The city's drivers could be familiar with the annoyance of waiting in an unbounded jam on the road. The feeling could be escalated ending up with finding the root- two drivers are locking horns in the middle of all the chaos because one runs into another.
The road debate, for everyone'e favor, will be prohibited from 1 September on. A press release was given by Suzhou Public Security Bureau on 20 August to publicate the Rapid Processing Procedures of Minor Accidents of Vehicles, according to which accident disputes on the road that lead to the traffic congestion could be punished.
Now, it seems that the imputaion of the city's traffic problems goes to the rail construction that breaks the surface of Ganjiang Road and won't be finished until 2012. However, statistics from the police authorities suggest the otherwise. More than 250 thousand accidents happened on roads in the city proper in 2007, or there occured almost 700 accidents a day last year, most of which are fender benders that only produced minor damage but huge traffic congestion. Because most of the accidents happened on urban arterial roads and people involved always tried to stay to settle the dispute on their own instead of drawing back at the first moment, big jams, and sometimes traffic tie-ups, were consequentially triggered off.
According to the Procedures,