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This City Will Stop Registering Cars From Next Year
Singapore will ban additional car registration from 2018.
To curb over-congestion in the tiny city-state of Singapore, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will ban additional cars on its roads starting February 2018.
The LTA announced it would cut its permitted vehicle growth rate from 0.25 percent per year to 0 percent. The government of Singapore said it would review the move in 2020. The ban in registering new cars by Singapore is attributed to land scarcity and billions of dollars in planned public transport ventures.
Singapore controls its vehicle population by setting an annual growth rate and through a system of bidding for the right to own and use a car for a limited number of years.
LTA said, "In view of land constraints and competing needs, there is limited scope for further expansion of the road network,"
The authorities will review the ban in 2020, but for the next few years, Singapore's 5.6 million people will have to utilize the current 600,000 total private and rental vehicle, though drivers can still replace their old vehicles with new ones.
This doesn't apply to goods vehicles and buses, which will retain a 0.25 percent growth rate.
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India should take a leaf out of the approach by Singapore and stop registering new vehicles till there is balance in the ratio between available land and the use of cars and bikes on the roads. It will help the environment as well as address the issue of heavy traffic on Indian roads.
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