Some people believe government should spend money on building train and subway lines to reduce traffic congestion. Others think that building more and wider roads is the better way to reduce traffic congestion. Discuss both views and give your opinion
Since traffic congestion becomes worse and worse in many parts of the world, opinions are divided as to whether the state budget should be spent on expanding train and subway lines or constructing more roads. I, however, side with those who go for advancing public transportation.
On the one hand, there are strong reasons to think that building new and bigger roads will alleviate the traffic situation. It is argued that the more available highways, the more space for vehicles to flow smoothly. Taking the rise of personnel demands for commuting into consideration, the current road system appears conspicuously inadequate to cope with the upsurging number of vehicles, especially in urban areas. Besides, municipalities are gradually expanding and people have to commute further to arrive at the workplace, exacerbating gridlocks within rush hours. Highways and overpasses connecting or bridging important transportation locations, therefore, are believed to create more spaces and sufficient ways for vehicle owners to circulate easily.
On the other hand, it is my firm conviction that advancing public transport such as buses and subways is a more sufficient solution for this issue. Despite the fact that more and more roads are constructed, with the relentless influx of people and vehicles in city centres, logjams can never be solved. By investing in train and subway lines, governments encourage residents to use public means of transportation instead of private automobiles, which greatly contributes to relieving pressure on the existing roads. For example, in European countries where bus lines and other mass transits are up to standard, the number of private vehicles participating in traffic is small, and city inhabitants can save hours of delay. Furthermore, as space constraint emerges as a serious problem in almost all urban areas, limiting ground surfaces for new roads and subways, deploying underground areas for metro lines appears more optimal to address the situation.
In conclusion, I believe that governments should allocate the state budget to rail and metro lines rather than to widening roads in order to mitigate traffic congestion.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 99, Rule ID: WHETHER[6]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "as to"?
Suggestion: whether
...arts of the world, opinions are divided as to whether the state budget should be spent on exp...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, furthermore, however, so, therefore, as for, as to, for example, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1837.0 1615.20841683 114% => OK
No of words: 336.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46726190476 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94247419829 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 176.041082164 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.60119047619 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 568.8 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 46.7997117272 49.4020404114 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.307692308 106.682146367 132% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8461538462 20.7667163134 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.23076923077 7.06120827912 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227184295724 0.244688304435 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.074482187864 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0557992973571 0.0667982634062 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141132482552 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0157523485986 0.056905535591 28% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 13.0946893788 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 50.2224549098 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.74 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.05 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 78.4519038076 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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