近期，中国一座总投资10亿建成的大桥，因为造价低，引起了英美网友的热议，国外网友纷纷为中国造桥技术点赞。
与此同时，在大洋彼岸的美国纽约也迎来了新一条地铁线路的开通。然而不幸的是，这条修建了100多年、耗资45亿美元的地铁在通车半小时后就发生了信号故障，一度引起当地居民的疯狂吐槽。挤地铁挤公交仿佛已经变成了日常，交通问题也火到了ets。
今天来分析一下这两道独立写作，如果是这样的题目你能否hold住？
What do you think we should do to reduce the use of cars or other vehicles in order solve the traffic problems ?
Many cities have traffic congestions (traffic jams). What do you think a city should do to deal with traffic jams and why?
首先，这次的考试题目想必让很多同学当即懵了三分钟，虽然题意交代得很清楚，重点明确地提到了solve the traffic problems/ deal with traffic jams。可是，交通除了堵还能写个啥？
下面来看看有关于交通的话题的语料来积攒一些经验吧~
别忘记了文末的自测题目哦~ 一天天积累可以收获很多~
China’s 50-lane traffic jam is every commander’s worst nightmare.
1. Traffic might be the single worst aspect of our transportation system today. Traffic hurts our economy, damage our environment, create unnecessary street, and keeps us from our friends and family.
2. Statistics indicate that American will spend over 3,000 hours of their life in traffic. That means the entire country is less productive.
3. India loses billions rupees to traffic jams.
堵车不仅浪费时间浪费金钱，还破坏环境，阻断我们和基友的见面，拉低整个国家的生产力。
turn the nightmare into reality be stranded on 滞留
merge from...to... 合并
backup 阻塞
gridlock 交通大堵塞；僵局
on the stretch between A and B A和B中间的一段
staggering 令人难以相信的，巨大的
fender-benders (a minor collision between motor vehicles) 轻微车祸
ride-sharing 拼车
congestion 拥堵
intersection 交点
break the gridlock 疏通堵塞
ride-hailing apps 打车软件
at scale 大规模的
game-changer 改变游戏规则的人或物
hold back 阻止…(发展)
follow suit 照做
lose time to sth. 因什么消耗时间
strangle the potential for 束缚...的潜能
open up possibilities for 为...提供可能性
depressed home values 贬低房价
encumber 阻碍，堵塞
解决方案一：通过增加基础建设鼓励自行车出行
City planners need to start to thread bicyclists into the fabric of street infrastructure, so that sensors keep track of cyclists and traffic signals allocate cycles to cyclists.
解决方案二：增加单行线
A one-way street carrying car traffic off the Steel Bridge meets Interstate Avenue, a major two-way arterial that feeds into a nearby Transit Center.
同时：会给自行车出行者带来好处
The one-way system also enables heavy bike traffic from three different separated bike paths that rejoin the grid at that point. The bike traffic that flows onto the road there, for example, gets its own phase in the signal cycle, allowing it to cross diagonally from path to on-street bike lane in a single motion, an unusual movement that’s clearly indicated by pavement markings and dedicated signage.
And yet, the intersection has a stellar safety record, as well as a red light compliance rate of 99.4 percent among people riding bikes, making it perhaps the most respected traffic signal in all of North America.
解决方案三：增加更多可行线路
The problem is as simple as an old-school word problem: Jack in his red car and Jill in her blue car need to get from home to work at 9:00 am. There’s only one road with room for one car. How can Jack and Jill both get to work on time?
Reality is not that much more complicated than the above example, and the great part is that the solution is also really simple: smart lanes everywhere.
建设smart lanes三部曲：
The idea of ending traffic might sound too good to be true, but it’s as simple as three key steps.
Based on local traffic data across the country, city, and regional governments should classify specific streets and highways as smart lanes.
Next, a federal infrastructure fund should be created to provide grants to those cities and states that establish eligible smart lane infrastructure sufficient to eliminate traffic.
Last, the recipients should re-invest all funds generated by these smart lanes back into hard infrastructure like roads and bridges, creating jobs, as well as into public transit, using the smart lanes to give buses faster travel times and further increase accessibility.
thread…into… 把…穿（装，插）入…，把...考虑其中
the fabric of street infrastructure 街道基础建设的的基本结构
keep track of 了解...的动态
intersection 交叉口，十字路口
bike commute （骑自行车）的上下班路程
arterial road 公路干线，主干路
compliance （对规则、协议和要求的）服从，听从
scrutiny 彻底的检查
one-way street 单行道
stellar safety record 良好的安全记录
diagonal 对角的，斜角的
asphalt 沥青，柏油
sidewalk 人行道
ramp 人造斜坡；支路
queue up 排队等候
run the red light 闯红灯
1. A （单行道）carrying car traffic off the Steel Bridge meets Interstate Avenue.
2. City planners need to start to （把骑自行车的人考虑其中)）the fabric of street infrastructure, so that sensors （了解….的动态） cyclists and traffic signals allocate cycles to cyclists.
3. Next, a federal infrastructure fund should be created to （提供资金） to those cities and states that establish eligible smart lane infrastructure sufficient to eliminate traffic.
1. one-way street
2. thread bicyclists into；keep track of
3. provide grants
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