Traffic jams in Asunción and surrounding districts are becoming more frequent and extensive.
Asunción and the metropolitan area entered a phase of unsustainable locomotion, due to the deficient public transport service, which forces people to buy motorcycles or cars for their locomotion. This, in turn, causes traffic jams at peak hours (increasingly longer) that reduce travel speed.
A survey by the INE and the UNDP reveals in numbers, the magnitude of the collapse of the transport system in the capital and surrounding districts that “spill” around 1,500,000 people who enter (and leave) daily to the mother of cities.
Transport Deputy Minister Oscar Stark said the problem is getting worse as time goes on. And that the new administration, with a coyo team is working for the transition, is clear about the situation, to project solutions.
“If we don’t make the changes, it will get worse in the next five years, because as people’s purchasing power increases, there will be more vehicles”the official remarked.
He emphasized an aspect of the survey in question, the one referring to the data that mentions that five years ago, the average speed of transportation in vehicles at peak hours was between 8 to 9 km/hour. And that currently, that has been reduced to 5 kilometers per hour, that is, at the normal pace of a person who moves on foot.
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Stark pointed out that the deficiency of the public transportation system pushes people to resort to personal locomotion, an alternative that leads, in turn, to increasing traffic jams in the capital’s arteries.
“Today we have fewer buses than we had five years ago. The demands that we have from the people are reform and punctuality”, pointed out the Vice Minister of Transportation.
The survey of the National Institute of Surveys and the UNDP, highlight these numbers, on how the citizenship is handled, when moving from one point to another.
Driving car: 29.8%
On foot: 25%
Collective bus: 17%
Passenger car: 12.7%
Motorbike driver: 9.6%
Passenger motorcycle: 2.7%
Ibrt, Muv, Bolt: 2.3%
Bicycle: 0.4%
Taxi: 0.3%
School transport: 0.2%
Company transport: 1.1%
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