moves to obtain better jobs or be closer to family members. If you’re moving yourself and your family, you may be wondering how to get all your vehicles to your new home.

Consider car shipping companies. These businesses will haul all your vehicles on one truck, which uses less fuel and allows you to avoid the headache of sitting in traffic. They will deliver it to your home so you don’t have to worry about having all your family members out on the road driving your vehicles, as they could become lost, stuck in traffic, or involved in an accident.

Tip #3: Carpooling

Sometimes you just can’t avoid the rush hour traffic and the congestion. But you can contribute less traffic on the road by carpooling. Carpooling is a great way to get to and from work. You won’t always have to drive, which reduces stress, and each person can take turns driving. This saves on the wear-and-tear to your vehicle and car maintenance costs. Carpooling also promotes better traffic flow and less air emissions in the environment.

Tip #4: Planning Routes

Before you go on any trip, plan out your route so you can avoid any road construction or other traffic jams.There are numerous apps available for your smartphone that will tell you in real-time about traffic congestion. These apps allow drivers who are actually on the road to send information to other phone users concerning traffic conditions, according to Daily Crowd Source.

Tip #5: Public Transportation

Public transportation can get you to your destination on time while reducing the amount of traffic on the roads. Public transportation drivers are continually updated on road conditions by their dispatch so that if there is an accident, the drivers can adjust their routes to avoid vehicle congestion. It is also cheaper to take public transportation and less stressful as you don’t have to sit in traffic wondering if you will be late for work and you can catch up on reading, social media, or listen to some new music.

Other Ways To Reduce Traffic

These tips are only a few methods that you can use to reduce traffic. There are certainly other ways, such as walking or bicycling, that can also get you to your destination. Share your ideas and these metho

Comments (20)

  1. I things “Public Transportation” only the best way to reduce traffic, and it have many another utilities

  2. Bharath says:

    I saw everyone is buying cars and using them as a personal vehicle to reach office. A car can have a minimum capacity of 4 seater. I mostly see only one person in the car and occupy more space on the road.
    I observed if you put 40 cars in a line it will occupy at least half kilometer on a single lane. If 40 people travel in public transport, they that leads to less vehicles on the road and less pollution as well.

  3. Hari says:

    I understand to reduce the tranffic congestion is maily due to the lack of road reflections. I will explain in detail. Imagine the road has 3 lanes, each lane has different speeding sytems, we have to follow the same speeding sytem. We cannot decide our own speeding system on the roads, we have to follow the reflections of the road and move accordingly. I notcied some motorist moves very low speed and some of them are very high speed, it will create confusions. We should be th champign on the roads, follow the rules and drive safe. So, according to me road refelction is important. Its not our prive road to ride accordingly to our wish, its public road, so allow others to move forward too.

  4. Hari says:

    Mr. Bharat, I am not completely agreeing with the use of public transport. Especially in hot countries like Middle East, we cannot get 100% public transport, due to the extreme climate conditions, and even sales job, its very difficult to use public transport, most of the places are remote no access to the public transport, even office to home to office, this public transport is the best option.

  5. sahu says:

    I agree but we only need to do is that to follow the traffic rules
    and MR BHARAT’S SOLUTION IS CARPOOLING

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  17. Prabhu Pal says:

    According to me, we need to avoid personal vehicle in our cities for local activities. We should use only public transportation at that time. We should follow traffic rules and always driving in a Lane. Government should taken some strict action against rules breaker.

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  19. Ram says:

    I FULLY AGREE WITH BHARATH – EVEN FOR A SMALL RIDE OF 2 TO 5 KMS, SOME PEOPLE ARE using the car. Can’t they use the two wheeler. Is it very problematic in using it? They are really a nuisance to the traffic. That too only one person in the car. It seems these people want to live on the roads for long hrs and make other ppl life miserable. This is really a horrible situation. Why there’s no minimum common sense of it.

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