In some countries, parents expect children to spend long time studying in and after school and have less free time. Do you think it has positive or negative effects on children and society that they live in?

The diagram illustrates the passenger numbers of three means of transportation in Great Britain from 1950 to 2005. Overall, the number of all three modes varied conspicuously. Passenger numbers of the national
rail
network and London underground showed a similar trend and were far more than that of light
rail
and metro systems which increased slightly, from the beginning to the end. In terms of the lines of the national
rail
network and London underground, starting from 1000
million
and 700
million
respectively, the two figures decreased to approximately 650 and 500
million
separately from 1950 to 1982, while the figure for the national
rail
network remained larger than that of London underground.
However
, since 1982, the two lines began to fluctuate and
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, and they sometimes coincided with each other, up to roughly 1000
million
in 2005. Regarding the number of light
rail
and metro systems, which was between 0 and 250 all the time, there was an obvious growing trend starting from 1980, when near zero, to about 200
million
in 2005. Whereas,
this
mode of transportation did not emerge until approximately 1963 with a number of merely less than 50
million
, following a gradual drop till 1980 before it began to go up.
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