Let's see the figures

Councillor Ray Newell, the cabinet member for Community Safety, Enforcement and Emergency Planning, who is also fluent in Cantonese, takes critics of the BBI to task when he details his party's steps to reduce traffic congestion in Boston.
He cites the controversial Into Town bus service as one innovation which "has reduced cars on Boston's roads."
In traditional Chinese, we believe this is rendered 減少了汽車對波士頓的道路
Whilst we don't doubt that traffic will have been reduced, a large number of the passengers are clearly non-drivers who are travelling free of charge, and it would be interesting to see Councillor Newell's statement backed up by concrete survey figures, so we could determine whether the cost of the scheme is worth the effort.However, aside from continued lobbying, the BBI now seems to have ground to a halt as far as continuing the work it started to ease the town's traffic problems.
What's needed now is action in Liquorpond Street and Queen Street, where the sequencing of the traffic lights causes major problems at certain times by unnecessarily creating delays.
Drivers sit and fume as traffic snakes back from the Liquorpond Street roundabout while little or no traffic uses either Broadfield Street and George Street. And attention is also needed at the junction with Fitness First and ASDA.
These are problems that can be eased, and we hope that instead of resting on its somewhat wilted laurels, the BBI gets on and does something about it.

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