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?

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It is undoubtedly the case that urban areas around the world increasingly suffer from traffic.
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few individuals suggest that the sole way to reduce it is to reduce the need for
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to workplace, schools and colleges and go shopping, I do not concur with
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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
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itself may argue that
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doing so will reduce congestion drastically and they will get a
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of good
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to spend with their near ones. If people, will not
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, there will be no vehicles on
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, a
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of people working in
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IT industry can work from
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and go to
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office only for some meetings and a
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of students can study online. Same goes for purchasing as well, there are a
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of
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online shopping
websites which can be taken advantage of.
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, people can do their duties from
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and spend the
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they used in
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to play with their kids or watching movies together. Another benefit of preferring to work from
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is that individuals will save a
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of money which they used to spend on petrol and their car maintenance.
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, in my view, one cannot stay at
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forever and not all jobs allow work-from-
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.
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, a construction worker or a staff in an automobile repair shop in a city has to
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daily to construct a building or to repair vehicles.
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, there are a
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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,
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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
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of individuals who
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to meet family and friends
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and spend quite a
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socializing and visiting entertainment
centers
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. If they will just stay at
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, they will be at
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risk of going maniac. In conclusion, despite the benefits of people getting an opportunity to spend
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with family and saving money, if they work from
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, we must take into consideration that, not all jobs have that flexibility, a
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of businesses are at
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risk of shutting down and people need to
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for socializing as well. Personally, I feel that these drawbacks are quite big in comparison to benefits, and I will prefer to
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.
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