The best way for governments to solve the problem of traffic congestion is to provide free public transport in 24 hours per day, and seven days a week. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

From my perspective, while I accept that the government should raise funds for public transport to give free bus passes with a purpose to reduce rush-hour traffic jams. I would argue that they should put some limits on this projection.

On the one hand, it is a good idea to give free bus passes to a wide variety of students. First, it allows them to speed up journey time to the workplace, in particular, rush hour traffic jams happen regularly in city center. To illustrate, it helps students from all walks of life to have access to public transport, reducing environmental contamination as well as raising the awareness of people about protecting the environment. Second, governments have a tendency to invest in transport infrastructure to upgrade and expand public transport provision, which enables people to commute to work at any time. Additionally, it allows them to off-peak travel lessening commuting times.

On the other hand, I believe that in some poor countries like Africa, governments do not have enough expenditure on developing transport infrastructure. To illustrate, they have to campaign for many organizations all over the world to raise funds. Therefore, they do not have capable of subsidizing the cost of fares. Furthermore, there are many ways of easing traffic flows like imposing an official ban on many transportations. For instance, for those who drive while intoxicated or congestion charge. In addition, install speed cameras to control the speed of different transportations allowing them to grind to a halt which leads to eliminating traffic congestions and accidents.

To sum up, I believe there are many ways to reduce traffic congestions instead of giving free bus passes to a wide variety of people in some particular geographical areas in order to reduce traffic jams.