Should
governments spend more money on improving roads and highways, or should
governments spend more money on public transportation? Some hold the view that governments
should spend more money to improve on road and highways because they firmly
believe that the policy will save a lot of time for people who have cars and that
one of the cause of global warming and destroying nature is them. Other say Transportation
is one of the major fields that governments need to invest and to get economy
better. It is a hard decision
to governments when they have only limited money to allocate. After pondering
it from several aspects, personally, I think governments should spend money on public transportation.
First
of all, I believe that improving
roads and developing highways around the city actually expands the city space
and many cars and vehicles can make a detour to avoid the heavy traffic within
the city in the rush hours.
But, in some senses, it is more important than the former. Public
transportation if improving, it will surely decrease traffic jams. It
is efficient, when used in a country with high population density, such as
Indonesia. When every family occupied its own cars, you can imagine what a jams
roads will be. As
we know, the public transportation, such as bus, trains and subways, have a
great capability and the most important form of
transportation in the city. By public transportation system, people can reach
any place easily. So
it is very important to improve the public transportation, which allow the
urban infrastructure run effectively and the decrease of private
vehicles is an effective way to solve this problem. On the other hand, improving
roads and highway is also helpful to solve the problem. However, if the public
transportation is not improved, the dramatically increasing in private cars
will comprise the advantage of more roads and highways.
Secondly, developed the public transportation
provide a great number of ways for poor people who can not buy a car. Public
transportation is that developing it saves money and is more efficient.
Compared with the expenditure on improving roads and highways, developing
public transportation needs less money. While the city grows bigger and bigger
today, a well developed public transportation system helps people save the time
that they spend on way. However,
improving the public transportation can help the majority. On the other hand,
for example, if give money to improve the road and highway, there will be more
cars and can definitely cause the traffic jam. I believe that
increasing the number of roads and highway force us to destroy our beautiful
nature because of their character of needing broad place. So, they are not
helpful to us at all.
The
third, Improving public transportation provides more convenience in
transportation and, in turn, facilities cutting the number of private
transportation vehicles, so will produce less pollution. When more people are
attracted to the public transportation, provided it is better than it is today
due to enough funds, It is well know that the gas emitted from the cars is the
major reason to cause acid rain and green-house effect, which threat our normal
life more and more. Protecting the environment is one important role for
governments.
In conclusion, improving
public transportation is the better way to effectively solve the problems of
pollution and traffic jam, also increasing the economy of the city and improve
living qualities of people of the city than improving roads and highways.
People all over the world can have the idea of advancing economic growth with
maintaining our nature. For realizing it, governments should spend more money
on making the stream of public transportation fast as soon as possible. Spending money on public
transportation to improve the bus, train and subway not only can decrease the
traffic jam but also can give more way of transportation to poor.
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