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Car ownership has increased so rapidly over the past thirty years that many cities in the world are now 'one big traffic jam'. How true do you think this statement is? What measures can governments take to discourage people using their cars?

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Over the past 30 years, more families bought not only one private car, which caused car ownership to increase dramatically,
thus
 resulting in 'one big
traffic
jam
' in many cities. I think it is exactly a real issue in modern days. Governments should take measures to deal with it. I will give some methods below which I believe are useful.
Traffic
jam
 has become a major problem in many cities. Nowadays, with remarkable/marked decrease in automobile price, more people choose to buy their private cars. Due to their workplace far away from home, they tend to buy cars, which contribute to their commuting.
This
 causes lots of transportation problems, especially
traffic
 congestion. In my own experience. I live in Shanghai, where I have to get up 2 hours in advance to go to work for that, in the morning rush hour, there is a
traffic
jam
 every day. Officials can reduce the uses of cars by increasing the number and frequency of public transport. Some people argue that they don't prefer to take the bus because it is slow and they need to wait for a long time.
Moreover
, governments
also
 can prolong the opening time of public transport and finance it a lot to give out free tickets for the public.
This
 can discourage people from using their cars who complain about missing the
last
 bus for working too late. Free tickets
also
 give more stimulations to these commuters who care about their transportation fees needed to transfer different
traffic
 lines from suburb to downtown. To sum up, with the increase in car ownership, there is a really big issue regarding
traffic
jam
. To deal with it, the government could improve the public transport services to reduce the opportunities of using private cars, like free of charge tickets, extended opening time, and the increase in numbers and frequency.
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