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

The prime modes of transportation around the world are either roadways or railways. Some people argue that government should cut off the budget on paving roads and invest more in building and maintaining railway system. I totally agree with the notion because of the two prime reasons.

Firstly

, transportation through

train

provides extended reach to small towns and villages and

secondly

, it is a faster alternative. Trains have proved to be the only efficient transport mean for people living in the suburbs of the country, primarily in the developing countries. The government’s limited budget does not allow it to build and maintain roads throughout the state, which is the reason that we only

see narrow

Suggestion

see a narrow

unpaved roads in the rural areas.

Hence

, people from countryside prefer to use trains to move from

one

place to another. To illustrate, in Pakistan more than half of the population from small towns and cities prefer to

travel

by

train

to avoid the tiring

travel

by road.

Additionally

,

this

rail network

also

allows them to move their agricultural produce to urban areas in a cheap and convenient manner.

Moreover

,

travel

through

train

is always faster than any vehicle on the road. Traffic congestion due to the increasing number of cars on roadways is

one

of the prime reasons of extended

travel

time. Trains bypass

this

hurdle through independent rail tracks, saving people’s time and effort. As,

for instance

, Government of Pakistan has introduced the metro

train

system in

one

of the busiest city of the country, Lahore. The prime purpose of executing the plan is to overcome the issue of heavy traffic on roads by providing an efficient railway network around the city. In conclusion, it is an undeniable fact that roadways are

one

of the primary means of

travel

, but state authorities should allocate more budget to the other best alternative, railways.

Travel

through trains

besides

being the faster substitute is

also

the only effective mode of transport for many people of the country, where the road network is almost non-existent.