Some cities have vehicle-free days when private cars, trucks and motorcycles are banned from the city center. People are encouraged to use public transportation such as buses, taxis and metro on vehicle-free days. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
Vehicular pollution and traffic jams have become a pestering problem for almost all urban areas in the world. Some cities have implemented the principle of vehicle-free days when everyone rides on public rather than personal transport. I think this strategy has greater disadvantages than advantages since it fails to change people’s behavior and causes over-crowding of public transport.
Clearly, vehicle-free days help in containing the pollution in urban areas. Since vehicles are the primary source of local pollution such as, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide that increase the temperature of a city and cause numerous diseases, they must be avoided on certain days. This helps reduce the particulate pollution that causes asthma and lung diseases. Also, the local warming of the city is reduced. For instance, the government of New Delhi recently experimented with the concept of vehicle-free days and this was extremely beneficial in curtailing the pollution of the fourth most polluted city in the world by 20 percent.
Despite these advantages, I believe that this idea has a large number of disadvantages. Firstly, avoiding private vehicles on just a few days increased pressure on the public transport tremendously. One study found that on vehicle-free days the number of people using a metro or a bus increase by 35 percent. This often leads to over-crowded public vehicles and reduces the comfort of travel. Secondly, reserving only a few days as vehicle-free does not create a long-term habit of using buses and trains. Though this may reduce the pollution and temperature on a specific day, it is not a permanent solution to these problems. The governments should invest heavily in public transport and make it comfortable so that the people develop a habit of traveling by buses.
In conclusion, I think that the idea of vehicle-free days is not a permanent solution to any traffic related problem. If the governments want to prevent traffic jams and reduce pollution, they should aim at changing the people’s behavior by investing heavily in the public transport infrastructure.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, for instance, i think, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1785.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 334.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34431137725 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05108036571 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541916167665 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 555.3 506.74238477 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.3312878657 49.4020404114 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.0 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6470588235 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.76470588235 7.06120827912 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.335282527083 0.244688304435 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110235996769 0.084324248473 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0826616775917 0.0667982634062 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19991196634 0.151304729494 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0472480190235 0.056905535591 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.4159519038 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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