People have different views on how to reduce traffic congestion. Some think that governments should build more train and subway lines, while others think that building more and wider roads will reduce traffic congestion. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
People have differing views about whether road expansion is a proper way to mitigate traffic jams. While there are some benefits to the construction of larger roads, I would argue it is better for governments to invest more in building public transport systems as train and subway lines.
On the one hand, advancing the road systems could be argued as a way of solving the problem of traffic congestion. To begin with, building more roads could provide drivers with flexible route choice. Generally, commuters tend to travel at the same time of a day, and this causes traffic jams during the rush hour if there are only limited routes. With more roads, drivers could have the alternative route selection, which achieves the purpose of traffic diversion. Consequently, it eases traffic tension. Next, it is common that roads are built narrow in some developing countries, and a small accident such as a breakdown could paralyse traffic. Regarding this, designing wider roads could be the solution of traffic jams by providing larger space on roads for drivers to cope with emergencies without disrupting traffic.
On the other hand, I would agree with those who believe that governments should lay emphasis on developing public transport systems. More train and subway lines provide larger passenger capacity than private vehicles and thus could meet the transport demand of a vast number of passengers. Moreover, constructing more of these lines could decrease the number of individual vehicles because people are encouraged to take such public transits. Compared with driving private cars, railways and subways do not have to go through intersections and traffic lights, and these traffic systems normally have fixed schedules. Such level of punctuality attracts people to choose trains and subways as their primary means of transport for travelling, which would mean that fewer people would need to travel by car. As a result, traffic congestion could be more effectively alleviated.
In conclusion, while it may calm the traffic in the short-term by the means of road expansion, my own view is that advancing public transport systems is a more effective way to reducing traffic congestion in a long-term orientation.
- Families who send their children to private schools should not be required to pay taxes that support the state education system. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? 84
- In many countries, the proportion of older people is steadily increasing. Does this have more positive or negative effects on society? 73
- People have different views on how to reduce traffic congestion. Some think that governments should build more train and subway lines, while others think that building more and wider roads will reduce traffic congestion. Discuss both views and give your o 73
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, thus, while, in conclusion, such as, as a result, to begin with, 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: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1875.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 356.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26685393258 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7069252763 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530898876404 0.561755894193 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 558.0 506.74238477 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.041607943 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.1875 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.25 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.125 7.06120827912 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
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: 0.325657876099 0.244688304435 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107750426093 0.084324248473 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0498322723522 0.0667982634062 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.214693073218 0.151304729494 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0533576605537 0.056905535591 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => 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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