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

Some people think that the most effective way to deal with traffic congestion and pollution is to raise

petrol

prices. I do not believe

this

action is a good idea and

this

essay will suggest some other actions that can be taken to fix these problems. In my opinion, raising the price of

petrol

would be unfair. In reality, poor people tend to live

further

from job centres and CBDs. In

outer suburbs

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the outer suburbs

, public

transport

tends to be less reliable and frequent than in inner-city suburbs, which makes driving and owning a car a necessity.

Furthermore

, the people who are the least affected by

petrol

price increases are the rich. Often they drive company cars, or they can afford expensive electric cars which would mean these changes do not affect them. Even if they did pay for their own

petrol

, it would only be a miniscule increase in the percentage of their

incomes

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income

which they could afford easily.

However

, through investing both government and private money in the right ways, congestion and emissions from cars could be reduced. Spending money on improving

transport

options

such

as buses, trains and ferries

is

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are

have been

are being

always effective. When public

transport

is cheap, fast, frequent, clean and easily accessible, people use it more and have no need to drive their cars.

In addition

, investing in future

transport

technologies

such

as Hyperloop and 3D tunnel

networks which

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networks, which

are run on sustainable energy could have significant advantages. If governments are truly serious about dealing with traffic and car pollution, they will incentivise innovators, private industry and ultimately their citizens to choose clean

transport

options that do not create traffic problems. In conclusion, I believe that hiking

petrol

prices would be unfair to those who are

poor but

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poor, but

investing in public

transport

and future technologies could have significant benefits in the future.