Car ownership has increased so rapidly over the past thirty years that many cities in the world are now ‘one big traffic jam’. • How true do you think this statement is? • What measures can governments take to discourage people from using their cars?

In past

three decades mor

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the past three decades

e citizens of big towns became owners of the cars. Whilst the scale of the

problem

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of

ates, the outcomes are seen in traffic congestion throughout the whole cities.

However

, I would like to express my opinion about the

problem

and ways to overcome it by state services. To be personally honest, the

problem

of cars

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car excess

car car excess

municipalities is not only real

but und

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real, but

erestimated by the majority of people. To be specific, traffic jams is a

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a problem

the problem

that is

seen on a surface.

Moreover

, abundance of cars brings problems not only with the utilization of space on the roads and streets, but parkings as well.

In addition

, lots of reso

urces mainly fue

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resources, mainly

l and metal are wasted on the vehicles when there are better options to s

pend the

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spending

m on.

For example

, courtyards and borders of streets in

such

European cities as Berlin or Moscow are full of cars so citizens can hardly enter their flats in their multi-storey resi

dentals.

used or designed for residence or limited to residences

residential

residents

The authority has several options to ameliorate the exce

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a quantity much larger than is needed

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cars mainly revamp public transportation and raising taxes of the cars.

Firstly

, one of the reasons why people started to invest hardly in personal cars is that public transport is less convenient for them. If municipality governments make urba

n transportation service mor

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the urban transportation service

e vari

ative and

a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

variety

varieties

enhanced, citizens will give it a whack and, in some time, opt for it rather than personal cars.

Secondly

, cars became much more affordable nowadays.

However

, the quality and reliability of so cheap cars are doubtful.

For instance

, Chinese and Indian car manufacturers are producing very cheap but short-live cars. They pass the quality check when go out of assembly line

but bar

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line, but

ely could do that after even a year of usage due to retrenchment on details.

Consequently

, the countries need to provide more seve

re and eve

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severe, and

ry year technical checks for every bought car

and

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a car

raise duties for them. Thereby, the inquiry for cheap cars will go down and less people will have cars in general because prices on good ones are high enough. To sum up, traffic congestion is evid

ent

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a evident problem

problem

for large municipality authorities. States need to tighten up cheap cars yearly tech control, raise duties on cars and improve public transportation making it more preferable for citizens.