Saturday, February 2, 2008

English 3 Activity 2 Traffic Jams

Watch those drivers! Avoid those traffic jams!


As the number of cars on the highways increases, driving manners seem to change. Two things that seems to annoy most of us are impolite drivers and getting stuck in traffic jams.
What is your opinion about traffic in your city? What are your suggestions to solve some of these traffic problems?, should there be more restrictions? Any more creative ways to go around the city?

Reading:
http://www.topics-mag.com/edition11/tick-off-traffic.htm
Indirect questions:
http://www.1-language.com/englishcourse/unit66_grammar.htm

New Interchange Student's book Unit 2 Practice:
www2.cambridge.org/interchangearcade/listtypes.do?level=2&unit=2&stage=1


43 comments:

Unknown said...

cartagena is a very small city, for that reason there is not a lot of traffic. but, when the vacations comes... the traffic is a chaos....
a lot of cars of another cities come here to enjoy the season and for that reason, the Mayor's office imposes restrictions and the result of that is traffics flows without problems!!!.

Unknown said...

i think in cartagena there are too many cars and the city is too small, for that reason there is too much traffic and because of that there are too many accidents in the streets.
i think a solution for that problem is there should be more streets.

Unknown said...

well, i think that there is too much traffic in other cities of Colombia than in Cartagena, but nowadays with the construction of TRANSCARIBE we are suffer too much. besides, with the expansion of the self-propelled industry there are too many cars in the city that increase the problem.
the solution is there should be end TRASCARIBE quickly.

Unknown said...

in cartagena there are too much traffic, because de city is very very small. In vacations we are visiting many tourists and this makes traffic increase.
the solution is there should be more restrictions, new streets and license restrictions.
katherine campo fuentes

Anonymous said...

cartagena is a small city.
have so many cars and motorcycle, but sometimes in some parts forms a chaos and a lot traffic by reason as the construction of Transcaribe, Bazurto market, mototaxi and another more.
the solution for this problem should be licence retriction and more efficiency of Mayor's office

Unknown said...

i think that cartagena is a city that have so many ¨motaxis¨ and this is the aspect that became`s cartagena in a very congestionated place, also we have so few aveniues and the principal street is in construction and for this reason the traffic makes more complicated
the solution is over quickly the ¨transcaribe¨and make more restrictions for the ¨mototaxis¨

Alejandro Salgado Baldovino said...

Hello, teacher my name is Alejandro Salgado, and my opinio about the traffic of my city is that, is one of the biggest problems of the city, because the lot of cars, and trasportations, affect to the city in a ambiental part, that affect to all the people here, the pollution y a big trouble in this moment and in the future..... my suggestons are: the parking cars, because there are a fewer cars... the transcaribe i think taht is good too, restrictions, and the most important the help of all the peolpe of cartagena,, that with our minds, we can change many things... Alejandro Salgado

Anonymous said...

These restrinciones that the mayor imposes seem to me likely, it is a way of protecting the city of so many accidents, in addition there is controlled the environment of so many pollution. Since the principal ones affected of this pollution are the children, in addition it becomes impossible to pass along this city if a great traffic. cindy angulo 0714030

Anonymous said...

Cartagena is a city where there are too many motorcycles.
the should be more restrictions that make the city passable and there do not happen so many accidents that one results in great proportion for the mototaxis.

In addition the movilidad has met affected by the construction of the massive transport that has led to the automoteres and motorcycles to taking alternate routes where they present very much traffic.

FRANCISCO PANESSO CARRERA

Anonymous said...

In my oppinion, In our city, Cartagena, there're so much traffic because of the mototaxis, which have become more and more everyday. So, there have to be restrictions to help our city work well, and the major has imposed "pico y placa" in order to regulate the traffic in Cartagena and help people drive in a way more comfortable.

JULIO MARTINEZ

Anonymous said...

My opinion about traffic in Cartagena is that the city is too small and there are too many cars, busses, motorcicles etc, that daily affect the city with pollution in the environment. Other problem that the city have is too many cars parked on the streets.

