Topic: The best way for governments to solve the problem of traffic congestion is providing free public transport in 24 hours per day, and seven days a week.
Commuters around the world waste a couple of hours of lifetime per day due to traffic jam. Many people laud public transport as the best solution to this problem. Convenient and affordable as they are, bus and metro do not seem to appeal many travelers for many reasons. Thus, in this essay, I would argue that providing free public transport 24/24 the whole week does not make much sense.
Firstly, it can be seen that the fares of bus and underground are always very cheap in comparison with those of taxi or coach, which indicates that using public vehicles free would not make an better appeal to people. Besides, it is undeniable that the main cause many people do not want to use bus or metro is the sensitive inconvenience like inevitable touch among users when the vehicle is crowded at peak time. Worse is the sex abuse against women that makes traveling by public vehicles like a nightmare.
Moreover, making public transportation free and available for everybody everytime requires as a huge state budget as we need to upgrade transportation infrastructure, buy much more vehicles and take on new employees. Instead, we could spend money on running campaigns that raise citizens' awareness of the contribution they have made to current traffic congestion. Government should propagandize more about traveling together in a vehicle, using public transport whenever possible and so on. The government should impose higher environment tax on cars and motors as well.
By way of conclusion, environmental-friendly public transportation may be, they remain quite uncomfortable and disahvantaged in some aspects. Therefore, I believe that policy makers and the authorities should come up with more alternatives as traffic congestion is unlikely to be solved in a forseeable future.
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