Should governments spend more money on improving roads and highways, or should governments spend more money on improving public transportation (buses, trains, subways)? Why? Use specific reasons and details to develop your essay.
Many has been argued on the topic of transportation in current large cities. Must governments invest on public transport or on highways and roadways?
Fist of all, we have to consider the issue that roads and highways are a significantly important aspect of the country´s infrastructure. They are the cornerstone of the country´s industrial and commercial logistics. If we leave aside this aspect in favour of public transportation, the economy of the country could receive an important negative impact. For instance, Argentina relies exclusively on its highway network in order to transport goods from the countryside to its capital port. If we disregard this fact, we would be missing the bigger picture and also negatively affect productive sectors that are the core of the country´s economy.
Secondly, huge cities have demonstrated that although having a high investment rate in public transport, they have not been able to definitely solve the collapse of their transport system - specifically in rush hours. Many solutions have been attempted, like for example the licence plate restriction - restricting the circulation of vehicles based on having an even or odd licence plate. The latter puts an incredible amount on pressure on public transportation systems that may not be prepared to resist the increase amount of new passengers.
Finally, we have to take into account future technological trends that could completely change the picture in 10 or 20 years from now. The concept of self-driving cars would indeed disrupt current cities´s transportation systems. This is another key reason that justifies government investment on roads and highways. The latter is based on the fact that almost all cars would be autonomous in the future, which will allow an effective usage of roadways and contribute to lower traffic accidents. Moreover, this technological change opens the possibility for a massive car pooling system that could indeed lower the amount of vehicles in the system by sharing the car with other people while its owner is not using it.
On the whole, there is not doubt at all that governments should invest in the improvement of roads and highways. The issue of public transportation versus cars would be an outdated debate by the next 10 years, so it is a short-term problem. A successful government that thinks in the long-term prosperity of its citizens would undoubtedly bypass a short-term debate and concentrate its resources on its long-term objectives.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, for example, for instance, on the whole
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 43.0788530466 70% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.0752688172 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2121.0 1977.66487455 107% => OK
No of words: 396.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35606060606 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46091344257 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1318478165 2.67179642975 117% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 212.727598566 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537878787879 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 646.2 618.680645161 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.993019929 48.9658058833 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.833333333 100.406767564 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 20.6045352989 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.94444444444 5.45110844103 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.119825889956 0.236089414692 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0479573705318 0.076458572812 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0680470228649 0.0737576698707 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0743319577944 0.150856017488 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0399448989638 0.0645574589148 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 11.7677419355 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 58.1214874552 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 10.9000537634 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.01818996416 113% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 86.8835125448 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.