The rising levels of congestion and air pollution found in most of the world's cities can be attributed directly to the rapidly increasing number of private cars in use. In order to reverse this decline in the quality of life in cities, attempts must be made to encourage people to use their cars less and public transport more. Discuss possible ways to encourage the use of public transport. You should write at least 250 words. You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

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Air pollution is one of the most discussed
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issues
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type of pollution is more common in large cities. The one of the main
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reasons
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large amount
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a large amount
of private cars. The
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to reduce
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pollution is public
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transportation which
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transportation, which
is cheap and can carry many people at once. Even so most people will not give up their own cars because it’s faster and easier to travel and go to some destination.
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public
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doesn’t have
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a good reputation
among people. So how to encourage people to take public
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over a private car?
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The first way
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is to make public
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more attractive for people by making it faster to travel inside or outside of the city. In one program I saw that to make buses travel faster in
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the city
cities
a city
they planned to build a different road for buses only which help them avoid traffic congestion.
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people would choose bus
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during
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is promoting
popularity
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the popularity
of public
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.
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could be done by showing people a famous person taking a public transport. The
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is putting taxes on private car driver.
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might be
effective but
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effective, but
personally I would suggest
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using
it only in extreme
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situation, but
in others I don’t think
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is a good
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.
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of taking money from them we can increase benefits of taking public
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as I mentioned before. In
conclusion if
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conclusion, if
we make public
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more comfortable and convenient it should work to attract more commuters. Passengers are like customers and public
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should satisfy
customers
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customers'
needs.
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