Increasing the petrol price is the best way to solve growing traffic and congestion problems.To what extent do you agree or disagree. What other measures do you think might be effective.

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Increasing the petrol price is the best way to solve growing traffic and congestion problems.
To what extent do you agree or disagree.
What other measures do you think might be effective.

With growing development all over the world, traffic and pollution have become two of the major problems of urban cities. One strategy suggested to solve these problems is a hike in petrol prices.

However, in my opinion, simply increasing prices of petrol can only help the problem in short term and we need other alternatives to ease up traffic and reduce pollution to safe levels.

Increasing petrol prices may cause reduction in traffic for a while, but cannot be effective where price demand for petrol is inelastic (i.e demand for petrol does not change with change in prices). For example,...

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