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

Countries ought to invest more

money

in building railway networks

instead

of

roads

.

This

essay completely agrees with the statement because

trains

are environmentally friendly and safer. One main reason why

money

should be spent on railways rather than

roads

is that it is beneficial for the environment.

That is

to say that because

trains

carry more people than cars,

trains

create less pollution per traveller. The government in China,

for example

, has invested a lot of

money

in building its railway system, and

this

has resulted in less smog in the air, leading many other countries to

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. Another reason for investing in railways is that travelling by train is safer than driving.

This

is because

trains

have fixed tracks, whereas

roads

are shared by buses, cars, and motorbikes, and, because of that, there are more collisions on

roads

.

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, all over the

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there are fewer train accidents reported every year than road accidents. In conclusion,

this

essay completely agrees that governments should allocate more

money

to rail networks than road infrastructure because

this

results in less damage to the environment and it is a safer means of transport.