Bucharest’s interim mayor Stelian Bujduveanu has warned that traffic congestion remains the capital’s most pressing problem, with 1.7 million vehicles registered in the city and another 300,000 cars entering daily from surrounding areas, News.ro reported. “Half of Bucharest’s 2.1 million residents hold a driver’s license, and while not all two million cars are on the road at the same time, at least one million are circulating daily,” Bujduveanu said in a show at Prima TV. To cope with the heavy traffic, the capital city has doubled the number of police officers deployed at intersections and near schools since the start of the new school year. “Today, there are hundreds of officers on the streets, and traffic is visibly better than before,” the interim mayor said. Public transport, he said, is increasingly becoming a viable alternative, with ridership up by 30% thanks to new tram purchases.