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Belfast is a fast growing city in Northern Ireland. The city's culture, shops and tourism is also flourishing but it is not all positive as the traffic levels are growing too. Belfast, like any city, has always had busy rush hour traffic. However, you would never have considered Belfast to now be in the top 10 European cities for traffic congestion. Belfast lies 7th in a recent traffic congestion survey.

Have we become too reliant on cars and not using public transport enough or is it a case of an unreliable public service? Whatever the reason may be it seems that Belfast is now on a par with London and Dublin and more congested than Paris which is 9th.

Worse than Paris? I hear you ask unbelievably. Yes, you read correctly. When people think of driving in Paris they think busy streets and congested roundabouts. Paris is such a big city with a huge population driving through it. How could Belfast ever compare with Paris? The Paris mayor is even considering taking further action to reduce their traffic problems. They are thinking of closing the left bank expressway to all traffic. The hope is that people will start using public transport. But there are fears that this will just cause congestion in other parts of the city.

Belfast won't be bringing in drastic traffic cutting measures in the near future. People will just have to get used to the fact that traffic jams in Belfast are a fact of life.

With increased traffic jams we will see increased levels of stress. Whenever stress levels go up then the chances of having an accident multiply. Combine this stress and frustration with the increased amount of traffic on the roads and car accidents are much more likely. This is when you need to be sure that you have a great car insurance policy to protect you. You might not be able to solve the traffic congestion problem but you can make sure that your car is well insured.