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?

Traffic

and environmental

pollution

have become vital

problems

in the present. It is argued that these two

problems

can be solved by increasing petrol prices. I strongly disagree with

this

statement as there are several other causes to increase

traffic

and

pollution

. In my opinion, poor public

transportation

and poor road conditions are the two main reasons among many others. If public

transportation

is at a good level, people do not tend to use their private

vehicles

during rush hours. For an instance, a Sri Lankan university did a survey about reasons to use personal

vehicles

, and poor public

transportation

turned out to be the primary reason.

On the other hand

, damaged roads increase

traffic

congestion significantly. A good example would be the Colombo - Galle main road in Sri Lanka, which experienced a high volume of

traffic

due to

damaged areas.

This

was sorted after the road development authority fix these places. In terms of

pollution

from

vehicles

, gasoline is only one reason which causes environmental

problems

. But there are other causes as well,

such

as disposing of used engine oil and old tires,

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vehicle-washed water and chemicals etc. Considering these points, I do not believe that

pollution

or

traffic

problem can be sorted by increasing fuel prices.

However

, the government can take other effective measures to mitigate these controversial

problems

. The very first solution is improving public

transportation

, which can contribute to the reduce

traffic

immensely.

For example

, Bangladesh replaced the old railway system with a new electric train system that has high-class facilities which reduced private vehicle usage by 65% on weekdays. The second solution is to encourage people to buy electrical

vehicles

instead

of gasoline cars.

This

directly supports to mitigation of the problem of carbon dioxide emission. To illustrate that, many European countries nowadays offer larger discounts to those who buy electric

vehicles

,

as a result

, the usage of fuel has reduced significantly.

To conclude

, some individuals believe that rising fuel prices are the most effective way to solve increasing

traffic

and

pollution

issues.

Nevertheless

, above discussed aspects prove that it is completely wrong and there are various other reasons that cause these

problems

.

Also

, there are plenty of other measures that might be effective in terms of solving growing

traffic

and

pollution

.