Governments should spend more money on railways rather than roads.
Do you agree or disagree?
Some people argue that governmental institutions should give preference to railways over roads, when it comes to investing money into infrastructure. In my opinion, I do not agree with this statement, since roads are more cost efficient and provide people with greater flexibility.
It is claimed by many experts that building railroads is more expensive compared to highways, when covering the same distance. Would a government decide to initiate with a railway construction, they will have to face additional costs including: building respective platforms; hiring support staff; and constantly maintaining the rails. Such a development of events may result in lack of financial resources within the country and can have a detrimental effect on the economy. A recent study conducted by the students of Yerevan State University, faculty of Economics has shown that construction and maintenance of roads is 30% cheaper than that of railways.
Besides that, roads and highways have the distinction of providing a much wider freedom of choice and flexibility in terms of travel conditions. With a developed road network, the population is able to opt for travelling via private vehicle, or to go for public transportation. Those people, who possess their own means of transportation will benefit more from newly built roads than from railways, and the remaining population will still be able to commute by bus or carpooling services. It will therefore be up to the traveler to decide on the timing, the cost and the route of the trip. The aforementioned argument has been substantiated by The New York Times research, published in summer 2017, which has shown that only 30% of Americans prefers to travel by trains.
To conclude, I strongly opine that it would be more favorable for governments to spend money on roads instead of railways, because of the two fundamental reasons: building roads is less costly; and the community will have a wider range of travel options with roads network rather than railway system.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, may, so, still, therefore, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 41.998997996 126% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1702.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 324.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25308641975 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99780186706 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.611111111111 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 516.6 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 51.5676470495 49.4020404114 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.833333333 106.682146367 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0 20.7667163134 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.08333333333 7.06120827912 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.180375117606 0.244688304435 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0532873854054 0.084324248473 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0617502151911 0.0667982634062 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119843031872 0.151304729494 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0721065219436 0.056905535591 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 50.2224549098 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.8 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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