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

It is often argued that

governments

should invest money in

railways

instead

of

roads

. I completely agree with

this

statement because

railways

can be a part of reducing air pollution and can be a key role to increase economic activities. First of all, investing in

roads

may be effective in terms of more convenience to travel to other cities or places but it may affect the increase of air pollution as improving

roads

can attract more cars. In comparison,

for example

, if

governments

spend money to develop railway systems to make them easy to travel around any place and built them into the main transportation, people will be more interested in

railways

and will choose them rather than private cars.

This

is good for the environment because rail services can take people in a larger capacity and

therefore

much lower per-capita carbon emissions than private vehicles.

In addition

, funding

railways

can make the growth of economic trade because the railway systems can connect various areas so that trading between people in different places will be easier, importantly

also

transport a lot per time and cost-effectively.

For instance

, in my country, traders in the north of Thailand will send their products to Bangkok easily if

railways

can connect to them, same as traders who live in Bangkok and need to expand their network into the countryside,

railways

are the effective systems that will help them save their cost and expand their businesses comfortably.

Although

nowadays road transport is more accessible rather than

railways

, they come with more high-cost transportation too.

Hence

, that's why

governments

should invest budgets in

railways

to improve the economy in the long run. In conclusion,

governments

should spend more money on

railways

than

roads

. For one thing, better railway services help to reduce pollution problems and, for another, they will play a big part to improve the economy of the country.