[straight news network Beijing June 16 hearing] (Xinhua) after the media repeatedly pressed the parking fees chaos unanswered, Beijing to ease urban congestion but also charge a congestion charge. Recently, Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPPCC held the haze governance proposals for consultation on the news, the Beijing Municipal Traffic Committee shall, jointly with the municipal development and Reform Commission, the Environmental Protection Bureau, Public Security Traffic Management Bureau and other departments, has been initially developed the Beijing traffic congestion charging policy options and technical scheme, currently group fabric further in-depth research and demonstration.

Congestion charge refers to the economic means to charge a certain fee for road users in some area during the traffic jam session. The truth sounds awkward writing is actually very simple: which block which charges when plugging when charging.

On the one hand, this money is the use of economic levers leveraging motorists to avoid the hot sections, or to switch to public transportation method. On the other hand, the conventional understanding, use of congestion fee will also use to ease traffic congestion. But in Beijing City, a lot of so-called "conventional plugging point" is actually the only way in daily traffic". And these "only way" is really just because of the congestion caused by the car?

With Beijing North Sanhuan Suzhouqiao from north to south of the road, for example, almost every day will block the blocking point and the road from north to south in just 900 meters in length, from the original 3 Lane differentiation to overpass bridge sections 1 Lane, with driver as saying, "do not block is odd". In Beijing, such as the planning is not reasonable and very difficult to modify the section of the road can be found everywhere.

Guide the vehicle to avoid blocking point, also need to allow vehicles to have options, the money in no way optional congestion charge and highway have why to distinguish from the urban planning is not reasonable lead to congestion point of view, the congestion charge and can be understood as put taxpayers on the hook for the worst of the urban public service pay. And this inadvisable plan caused by congestion, also prove that the we cannot be of low efficiency of urban operation "sin", simply boils down to "car" up.

In addition, another purpose of congestion charges is to reduce the intensity of the use of motor vehicles, driving people to use public transport. But combined with the actual situation of public transport in Beijing, the subway, buses and other public transport in the peak of the congestion level has become the work of the suffering of the journey. Continue to increase the congestion intensity, passengers under extreme or vehicle scheduling ability can reach the need for scientific explanation? And the reason. In fact, we all know, is workplace highly clustered in the inner city, lead to internal and external tide of traffic of city of day after day, root knot defects of urban planning does not solve. Now, once the congestion charge, will guide the use of public transport vehicles to use public transport, when the number of public resources suddenly increased, the original user will feel the loss of their public interest.