The only way to reduce the amount of traffic in cities is by reducing the need for people to travel from home for work, education or shopping. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

It is undoubtedly the case that urban areas around the world increasingly suffer from traffic.

Although

few individuals suggest that the sole way to reduce it is to reduce the need for

travel

to workplace, schools and colleges and go shopping, I do not concur with

this

statement and will provide my opinion with examples in

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essay below. On one hand, those who advocate people should stay and do their daily chores from

home

itself may argue that

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doing so will reduce congestion drastically and they will get a

lot

of good

time

to spend with their near ones. If people, will not

travel

, there will be no vehicles on

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the

road.

For example

, a

lot

of people working in

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IT industry can work from

home

and go to

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the

office only for some meetings and a

lot

of students can study online. Same goes for purchasing as well, there are a

lot

of

online-shopping

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online shopping

websites which can be taken advantage of.

Hence

, people can do their duties from

home

and spend the

time

they used in

travel

to play with their kids or watching movies together. Another benefit of preferring to work from

home

is that individuals will save a

lot

of money which they used to spend on petrol and their car maintenance.

On the other hand

, in my view, one cannot stay at

home

forever and not all jobs allow work-from-

home

.

For instance

, a construction worker or a staff in an automobile repair shop in a city has to

travel

daily to construct a building or to repair vehicles.

Additionally

, there are a

lot

of shops in cities that are at

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risk of going bankrupt since there will be no

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buyers to buy their products,

such

as a coffee shop selling coffee or hot pancakes. People have to go out of their homes for many other reasons as well. There are a

lot

of individuals who

travel

to meet family and friends

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and spend quite a

time

socializing and visiting entertainment

centers

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centres

. If they will just stay at

home

, they will be at

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risk of going maniac. In conclusion, despite the benefits of people getting an opportunity to spend

time

with family and saving money, if they work from

home

, we must take into consideration that, not all jobs have that flexibility, a

lot

of businesses are at

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risk of shutting down and people need to

travel

for socializing as well. Personally, I feel that these drawbacks are quite big in comparison to benefits, and I will prefer to

travel

.