Increasing the price of petrol is the best way to solve the growing traffic and pollution problems. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the above statement? What other measures do you think might be effective?

It is considered that increasing the

price

of

petrol

is one of the most important ways to curb escalating

traffic

and pollution problems.

However

, in my opinion, I completely believe that using other sustainable sources of energy like solar, wind and hydro will immensely help to tackle

such

issues. On the one hand, there are people who think that increasing the

price

of

petrol

will reduce its use and,

thus

, decrease rising

traffic

congestions and pollutions.

However

, in spite of increased

petrol

price

people will continue to use it as there are no other viable options available to run vehicles.

Hence

, it will not bring much change in solving growing

traffic

issues and pollutions. In fact, due to the increase in the

petrol

price

cost of goods may increase because of an increase in transportation costs, creating detrimental effects on the economy.

On the other hand

, if more sustainable energy like solar

power

, wind

power

, and hydro

power

are utilised to run vehicles and factories, there will be less emission of harmful gases like carbon mono oxide and CFC which contributes increasing air pollution considerably.

In addition

, using solar

power

to run public vehicles would result in the cheap fare.

This

will encourage people to travel through eco-friendly cheap trams, trains and buses. To conclude, increasing the

price

of

petrol

is not the best way to resolve the growing

traffic

congestions and pollutions.

Thus

, an effective way to control the aforementioned issues would be to use other renewable sources of energy in the public transport system which can significantly bring down

traffic

and pollution problems.