The first car appeared on British roads in 1888. By the year 2000 there may be as many as 29 million vehicles on British roads. Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged and international laws introduced to control car ownership and use. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Nowadays almost everyone who lives in developed countries owns a car. We cannot state the same for the past, at least not for all the areas. In

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we will go through the way in which the ownership of cars increased over the past 30 years and we will see some actions that could be undertaken in order to make the people opt for a different transport. Going back by 30 years the number of car-owners

was

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were

substantially less than the current one,

this

was due mainly to two factors.

Firstly cars

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Firstly, cars

were still considered a sort of niche product because of its quite high price, so that only wealthy people could afford it.

Secondly

, even if some of the middle class people were able to a vehicle the average was surely not higher than one per family, because in any case it would have been useless for a family own more than a car. Today,

however

, the scenario is completely changed: every family owns on average two cars, because they are cheaper and many ways

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financing the purchase are available for almost everyone. That growth in the car-users

is bringing

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are bringing

many traffic problems, especially in the big cities.

Nevertheless

, there are some ways thanks to which the authorities can incentivize people to choose alternative way

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moving. Increasing the rides of the busses and their stops at a lower ticket price is one of the best

way

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to do so, as people will have a valid and cheap alternative for moving around the city. Another

example could

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example, could

be increasing the number of bicycle roads following the Netherlands pattern To conclude, it is true that the exponential growth of the car-owners

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are giving

lot of traffic problems, but is up to the authorities trying to discourage the use of vehicle offering a range of different alternative to the people.