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

Traffic

congestion is one of the major problems in most of the metropolitan cities. Many people say that the

solution

to resolve

this

issue

is to motivate citizens to relocate to the suburbs. I certainly disagree with the given statement, because moving to the countryside will not be the feasible

solution

rather improving transportation services

inside

Suggestion

in

the city and encourage people to use that will help to a certain extent.

To begin

with, because of the industrial developments and opportunities available, individuals tend to move to the urban

area

and density of the population in

such

area

is more.

This

caused increased

traffic

congestion in cities. To resolve

this

issue

, encouraging people to live in the suburbs will not be an effective

solution

, rather

this

will increase travel time for them and

issue

will remain the same. As an illustration, Brampton and Missisauga are the suburbs

area

around Toronto city, many people prefer to live here since the house prices and rents are comparatively less than the downtown's prices, but it takes around one and half hour to reach to

work

.

Hence

, clearly

this

solution

will not help to solve the

traffic

and transportation

issue

.

On the other hand

, improving transportation facilities can tackle the

traffic

issue

to a great extent. People should be encouraged to use public transit, government can declare some discounts on bus or train tickets and monthly passes, so everyone will start using public transit. Another

solution

to

this

problem can be encouraging car pooling. Some smart phone applications are already in the market to improve car pool, but they have not gotten enough popular in the society.

Third

solution

could be changing

work

hours,

for example

, if one company starts their

work

at 8 am,

then

another company in the same

area

can ask their employees to start

work

at 9 am.

This

variation will help to manage the crowd on the road at the peak hours. To conclude, forcing people to move in suburbs and in the countryside will not help to address the problem of

traffic

congestion. I believe, encouraging them to use car pool and public transit may help along with variation in

work

hours to manage the crowd.