I think that the solution is that the government needs to build more highways for thus reduce the traffic in Cartagena and also diminish the contamination with less cars in the city.

Karen Sofia Gonzalez group:F

Anonymous said...

In Cartagena, the traffic of vehicles congested is one of the most serious urban problems, causer of a high number of dead men and of a permanent disturbance of the tranquility.

To face it, the local authorities have come to the deterministic strategies that not only have been ineffective but they have helped to complicate more the problem, as if the traffic was treating itself about a phenomenon with invariable reasons in the time.
The buses that stop every five meters, the collective taxis that now imitate them and the mototaxis - whose drivers have showed to be the champions in disobeying all the procedure of traffic-, and we will have the pandemonium that we suffer every day.
I think that a serious solution that the authorities give mas attention to this problem creating mas restrictions to the traffic and improving this service for the social well-being

HEIDI URUETA RANGEL t00017784

Anonymous said...

I think that the principal problem of Cartagena city is the poverty, the low level of education and the pollution. In cartagena also there are big problems with the public transportation, The buses in circulation are in poor condition and there are too many mototaxis and traffic congestion.
The solution for that problem there should be more organization and restrictions for the mototaxis. other solution there should be alternative routes.
JESSICA GARAVITO AREVALO

Anonymous said...

cartagena is one take care very important for the country, i tink too much trafic, dou to teh evil real condicion and to that there are many cars and motorcicles. I tink teh solution is to arrange te streets, to create the day wuthout car and to education the peolple to avoid de accdidents...
ANDREA DIAZ A.

Anonymous said...

i think that the trafic in cartagena is a chaos.there is one of the biggest problem in the city because there is a small city and in caratgena there are many cars. The drivers are very irresponsible.
i think that the local goverment need to build more highways. too we need more responsable police oficcers....and end ranscaribe quickli!
vanessa angulo carvajal 0712012

Anonymous said...

In cartagena there are too much trafic, because is a little city and now are many buildings in constuction.
Other reason is like cartagena is a turistic place and comes too many people, and all is chaos.
the solution of this problem should be making more streets and more highways.
arturo martinez
cod 0712005 group fl

Anonymous said...

in cartagena it's hard to drive because exist to many cars and few ways. there are to many motos which don't respct and drive as they want, and the people feel so much feor when they walk on the streets.
the drivers feel to much desperation when they go of one site to other and is worse if the journey its's to long.
the cartagena government should money inversion in the roads.
the people shoul use lees cars and walk to avoid the trafic.

.. sindy florez..

Anonymous said...

The traffic is terrible in Cartagena , because there are many cars and motorcycle taxis, which do not allow the buses pass comfortably on the roads of the city, there are also many old buses that are damaged on the track and make traffic worse, the better way to end this is to implement higher fines on drivers who do not leave vehicles every day, also put more traffic policemen on the roads and especially order by drivers.
lisseth romero grupo f

Anonymous said...

Cartagena is a city with a traffic impossible, the drivers are very imprudent when driving and in many opportunities they don't respect the signs of traffic, a solution to be able improve this problem is apply more drastic sanctions to the conductive infractors.

Adrián Alberto Nájera Dovale
0611451

Anonymous said...

cartagena is a city with definetly alot of traffic, it´s so impossible to drive around here, the motorcycle are always on our way same thing the buses, and this causes alot of accidents most of the time. I think they should build more roads.

yesi said...

THE INCREASE OF THE CONSTRUCTION, THE MOTOTAXIS AND THE CARS HAVE GENERATED A DUSTY ENVIRONMENT IN CARTAGENA, THERE IS TOO MUCH POLLUTION.
ADDED TO THAT THERE IS A FEW AVENUE AND TOO MUCH TRAFFIC.
TO CONFRONT THIS PROBLEM THERE SHOULD BE MUCH CIVIL CULTURE AND MORE RESTRICTIONS.
O,K HUGO BYE...

Anonymous said...

