Some people think that in order to solve traffic and transportation problems people should be encouraged to live in cities rather than in suburbs or countryside. To what extent do you agree or disagree.

The migration of people from the countryside to the cities is often believed to be the solution to

traffic

and

transportation

issues.

This

essay completely disagrees that moving to the urban ce

nters w

an area that is approximately central within some larger region

centres

ill be the solution to

this

problem.

This

essay will discuss how increase in private car owners and increasing

city

population

will worsen

traffic

and

transportation

problems if people are persuaded to migrate to the

city

. Increment in private car owners is ma

jor factor t

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a major factor

o consider that can deteriorate road transport

system

in the cities.

This

is because when people who own personal cars in the countryside are asked to move to the cities, the

number

of cars causing

traffic

congestion on the

city

roads would increase.

As a result

, there will be

traffic

jam and long delays on the roads due to too mu

ch c

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many

ars on the road networks.

For example

, in 2004,a

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,

study carried out by King's University on

traffic

congestion showed that

this

issue has worsened over the

last

decade since the movement of people from the suburbs to

t

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of

he town has increased.

In addition

, increasing

po

pulation o

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the population

f

city

dwellers has worsened major

transportation

system

such

as, road and railway

system

. Whenever people from the villages who are in search of white-collar jobs move into the

city

,t

h

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,

e

number

of people living in the cities ke

ep r

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keeps

ising. In order words the

number

of individuals utilizing the public transport rises, and

this

can result in crowded buses with insufficient seats for the commuters.A prime example is the

city

of Lagos, Nigeria, whose public transport

system

since

last

year has been crowded steadily by passengers due to increasing

city

population

. In conclusion, promoting the movement of rural dwellers to the

city

ce

nter w

an area that is approximately central within some larger region

centre

ill worsen

transportation

and

traffic

related issues because of as

sociated rise i

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the associated rise

an associated rise

n individual car owners and escalating

number

of the

city

population

. I recommend that go

vernment s

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the government

hould set up a committee to look into these matters.