Since one freight train can carry as much as 280 lorries can, railways can help to limit the rise in road congestion.
Commuters fed up with battling road congestion in their cars have helped boost 1999's motorcycle sales to their highest level for 17 years, by abandoning four wheels for two.
The Transport Committee has its last session on the traffic management inquiry (how do you knock utility company heads together to limit holes in the road and curb congestion without road pricing etc...).
It will connect Staplegrove Road to Priory Bridge Road and aims to ease congestion in Taunton town centre.
The NIDR will connect Staplegrove Road to Priory Bridge Road and aims to ease congestion in the town centre.
Paul Givan of the DUP asked about traffic congestion on the A1 road at Hillsborough roundabout in the rush hour.
The road closures led to delays and congestion in the area during rush hour.
In London, meanwhile, where road congestion and air pollution provide a decent argument for using government cash to subsidise rail journeys, there are now serious capacity constraints.
Highland Council said the West Link was needed to ease congestion in the city centre and link up the Southern Distributor Road to the A82.
Although work has been arranged to try and minimise congestion and disruption, there will be some overnight road closures in the first week and later towards the end of the project.
Plans were announced in 2004 for a 14-mile road to ease congestion on the M4 around Newport, between junctions 23 and 29.
It might succeed, but it might also induce businesses to set up in areas where road usage is free, perversely spreading congestion to places where it is not a serious problem now.
In the realm of efficiency, most experts believe road congestion would be reduced if self-drivers populated the roads, thanks to an orderly packing of cars closer to each other than is advisable under human control.
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Global Times says continual aftershocks, severe road congestion and insufficient relief supplies are also hampering the rescue efforts in Lushan and neighbouring counties.
Planners have also expressed concerns over traffic congestion and road safety as well as the project's impact on flood risk, trees in the area, wildlife, landscape, ground stability and potential contamination.
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All told, we spent 4.8 billion hours on the road and bought 1.9 billion more gallons of petrol in 2011 just because of congestion.
Even in the more accessible areas of neighbouring Lushan county, the aid effort has been hampered by road congestion, our correspondent adds.
Do we really want something originally used for talking with people in real-time to alert those at our next meeting we are running late because of road congestion?
Second, a high proportion of taxes on road use and fuel go into general funding, and not to programmes that might help reduce congestion in the local area.
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