Cycling is more environmentally friendly than other forms of transport. Why is it not popular in many places? How can its popularity be increased?
It is indisputable that using a bicycle for a journey is one of the most eco-friendly ways. However, there are only a few people who choose this form of transport to travel to a destination. This essay will provide some compelling reasons behind this problem and then viable solutions will also be suggested to make the bicycle a more popular means of transport.
There are several culprits that explain why cycling as an activity is not popular. First, cycling demands a reasonable level of physical fitness. A cyclist needs to have ample strength to cope with a journey of any length, such as going up hills and confronting biting winds and rain. Plus, as the pollution rates in many places, especially in metropolitan areas, is increasing at an alarming rate, commuting to work by bike is no longer an ideal way compared to cars. Second, many people are put off cycling because of the danger of using busy roads. They have to face heavy traffic and hence, leading to longer time they might need to get to work. This is truly a real problem for those who have hectic schedules and stressful lives.
With a little public and private initiative, the popularity of cycling could easily be increased. As individuals, each person should try to build up their own fitness by beginning with a cycle for short journeys to school and to supermarkets. They can also take up cycling in the early morning as it is the best time for fresh air. Besides, the authorities should introduce congestion charges, as in Vietnam, to reduce the number of cars on the road and thus alleviate traffic jams. This acts as an encouragement for people to go to work by bicycle. Moreover, if more city cycle lanes are constructed, cyclists will be kept safe and even speed up their journey times.
In brief, there are some reasons behind the fact that not many people are interested in cycling to work. However, by taking these aforementioned actions into consideration, it is possible to increase the popularity of cycling.
- The media should include more stories which report good news To what extent do you agree or disagree 88
- Today different types of robots are developed which are good friends to us and help us both at home and work Is this a positive or negative development 84
- Some people say that economic growth is the only way to end hunger and poverty while others say that economic growth damaging environment Discuss both views and give your opinion 73
- In many countries the crime rate is increasing and crimes are becoming more violent Why do you think this is and what can be done about it 84
- People attend colleges or universities for many different reasons for example new experiences career preparation increased knowledge etc Why do you think people attend colleges or universities 89
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 114, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... interested in cycling to work. However, by taking these aforementioned actions i...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, hence, however, if, moreover, second, so, then, thus, in brief, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1661.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 345.0 315.596192385 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81449275362 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6979637899 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.582608695652 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 525.6 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.8119801254 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.2777777778 106.682146367 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1666666667 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.16666666667 7.06120827912 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21428186882 0.244688304435 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0625516249034 0.084324248473 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0557201209403 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128657753058 0.151304729494 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0153965523982 0.056905535591 27% => 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: 10.8 13.0946893788 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 50.2224549098 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.4159519038 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.