Increasing the price of petrol is the best way to solve growing traffic and pollution problems. To what extent do you agree or disagree? What other measures do you think might be effective?

Hicking gas prices have been deemed as the most effective way of combating the challenges of an increased number of vehicles and their harm to the environment. I completely disagree with that notion.

This

essay will discuss why making fuel expensive only leads to excessive

use

of

cars

instead

and how bicycle schemes can successfully deal with the issues of nature. If oil prices are raised,

this

could only lead to

further

use

of

cars

as people begin to utilize them in ways that they would not do under normal circumstances. To put

this

in perspective, many individuals would be using their

cars

more often in trying to run several errands in a single day in an effort to reserve the expensive fuel in their car.

For instance

, a person who only covers 10 km per day will eventually be covering more than 20 km

instead

as a result

of trying to accomplish all of the day's activities while minimising movements.

This

would result in

further

hazards to the environment and more vehicles on the roads. Alternatively, these problems could be overcome by introducing bicycle schemes in cities.

This

means that rather than using

cars

as the main mode of transportation, people

use

bicycles

instead

. Take,

for example

, the city of Amsterdam where

this

scheme has been implemented successfully, more than 60 per cents of greenhouse gas production has disappeared and only a marginal number of

cars

are on the roads.

This

would not only ensure fewer

cars

on the roads but would

also

eliminate the concern of conserving the environment By way of conclusion, I completely disagree with the

use

of fuel prices as means of controlling traffic and managing pollution because it promotes it

instead

. Rather, bicycles schemes can be effective in

this

regard.