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Governments should spend money on railways rather than roads. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

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Governments should always do what is best for each country according to their needs, limitations, infrastructure, and so on. That being said, there is not only a unique option when it comes to solving traffic jams having as solutions railways or roads.
For instance
, railways provide a fast way to communicate between cities and even countries.
Also
, the amount of people that can be transported is huge in comparison with roads.
However
, the time and amount of money that needs to be spent for it to happen is considerably higher than what is needed to build roads.
Therefore
, if someone needs to travel from one country to another, it may be cheaper to use a railway, even cheaper than booking a flight, but it can be way more expensive if that person wants to use it only as a daily life way of transportation.
On the other hand
, roads provide easy and quick access to daily life transportation with a more convenient investment.
Although
, the negative side effects it takes for one person
traveling
the act of going from one place to another
travelling
 long distances makes it inconvenient taking into account the traffic, tiredness, and time. In that case, flying makes it easier but more expensive in
such
 a scenario. As it was mentioned at the beginning, whether to decide if governments should spend their public
resources
Suggestion
resource
 investing on roads or railways depends a lot on what the needs of each country are; some may need railroads as they already have some of them working, and others may want to use that money on building and fixing current roads.
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