Government should spend money on railways rather than roads. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement ?

When it comes to transportations, governments find themselves in a dilemma where they have to prioritize the development of public or private infrastructure for transportation. These two, each has its own merits and demerits and

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at certain situations might not be appliable or efficient and it is totally dependent on the density. To commence with, let's discuss dense cities where people have to spend a certain amount of time on the commute.

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since these cities are highly populated, they would have to spend approximately 2 hours depending on the distance each day in

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. If we add up these times and multiply it by the total population, it would cost the community dearly.

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it would be reasonable to dedicate funds to public sources like railways to provide extremely fast and cheap transport for the majority of the society.

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, if we were to invest it in the private end, it would have only caused more

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, air pollution and noise in the city.

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would not be much efficient.

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, in rural areas where there is a far fewer population, governments usually decide to develop

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. Because not only the costs of maintaining a railroad and trains are rather high, but

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there are fewer people using it, it would only lead to more loss for the city.

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would cost way less, and since these areas have less population, there wouldn't be much

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. So not only it would be cheaper, but

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we wouldn't get polluted and suffer from

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jams as opposed to the cities.

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, it would be reasonable to develop private transit infrastructure. To summarize, when it comes to dedicating funds for the development of transportation ends, in my opinion, it totally depends on the situation. If we are investing it in a dense city,

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railways should be our primary target and if not,

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we should focus on building more

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