Catagena is a city very small and there are too many cars, there is too much traffic.This problem is very important, cause too much pollution. And I think the city should provide more streets.
Forget this problem cartagena is a beautiful and interesting city.

Jeniffer Nova 0611022

Anonymous said...

kelly rivera 0717037
I think that CARTAGENA has very big trouble because there are too many cars for a really small city, that is the reason there is too much traffic. i think cartagena need more subway lines and less Tolls as a solution.

Jose Romero said...

The biggest problem our City has is the deficiency of ways that compared with the amount of cars is not enough.

Otherwise the roads that the city already has are in real bad situation. That´s why i propose the following suggestions to improve the traffic problem in Cartagena.

<1> A Subway with the enoung capacity to take a lot of people through the most crowded places on the city.

<2>The "Pico y placa", the sistem that does´t allow all the cars to go out the same day, so the traffic wouldn´t be too hard.

<3>The elimination of the "Mototaxis", just with this change we could avoid a lot of accidents that happends everyday.

In conclution there´s a lot of ways to improve the traffic situation in our city but there are also some other bigger problems that we should solve first: like the corruption, that actually is the cause of the ineficcient plublic construccion and the bad public transportation.

By Jose Romero COD 0501455

Anonymous said...

francisco pineda 0514503

I THINK THAT THE CITY NEEDS MORE TRAFFIC POLICE MAN AND THE MAYOR SHOULD USE MORE SEMAPHORE THEN THERE SHOULD BE LESS POLLUCTION CARTAGENA HAS TOO MANY CARS THAT IS ANOTHER PROBLEM, BECAUSE THERE IS ENOUGH STREET THAT IS WAY I SAID DAD THE SOLUTION IS LESS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.

Nathalia Chavez said...

well, i think that in our city there are many motorcycles...(mototaxis), this causes many traffic accidents.
When they leave work, occurs much traffic...many cars, buses, trucks and motorcycles.
Then I think that a solution could be:
-Restrictions on motorcycles(mototaxis)
-More transit cops
-More parking
Natalia Chavez Ceden

EUNI... said...

MY OPINION ABOUT THE TRAFFIC IN CARTAGENA IS THAN THIS CITY IS VERY SMALL FOR THAT HAVE TOO MANY CARS IN THE STREETS.THE TRAFFIC IS REALLY A COMPLICATION. I THINK THAN THERE SHOULD BE MORE RESTRICTIONS WITH THE MOTOTAXIS AND BUSES BECAUSE THERE HAVE TOO MANY.
I THINK THAT THE AUTHORITIES SHOULD GIVE MORE ATTENTION TO THIS PROBLEM.

EUNICE JIMENEZ ATENCIA
GRUPO:F

Anonymous said...

cartagena is a small city and dont have good alternative route for the traffic, for this reason movement for the city, this is other problem that cartagena have, and this contributes to bad traffic.

I think, that the solution for the bad traffic in cartagena, is not the construction of a transcaribe, if the construction of more alternative ways to speed up traffic in the city and the construction of roads exclusively motocycles, this would solve some traffic problems.

ADRIANA DOMINGUEZ 0716502

Anonymous said...

In Cartagena there is too much pollution `couse of the lot of cars, buses, and mototaxis. Thr goberment should impose more restrictions to that kind of vehicles. And in another way, people in my city should be more carefull in the highways. so, my city would be better. Jhorland Ayala Garcia

Anonymous said...

cartagena is a very small city and the traffic is one of the big problems. I think that there are too many mototaxis whit fewer restrictions and there´re more taxis every day this create more pollution and caos in the city. there should be less nototaxis and more restricdions fot that.

MARY PAZ SILVA T00018916

Anonymous said...

well i think that cartagena is a beatifull city
"i love my city".
cartagena needs more order about the trash in the beach also we need to know that tehe trash is a big problem in our city
the gomerment hjave to put some program in t.v. in every channel that the embairhoment is in problem.
i mean the problem is many fishes and other animals are death right now for the contamination.
we have to think about the problem because some time we drop the trash on the street,beach and any places but not in the rigth side.

