Governments should spend money on railways rather than roads. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Infrastructure is the main contributor to modern economics, nowadays there is a trend saying that more government spending should be put on railways.

However

, I believe spending money on

roads

will bring more housing choices to the public and boost commute efficiency,

although

it may have a bad effect on the environment. The

first

benefit that more money spent on building

roads

would bring is more choice in the housing market. As

roads

start to spread out, there would be more apartments, houses, and condos being built along the new

roads

and that would give a broad of choices for the public to choose.

In contrast

, it seems not many housing properties are built along the railways.

In addition

, there will be an improvement in public commuting. Public commuting especially in cities is highly connected to

roads

no matter driving a private vehicle or riding a bus. More

roads

mean they could have more choices or more easily reach place B from place A.

For instance

, if a person needs to drive downtown for work,

however

, he used to drive on the only highway to get there which consumed lots of time that could originally be his work hours or leisure. Since more

roads

or highways could have been done, he probably saves tons of time

instead

of waiting on the only highway.

On the other hand

, more

roads

would bring danger to the environment. Since more

roads

are being built,

this

will lead the public to favour driving a private vehicle which means more emissions at the time.

For instance

, if 1000 people are driving on road, the emission they produce is way more than a train which contains 1000 people for transporting. In my conclusion, I believe that more government budget should spend on

roads

, and it will bring more houses to the public and boost commuting efficiency,

although

it may harm the environment.