For those of us living in Melbourne, especially those working nine to five, Melbourne has never let us down in terms of transportation.
At 9: 00, you drive your beloved car an hour in advance, ready to rush all the way to the top of your career, but when you get out of the house, what you see is this:
Endless car taillights, lighting your career life, the turtle quickly moved to work, pinching fingers, lunch.
When you leave class at 6 p.m., ready to go home for dinner with joy, witty you choose public transport to avoid the late rush hour, and as you admire your IQ while waiting for the train, you see this:
The bus stops and wakes you home all the way, you watch the sky at night, it is time to eat midnight snacks.
So here's the question. How bad is the traffic situation in Melbourne? Melbourne has once again rushed out of the southern hemisphere to the world as a new "Urban Traffic Index report" covering 38 major cities around the world!
The first is everyone's most concerned about traffic congestion, according to the report, Melbourne ranked 27 out of 38 cities (the lower the ranking, the worse the traffic situation)!
And, according to statistics, Melbourne drivers every 100 kilometers, because of traffic jams will delay 35 minutes.
CEO,Steve Warrington of the Australian Fire Department (CFA) says Melbourne firefighters often can't even drive fire engines when traffic jams, and volunteers at the fire station can't even get to their units when they hear a fire!
Therefore, traveling in Melbourne, driving is not a very wise choice! What about Melbourne's public transport? Melbourne's tram can be said to be well known, and this traffic report will certainly not leave it alone!
According to the report, Melbourne's public transport coverage is only 71%, ranking 25, India's Mumbai ranked 29!
Of course, as long as the tram is fast enough, the coverage is low.
As a result, Melbourne tram's speed, already ranked among the world's highest! According to ABC, the tram, around Melbourne is as high as 16 kilometers per hour, while the CBD's tram, is up to 11 kilometers per hour. The world's slowest tram!
As a contrast: normal people walk at 5 km / h and bike at 15.5 km / h.
In other words, apart from road repairs, temporary re-wiring and other "unusual" sudden "situations, Melbourne tram speed can already be comparable with the speed of normal running!
In addition, Melbourne's public transport costs are not cheap, accounting for 3.5% of per capita income, ranking 23. 5%.
At this time, some people will say, since this is the case, it is better to learn from China, a large number of shared bikes! Everybody ride bikes!
Yes, Melbourne government does provide you with bicycles, and according to statistics, there are 0.12 bicycles for every 1, 000 people!
However, the fact that 10, 000 people snatched a bike can not be entirely blamed on the government, the Australian people for the bike-sharing unexplained evil taste, cut off the future of shared bikes.
Melbourne's bike-sharing would have gone further had it not been for the Australian people who always liked to let the bike go to the ground.
For Melbourne's traffic situation, the headache government is also constantly making improvements!
For example, in order to alleviate the CBD traffic pressure, subway tunnel construction is in full swing, so the already blocked Flinders Street began construction.
In other words, just wait until 2022, Flinders Street will not be blocked!
For example, in order to facilitate everyone to the airport, Melbourne finally was inspired by the idea of building the airport train line good idea! Although this good idea has long been played by a lot of countries.
And Melbourne proudly announced that the airport line would open by 2022!
Of course, at the pace of construction in Australia, it is a mystery whether these facilities can be completed by the specified date.
So, before Melbourne's traffic problems are really improved, it's time to go out.
Oh, let's stay out of the house!