In a number of countries, some people think it is necessary to spend large sums of money on constructing new railway lines for very fast trains between cities. Others believe the money should be spent on improving existing public transport. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion

Certain

people

around the globe opine that it is better to spend

money

on building new railway lines for inter-city speed trains while others argue

that is

it a waste of

money

which should rather be used to better the current forms of transportation used by the public. Personally, I believe spending

money

on manufacturing new train

stations

helps decongest the other forms of transportation. One plus point of spending

money

on the construction of train

stations

is that it works serves as a way of reducing

congestion

in the other

transport

sectors. Traffic

congestion

is a global problem today because

people

do not have other alternative means of

transport

that they could

use

.

Hence

, building

such

stations

presents them with more options to

use

thus

reducing the

congestion

in the long run. Take,

for instance

, in a survey conducted on the reasons for traffic

congestion

on some Zambian roads, it was determined that

this

was due to a lack of alternative means of transportation for

people

to

use

thus

the

congestion

.

Therefore

, it is only prudent that

money

should be spent on the construction of railway lines for speed trains.

This

represents my opinion on

this

matter.

On the other hand

, others oppose the preceding thought because they believe that the existing means of

transport

are already more effective than the trains.

In other words

, the current forms of

transport

are very reliable no wonder

people

opted for them in the

first

place.

Hence

, rather than

use

the

money

on something new, it is better to spend it on ensuring that the roads ,

for instance

, are safer so that

people

can continue enjoying themselves as before.

For example

, rather than forsaking the rehabilitation of roads that offers both shorter and longer routes, it is prudent to improve these as they are more commonly used.

This

in itself is reason enough for certain individuals to decide on taking

this

route. By way of conclusion, I reaffirm my stance that spending more

money

on constructing new railway

stations

as an alternative to the existing public

transport

system, serves as a way of decongesting them.

This

will be better understood in the coming days.