Mixed modes of fast- and slow-moving traffic are a major cause of traffic congestion in expanding cities like Guwahati. The decision by the Regional Transport Authority to prohibit all types of rickshaw movement on 56 roads of the city is a welcome move. The city authorities undertaking a comprehensive survey of different modes of public transport has become an urgent necessity to put an end to the unlimited introduction of all types of rickshaws in the city and fix the number of permits. The primary consideration for granting a permit to ply rickshaw in the city should be public utility and not livelihood. The increasing number of slow-moving traffic in the city can be attributed to the result of taking it as a livelihood option, more particularly people migrating from rural areas. While services provided by the rickshaws in transporting residents from main roads to their residences are essential, they slow down traffic on main roads, adding to the congestion woes. All types of rickshaws, including battery-operated e-rickshaws, also play a crucial role in decarbonising public transport in city byelanes. However, when they slow down other fast-moving traffic of cars, buses, and other motorised transport on busy main roads, such positive impact of reducing carbon emissions gets negated, which needs to be kept in mind while articulating policies. Faster and smoother traffic is critical to making a city smart and residents working in different sectors more productive. Regulation of the movement of rickshaws in the city will produce desired results only when the number of buses and other fast-moving public transport is equally distributed on all main roads. Following horizontal expansion of the city, some newly developed areas do not have bus connectivity, and residents in those areas must depend on personal mobility solutions or on e-rickshaws and other rickshaws for commuting. Without an extension of city bus services to these areas, the demand for personal vehicles such as cars, scooters, and motorbikes to travel to workplaces or other places in the city, or demand for rickshaws for commuting to the nearest bus stop or auto-rickshaw junction, will continue to rise. Apart from horizontal expansion, these areas are also witnessing vertical expansion, and the construction of multi-storied apartments has continued to push the demand for personal vehicles and slow-moving vehicles. As vehicles from these expanded city areas get mixed with the usual traffic on other roads, on busy roads, traffic congestion worsens. Increased fleet of green buses in the city has brightened hopes from reducing vehicular pollution, but expansion of services of these buses to all bus routes is essential to achieve the key objectives behind gradually replacing the old and diesel-run buses. Smart traffic management in an expanding city like Guwahati also requires adequate parking space to increase effective carriageway for faster movement of vehicles. Due to a lack of parking space, owners of personal vehicles park their vehicles along the roadside, which reduces effective carriageway. As major roads have mixed land use of commercial establishments and residential buildings, addressing the parking issue is complicated. The city authorities must ensure that newly expanded areas adhere to land use norms laid down in the city Master Plan. Failure to enforce the land use zoning plan will turn these areas also congested as the old localities. Segregating commercial, official, and residential land use can also significantly influence the regular movement of vehicles in different localities. The traffic along the GS Road, the busiest among all roads, continues to be bumper to bumper during peak hours because land use is mixed with several thousand government employees and a large number of government officials working in the State Secretariat and Assembly Complexes, thousands of students studying in educational institutions along it commuting every day, and along with the growth of many shopping malls and other shops and business establishments, a large number of multi-storeyed residential apartments have been developed, which has spiked the number of all types of vehicles along the road. A strategy adopted by the city authorities to increase effective carriageway in smaller lanes and arterial roads of the city is levelling the pavement space and the road by reconstructing and redesigning the drainage network. While this has created more space for vehicles, it creates barriers for pedestrians with vehicles moving to the pavement area atop the drains to allow passage of other vehicles from the opposite direction. The city traffic authorities must ensure that residents do not park their vehicles on the streets, blocking the pavement. If pedestrians are compelled to walk on the road, then redesigning the drainage system will not lessen traffic congestion on the byways. The move to regulate slow-moving transport on city roads has not been taken for the first time. Lessons must be learnt from the failure to enforce similar regulation in the past to shift the public transport to faster gear in Guwahati.