In a number of countries, some people think it is necessary to spend large sums of money on constructing new railway lines for very fast trains between cities. Others believe the money should be spent on improving existing public transport. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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A part of population of different countries considers that the
government
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should spend lots of money on improving
railway
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connections between cities, while the
another
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
other
part of people finds more reasonable to spend large sums of money on
development
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the development
of
transport
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within cities. Today there are a lot of problems connected with public
transport
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- negative an impact on ecology, an increasing of the inhabitants and the
appearence
outward or visible aspect of a person or thing
appearance
of immigrants
that is
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the reason of lack of seating in public transports, low quality of technologies in some countries makes the using of public
transport
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inconvenient. In my opinion public
transport
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is the problem is necessary to solve, because it is used daily by settlers of big cities. So the
government
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should think about investments into
improvement
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the improvement
of technologies of public
transport
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, because it can affect on
population’s health
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the population’s health
.
For instance
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, my
grand-mother
the mother of your father or mother
grandmother
grandmothers
grandfather
always feels bad herself and has problems with breathe because of traffic fumes and because of the large amount of people amount of people in the subway during the peak hour. On the other site it is really important to have good and stable
railway
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lines, because
railway
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connection allows to
transport
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the large amount of production between cities. In each country there is a city that specialized in some type of production and its factories produce provision to help other cities. In conclusion,
i
refers to the speaker or writer
I
would say that both problems are necessary to be solved by the
government
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, but
firstly
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the
government
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should satisfy the interest of the population within cities and should try to find the opportunities to
transport
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the production between the cities not only by the
railway
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trains.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • infrastructure
  • efficient
  • congestion
  • sustainable
  • environmentally friendly
  • connectivity
  • economic growth
  • public transportation
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