• Fuel loss • Loss of pay for employees • Loss of life due to not reaching hospital in time • Increased road accidents due to over speed taken to make up the lost time • Increased carbon dioxide emission • More atmospheric pollution • More diseases due to increased pollution • Increased mental tension for passengers • Increased cost of doing business How to reduce Traffic Congestion • Infrastructure development • Introduction of Smart Parking in Bus Stand • Widening of busy roads • Provide Exclusive Lanes for Public Transport • Develop waterways wherever possible • Expand Railway network • Implement Metro Rails in Mithapur area • Use Regulations and Traffic Engineering to Control Traffic - Parking Restrictions - Turn Restrictions - Loading Restrictions Use Innovative Ideas to Reduce Traffic Impacts on Public Transport • Queue bypasses: These are short sections of exclusive roadway located near an intersection that enable transit vehicles to bypass congestion at the intersection. • Queue jumps: These are queue bypass physical improvements with the addition of change in traffic signal timing that enables transit vehicles to start ahead of private vehicles—essentially jumping ahead of them. • Real time public transport lanes: These are lanes that use real time traffic control devices (for example, changeable message signs) to clear street lanes for public transport vehicles exactly when the PT vehicles are present; when PT vehicles are not present the lanes are free for use by any traffic.