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

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

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prices can reduce the number of vehicles on

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and air pollution will eventually decrease.

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

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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

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who drive their personal vehicles.

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they will criticise

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

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, an increment in

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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.

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, simply increasing the

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rates is not going to solve

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or pollution issues. There are,

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, a few ways in which

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

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towards their usage. If there are better quality buses,

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,

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would like to go for

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cheaper option

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of burning their private vehicle's

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.

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

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it would become mandatory for

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to follow them resulting in less

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

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, 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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has significantly reduced Delhi

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

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.

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

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issues.