Some people think that the best way to reduce the time spent in travelling to work is to replace parks and gardens close to the city center with apartment buildings for commuters, but others disagree. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

There are conflicting views regarding whether to construct apartment buildings for commuters in the city centre

instead

of parks and gardens can improve the efficiency of travelling forth and back to work.

This

essay will discuss both sides of the argument and provide my own opinion at the end. Those who advocate building more apartments in the downtown area may put forth the following argument. There is no doubt that many workers are disturbed by long-distance commute.

Therefore

, if enough apartment buildings were constructed in the busy centre, more employees would live near their workplaces, shorten the distance between their home and offices, and offering a reduction in people's daily commute.

Nevertheless

, those who think reducing commute time are unlikely to need simple removal of green spaces for apartments can

also

justify their opinions. Even though moving houses to close workplaces do save transportation time as mentioned above, it is not a suitable approach because more negative effects will be exposed. On one hand, decreasing the number of parks and gardens may damage the natural environment, which extremely hard to restore.

On the other hand

, living close to the main business hubs , people will be surrounded by invasion work atmosphere, which may cause stress emotional without enough private space, and

then

leading the work efficiency decline. In my opinion, sacrificed the environment to reduce commute time is not the best approach since

this

plan would backfire. More sustainable ways can be chosen,

such

as working at home, moving offices to remote areas, and taking different working hour measures rather than simply constructing buildings.