Good evening everyone.

各位晚上好。

My name's Phil Sutton, and I'm chairman of the Highways Committee.

我是Phil Sutton，是路政委员会的主席。

We've called this meeting to inform members of the public about the new regulations for traffic and parking we're proposing for Granford.

我们召集这次会议的目的是通知公众我们为Granford提出的交通和停车的新规定。

I'll start by summarising these changes before we open the meeting to questions.

我会先总结新交规中的变动，然后接受提问。

So, why do we need to make these changes to traffic systems in Granford?

那么，为什么我们需要对Granford的交通系统做出这些改变呢？

Well, we're very aware that traffic is becoming an increasing problem.

是这样的，我们非常清楚交通正在成为一个日益严重的问题。

It's been especially noticeable with the increase in heavy traffic while they've been building the new hospital.

在建造新医院的同时，交通量的增加尤为明显。

But it's the overall rise in the volume of traffic of all kinds that's concerning us.

但我们所担心的是各种交通总量的整体增长。

To date there's not been any increase in traffic accidents, but that's not something we want to see happen, obviously.

截止目前，车祸的发生率没有增加。当然，交通事故也不是我们想要看到的事情。

We recently carried out a survey of local residents, and their responses were interesting.

我们最近对当地居民进行了调查，他们的回答很有意思。

People were very concerned about the lack of visibility on some roads due to cars parked along the sides of the roads.

由于汽车停在道路两边，人们非常担心一些路段行人或者车辆的视野受阻。

We'd expected complaints about the congestion near the school when parents are dropping off their children or picking them up, but this wasn't top of the list, and nor were noise and fumes from trucks and lorries, though they were mentioned by some people.

我们原以为居民会对家长加送孩子导致学校附近路段拥堵的情况有意见，但是这并不是他们反映最强烈的问题。货车和卡车的噪音和尾气也不是，尽管有人提到过这些问题。

We think these new traffic regulations would make a lot of difference.

我们认为这些新的交通规则将会产生很大影响。

But we still have a long way to go.

但我们还有很长的路要走。

We've managed to keep our proposals within budget, just, so they can be covered by the Council.

我们已经设法将我们的提案保持在预算范围内，所以这件事的费用可以由理事会承担。

But, of course, it's no good introducing new regulations if we don't have a way of making sure that everyone obeys them, and that's an area we're still working on with the help of representatives from the police force.

当然，如果我们不能确保每个人都遵守规定，那么引入新的规定也无济于事了，我们正在警方代表的帮助下努力解决这方面的问题。