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 from using their cars ?

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three decades in an unprecedented manner.

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increased enormously in some cities. I reckon that figures

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cars have soared to a height that

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has resulted

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problems. The possible solutions

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will be discussed in the following paragraphs.

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and foremost, with the increase in population car ownership has increased proportionately.

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, because of limited resources and available spaces to make wide roads has increased the severity of the

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jams have become quite frequent in metro-cities. To exemplify, studies show that in the cosmopolitan cities a person is spending an hour in the

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on the daily basis. The possible solutions to manage the

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jams could be that

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overnment should discourage

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se of cars in everyday life. They should implement stringent laws to reduce car ownership and should focus on improving

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uality of public transport.

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, France has managed its

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by imposing

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igh tax on the purchase of private vehicles,

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cost of cars have peaked to an extent that general public

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started using public transport in daily life. To conclude, rapidly increased figures of cars on roads have led to the

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jam

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in some cities, but it can be managed by

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overnment by implementing some strict laws to discourage

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urchase of cars

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as imposing higher tax on private vehicles and improving quality of public transport.