Some people think the best way to solve traffic congestion in cities is to provide free public transport 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

A particular issue about

traffic

congestion

has raised quite a concern at home and abroad. Some people consider that

traffic

congestion

can be solved by providing public free public transport around the clock. In my opinion, saying that

traffic

jams could be addressed by giving citizens free public transport not only carries a wide range of weaknesses, there are

also

other countermeasures in

this

respect. On one hand, offering people free public

transportation

might solve problems to some degree. Citizens will be more willing to take public

transportation

and

thus

decrease the number of individual cars, which may lead to a slight drop in

traffic

incidence.

Nonetheless

, providing free public transport day is only a passive way to address

traffic

conditions. For one thing, it is not rational to have buses and trains shuttle among cities. These public transportations not only carry bigger

traffic

problems among citizens but

also

cause more unnecessary energy waste, which may trigger even more serious problems than

traffic

congestion

. One the other hand, there contains a broad spectrum of better countermeasures to deal with

traffic

conditions.

For example

, a well-designed urban planning system can be seen as an efficient prescription to address

traffic

congestion

. Governments need to program a good

transportation

network or schemes to cope with

traffic

issues,

such

as instituting a bicycle scheme may increase people's willingness to ride bikes, the program will not only lessen the problems of

traffic

jams but

also

reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases exhausted by transportations.

Moreover

, leaping up both people's physical and mental situations as well. In a nutshell,

although

promoting free public

transportation

may seem to be a way to solve

traffic

problems.

However

, there are more efficient measures to achieve the purpose, ranging from setting a well-designed

transportation

network to instituting a well-planned bicycle scheme.