"PEOPLE HAVE TO THINK IN CARTAGENA OUR CITY.WE WOULD LOVE IT BECAUSE IS OUR HOME". END but aloso the begining.

Anonymous said...

Cartagena is a very unsafe city, it has too much robbery and violations, it should have more security, more in public places like the beach.
JAQUELINE CEPEDA 0711012

Anonymous said...

teacher hugo...

for my, the main problem of the traffic in cgena is there are too many cars and mototaxis.

i think that the solution for these problem is there should be more streets and more control of the police for the mototaxis.

ESTEFY BALETA RIVERA. GROUP:F

Unknown said...

in cartagena there are too many cars parked on the streets...i think that the control the traffic is necessary to avoid accidents of traffic that to diary happen...
we need more police man judges the city should provide more streets...also we need more parks
solfanny pajaro 0714015

Anonymous said...

These days Cartagena is packed with cars and traffic. With the school shopping season soar and people do not hesitate to go out and buy what they need for their children to go back to school. It is clear that this crowd and crowd is inevitable, like congestion in the center. But what I do not think it is normal that the City Council now make their experiments pedestrianisation. Yes, there are policemen to regulate traffic, but if they are in the Puerta de Murcia, which is closed to traffic on most conflictive, because little is achieved. I think it demonstrates that Cartagena is not ready to make your heart is closed to traffic.

JENNIFER MONSALVE MATURANA COD 0514031

Anonymous said...

TRAFFICKING IN CARTAGENA IT IS VERY VERY COMPLICATED AND RISK AND THAT DUE TO INCREASING THE MOTOTAXIS occurring MANY HAVE AN ACCIDENT. SUPPORT FOR THIS REASON THE DAY BIKE IS NO LESS POLLUTION AND TRAFFIC IS MORE QUIET. DONE FOR ME LIKE KE DAILY OUT WITHOUT MOTORCYCLE ...
TATIANA ZARATE COD 0514019

Unknown said...

I wish that in ours constructed more companies for we have more oportunities of works, so that very complicated and is too delayed to obtain a good employment.

Also I wish taht Cartagena was a city with a better climate, because es very hart and boring to leave with the sun so hot.

Anonymous said...

I wish that in ours city, constructed more companies for we can more oportunities of works, so that he is very complicated and delayed to find a a good job in this Cartagena.
Also I wish taht in Cartagena was not as much warm, because is very hart and boring to leave with the hot sun.

Anonymous said...

Cartagena unlike other cities in the country, there is little transited this is due to their size, but also note that despite being little transited is a city where the traffic is congested easily this is that the city does not have an signal siza.Una suitable for a solution to this serious project for the restructuring of roads and a new signal to control this problem.

Anonymous said...

Cartagena is a city of auditive impressive pollution every you see that these in a semaphore the cars activate his woodpeckers in order that the cars advance, this happens for the lack policemen of traffic that you control the traffic in order that it finds a better order in this city so desired by the internacional people

RODRIGO HERNANDEZ ROMAN
07 16 032 - F

Anonymous said...

i think taht we have a big problem about the traffic in our city because one of the problem much is very small fot than much cars in the ways.
the solution taht we have in this moment is very important this consist in beak and plate we find less cars in the ways, neverthless we find to much cars in the avenues.
other solution that need the city is to build to much ways around the city for have a better live when everybody drive in the town.

juan manuel alvarez

Anonymous said...

cartagena is really great, im talking about traffic, my city is great but only in the nigh, because in the day, is diferent.

the problem are mototaxis, there are too much traffic and because of that there are too many accidents in the streets.

i thik this problem, now dont have any solution, because, all day are more the mototaxis

diego mejia
0517008

Anonymous said...

cartagena is very beautiful city but is very small and cartagena have a serious problem with the traffic.

cartagena are too much traffic, because this city have around 20000motorcyle.

other problem are the public service, bus, microbus,etc, they dont respect any transit!s signal

both, the motorcycle and trasportation public, are the principal problem in cartagena, talking about traffic

maria alexandra oyola
0501514