In cities and towns all over the world, the high volume of traffic is a problem. What are the causes of this and what actions can be taken to solve this problem?

In modern society,

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jams are the most urgent issue for many cosmopolitan cities around the world. There are several causes of the high volume of vehicles on roads.

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, there are certain steps that governments should take to resolve

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problem.

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essay will be discussed both main factors contributing to

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problem and solutions to remedy.

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with, the two main causes for

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issue are the low prices of

oil

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and poor public

transportations

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.

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, people

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chooses

to

drive

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private vehicles rather than travelling by public transportation as the

oil

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's price is cheap. The advanced technologies of

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productions

drive

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down the cost of producing

oil

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and

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, most people at all income levels are able to afford

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fossil energy. Research from Imperial college London reveals that since 1980 when

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oil price

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oil prices

the oil price

had decreased for the

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time,

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higher

levels of

oil

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consumptions have corresponded with the high

volumn

the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object

volume

volumes

of

traffic

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on the streets. Another important cause is that public

transportations

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have poor conditions and are unreliable. Workers, who need to work in the morning, would unlikely to take risks of being late according to the delay of buses or trains.

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, people are likely to

drive

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their own cars so that they will be on time for working. There are several steps that governments should take to remedy

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issue. The state should consider taxing on oils in order to raise the price of energy consumption. If oils become more pricey, people will avoid

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driving

drive

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private cars for working or travelling.

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, after Chinese government increased taxes on

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prices, the

traffic

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on roads were reduced by 60%.

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, an additional action would be improving the public facilities. Governments should provide more budgets to maintenance bus and train systems as well as increase the frequency of services provided by those

transportations

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in order to gain more users. In Japan,

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, the main reason that 90% of Japanese people use trains in their daily life as they trust in the high quality of public services in their country and

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they are willing to travel more on trains. In conclusion, it seems to me that

oil

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prices and poor public

transportations

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lead to high levels of

traffic

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on the roads having said that there

also

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certain solutions that governments can take to resolve

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this issues

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this issue

these issues

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