Ideas from Japan on how to ease traffic congestion in cities

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Traffic snarl up of Public Service Vehicles (PSV) along Lagos Road as pictured on February 25, 2023. PHOTO | FRANCIS NDERITU | NMG

One of the classic indicators that a developing economy is growing at a rapid pace, is the omnipresence of traffic jams.

The global pattern in such cases is much the same. While the purchase of a new motor vehicle is a personal decision by the individual who finds that he or she can, at last, afford to buy a car due to improved income, the process of expanding road networks to accommodate the additional traffic on the roads is a government decision.

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