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?

Rapidly growing population and urbanisation are the two major factors contributing to

traffic

and pollution problems in metropolitan cities, especially. It is believed that an increase in

fuel

prices can reduce the number of vehicles on

road

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and air pollution will eventually decrease.

Although

this

can be helpful, in my opinion, it is surely not the best way to tackle the problems. In

this

essay, I will explain why, in my view, a price surge in petrol is not enough and what other measures might be more effective. For starters, it is not possible to increase petrol prices drastically and if it cannot be done, a slight increase would most likely have no effect on

people

who drive their personal vehicles.

Although

they will criticise

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for doing so, they will continue to commute with their personal dwellings. Apart from

this

, an increment in

fuel

costs will only fill government officials' pockets and the tax earned due to the surge will most likely never going to be diverted towards the

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development of society.

Thus

, simply increasing the

fuel

rates is not going to solve

traffic

or pollution issues. There are,

however

, a few ways in which

traffic

problems can be addressed. Improving public transport facilities can help in diverting some

people

towards their usage. If there are better quality buses,

for example

,

people

would like to go for

this

cheaper option

instead

of burning their private vehicle's

fuel

.

Additionally

, if certain laws, like the Odd-Even Rule, are passed

then

it would become mandatory for

people

to follow them resulting in less

traffic

on roads. As per the rule passed in Delhi recently,

for instance

, a person who has a car with an Odd number can drive his/her car only on some days and another person who has a car with an Even number can drive around on

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.

This

has significantly reduced Delhi

traffic

. In conclusion, a shoot in petrol prices alone is not an efficient solution because it will hardly impact

people

.

Therefore

, it is essential to put other methods into action in order to alleviate the environmental and

traffic

issues.