Governments should spend money on railways rather than roads To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement

Railways and roads are two important components of the modern transport system. While some people argue that governments should provide financial support for railways rather than roads, I believe that both deserve attention from governments.

On the one hand, railways are more useful for cities that rely heavily on tourism or labor export. First, railways are more efficient than roads in terms of long-haul travel because there is no traffic congestion on the rails. This means that visitors can come to these cities more comfortably by train, instead of driving by themselves on the roads. Similarly, the residents of the city can go to major cities to work more efficiently. As a result, spending money on railways is more likely to boost the local economy of such cities. Moreover, maintaining a few primary railways is often cheaper than roads, which needs more frequent repair due to the traffic.

On the other hand, roads still play a key road in urban transport inside the city. Without enough roads, traffic congestion is more likely to happen, causing problems for people who commute to work or school. In addition, although the railway is capable to transport people from distant places to the city, it cannot help them with urban transport. People still need to take a car or a bus to go to their final destinations from the train station. Moreover, the railway is only suitable for major transport, it is economically and physically impossible to build numerous railways to fulfill people's need for transport. Therefore, this problem should be addressed by road construction.

To conclude, while railways have some advantages on long-haul transport, it cannot replace the roads. In my opinion, they are both important parts of the transport system and governments should not spend money on railways rather than roads.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, moreover, similarly, so, still, therefore, while, in addition, as a result, in my opinion, 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: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1543.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 299.0 315.596192385 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16053511706 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65878084053 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.555183946488 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 454.5 506.74238477 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.0643144595 49.4020404114 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 96.4375 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6875 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.1875 7.06120827912 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.217497537877 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0793127604685 0.084324248473 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695019503094 0.0667982634062 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153496037553 0.151304729494 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0429204162525 0.056905535591 75% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.0946893788 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 50.2224549098 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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