However, the use of red light cameras has resulted in more tickets being issued to motorist rather than providing safety. There has been rising controversy over the recent installment of photo enforced traffic light cameras for this reason. Red light cameras do not improve traffic safety, in fact they are only installed to generate revenue and have increased accidents. Supporters of the cameras claim they increase safety and reduce accidents. However, opponents argue the cameras only bring in revenue for cities and do not prevent accidents.
1st draft of the essay There’ve been always an argument between the benefits of commuting with public transit and cars. The famous saying, “Haste makes waste” makes this topic very clear. As America is a commuter culture, people need to find the most beneficial way to commute. According to the article “The Bus, a Modern Panacea” by Lester Detroit, student should take the bus more seriously because it could solve many individual, local and global problems. The author states that commuting with public transit has more benefits than driving a car each day to school.
This attracts more residents triggering the increase of Sydney’s population. Centralized shopping and increased parking space also attract incoming residents. However, the development of lower density areas place strain on the cities infrastructure as the majority of the employment is centred closer to Sydney’s CBD, therefore easy transport to and from the area is essential. Future trends in Sydney’s outskirts include housing plots getting smaller in order to accommodate the city’s growing population as well as
These p-plate laws are affective in reducing accidents on the road, because they reduce p-plate drivers to a low speed as well as slow cars. Peer pressure is another important factor which can cause accidents on the road. The current laws help to reduce peer pressure, by not allowing p-plate drivers under the age of 25 no more than one passenger at a time under the age of 21 between the hours of 11pm and 5am. This p-plate law helps in reducing peer pressure related accidents, because it stops overcrowded cars and distractions from friends, which allows the driver to focus only on the road. Lastly, Drivers safety is an important issue within the current p-plate
However, when decentralisation occurs, urban centres suffer many negative impacts. Urbanisation is the process of inner city functions and powers dispersing and redistributing away out of city to more sparse areas, usually on rural-urban fringe. Manchester is a particular city that has both suffered from decentralisation, but has also been somewhat successful in its attempt to tackle this issue. During the 1950’s, shops located in the city centre tended to only sell high order goods such as furniture and jewelry, attracting customers from all around and from out of the city, whereas shops selling low order goods like food were found local to individual neighbor hoods. At the start of the 1970’s, shops began to move and spread away from the CBD to areas on the outskirts of the city.
The result is that events occurring thousands of miles away can now have an almost immediate impact on us. Globalisation has many causes, some of them are; communications technology, mass media and cheap air travel. Held et al suggest the globalisation of crime has led to an increasing interconnectedness of crime across national borders; this has brought about the spread of transnational organised crime, creating new opportunities for crime and new means of committing crime. For example the computerisation of financial markets enables vast amounts of capital to be transferred each day from one side of the world to the other, with sometime devastating effects on national economies. Also, Manuel Castells (1998) argues because of globalisation there is a globalised criminal economy worth £1 trillion.
(2) Police can become more responsive to the citizens they protect and serve. Crime rates would be reduced. (3) Local municipalities could incur cost savings by reducing the number of police officers on staff. (4) Local communities and neighborhoods less served by police could begin to receive better support (i.e. greater response times, stronger police presence through more frequent drive-through and armed foot patrols in neighborhoods, etc.).
Some examples would be public transit. Only 50% to 75% of operating cost are covered by public transit fares, an increase in transit fares would only be efficient and equal if automobile users paid a charge reflecting their social cost. What might reduce automobile use and encourage public transit use is policy changes such as higher municipal parking fees and licensing. Police services are mostly funded from general local revenues; to increase the policing cost they could enforce fines on those who fail to lock their cars, residential, commercial, or industrial buildings which encourage criminal behaviour. If libraries imposed a user charge per visit they could generate more money but this can’t be done because of the Public Library Act.
One of these methods is congestion charges, London adopted this method meaning any vehicle owner who wants to drive into the CBD must pay a charge to do so, this has been successful and since 2003, there has been a 15% reduction in traffic and emissions in the congestion zone. To further the reduction of traffic in London, it also introduced pedestrianized zones at certain times, and permanently pedestrianized zones, this does reduce pollution as there is less cars, however, shops may receive fewer customers as people can only get to them on foot. Another scheme is public transport improvements, although these are often criticised as being expensive, they are evidently very effective; Manchester’s metro link cost over £1 billion ,however it did succeed in taking 2.6 million cars of the road. Other examples of improvement include, improved bus services, park and ride schemes and tram networks, all of which reduce pollution by having less cars on the road. Mexico City took these schemes to the next level by banning drivers from using their cars one weekday per week, based on their number plate, massively reducing the amount of cars.
With that said, METRO and the Houston elites should come together to provide a public transportation system which covers a large distance of travel to reduce the amount of people and cars on the highways at one time. In order to make that so, highways and Houston citizens should be able to sacrifice one lane for METRO to place a train car that goes from highway to highway rather than from street to street. For Houstonians, it is hard to believe that one will give up their car for a bus ticket, but if the train proves to be a solid, reliable form of transportation, there is a chance for certain