Some cities have vehicle-free days when private cars, trucks and motorcycles are banned from the city center. People are encouraged to use public transportation such as buses, taxis and metro on vehicle-free days. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

Vehicular

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and traffic jams have become a pestering problem for almost all urban areas in the world. Some cities have implemented the principle of

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days when everyone rides on public rather than personal

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. I think

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strategy has greater disadvantages than advantages since it fails to change people’s

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and causes over-crowding

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. Clearly,

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days help in containing the

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in urban areas. Since vehicles are the primary source of local

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pollution

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pollution, such

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as, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide that increase the temperature of a city and cause numerous diseases, they must be avoided on certain days.

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helps reduce the particulate

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that causes asthma and lung diseases.

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, the local warming of the city is reduced.

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, the government of New Delhi recently experimented with the concept of

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days and

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was extremely beneficial in curtailing the

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of the fourth most polluted city in the world by 20 percent. Despite these advantages, I believe that

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idea has a large number of disadvantages.

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, avoiding private vehicles

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just a few days increased pressure on the public

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tremendously. One study found that on

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-free days the number of people using a metro or a bus increase by 35 percent.

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often leads to over-crowded public vehicles and reduces the comfort of travel.

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, reserving only a few days as

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does not create a long-term habit of using buses and trains. Though

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may reduce the

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and temperature on a specific day, it is not a permanent solution to these problems. The governments should invest heavily in public

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and make it comfortable so that the people develop a habit of

traveling

the act of going from one place to another

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by buses. In conclusion, I think that the idea of

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days is not a permanent solution to any traffic related problem. If the governments want to prevent traffic jams and reduce

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, they should aim at changing the people’s

behavior

manner of acting or controlling yourself

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by investing heavily in the public

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infrastructure.