Keep Moving; Transport  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8791 (Jun. 2012), page S10-S12.
Topik: Cities; Geographic Profiles; Infrastructure; Roads & Highways; Transportation Planning; Airports; Railway Networks

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A hundred years ago London had the best infrastructure in the world. Its legacy is historically impressive but sometimes difficult to manage. There are various ways of freeing up roads. Investment in public transport--of which there has been a great deal--is one. Technology can also ease congestion. Some 40% of London's traffic lights can sense the length of the queues at each light of an intersection and adjust their timing accordingly. That technology, which is being progressively rolled out, allows 12% more vehicles to make use of the existing road network. But the politics of roads are nothing to the politics of airports. The argument over how to improve London's air links has been running for half a century. The problem is not simply one of airport capacity. The problem is hub capacity. Sceptics point out that New York does not have a dominant hub. But New York is hardly a model for London to follow. The only airport experience worse than arriving at Heathrow is arriving at JFK. The government is conducting a review of airport capacity, and says that all options are under consideration--except the only one that seems feasible and useful, the third runway.

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