Some people believe the 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

Traffic congestion has been a long term issue of many metropolitan cities across the globe. To cope up with this problem, some city planners came to realize that adding more new lanes to already built ones is the most efficient measure while others reckoned on building subway and metro as the best way to go. I am of the opinion that expending fund on widening the road can be a short-term solution, but constructing train and metro is far better measure.
To begin with. Increasing the number of roads has been an accepted belief among city designers as a highly effective method of addressing the problem. Although, it cut the traffic intensity of roads for short time, it spurs people to use more individual vehicles on highways. The roads would soon be filled with thousands of cars not long after being expanded. Because people's driving decision change as they realize there is no traffic clogging and congestion charge to concern them. To illustrate, consider the situation when people know they can save some money by doing a purchase from the store which is some blocks away. If they assume there will be a terrible traffic and it will take long to get there, they will buy it at a closer store. However, if they know new roads get added to the highway where there is no traffic jam and congestion charge, they will drive that far.
According to aforementioned explanations, wider roads have a short term effect which makes city planners think of other infrastructures like train and metro system. The invaluable system that could level off the traffic volume and reaches an equilibrium over time. Train and metro not only transport thousands of people but also save people's precious time. So they no longer need to wait in intersections when the traffic light is red or get stuck in traffic jam. They also have their own route which minimize collision which provide more safe and reliable journey than the roads. Moreover, they relieve the overcrowding of cars on freeways.
Overall, although adding new capacities to the exciting roads is beneficial for short period, train and metro are considered as more long lasting network in reducing volume of traffic. Therefore, it's more advisable for the government to invest the money on metro and train.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, while, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1878.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 384.0 315.596192385 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.890625 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5515518154 2.80592935109 91% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 176.041082164 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.572916666667 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 578.7 506.74238477 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7863738781 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.8421052632 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2105263158 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.63157894737 7.06120827912 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.229998819293 0.244688304435 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0655099032272 0.084324248473 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0413382904738 0.0667982634062 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144438792771 0.151304729494 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0203141554466 0.056905535591 36% => 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: 11.7 13.0946893788 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 50.2224549098 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.4159519038 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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