Promoting Public Transport
Public transport has the potential to transport as many, if not more, people than private cars while
at the same time consuming significantly less road space (in the case of on-street systems such as
buses and trams) or without consuming any road space at all (in the case of off-road systems such as
metros and surface rail systems). It is not, however, a panacea. Cities with high levels of public
transport use tend to be very large and many of these large cities still have very high levels of traffic
congestion on their roads.