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

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Some
people
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said that government should spend money on
railways
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rather than roads.
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, other
people
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have
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opinion
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. I suggest that my answer will
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depends
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on how is the
people
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living environment. I will illustrate details in the paragraph below.We all know that building
railways
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or
road
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roads
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is
a
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best way to improve traffic
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or develop
local
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economic
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.
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, building a
railway
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needs more conditions than building a road.
Firstly
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, the cost of building
railways
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is much higher than building roads. And you need to decide where is the best place to set up a train station. A suitable location for a train station should be a place where a lot of
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live
in
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currently or in a near future.
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, if your
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dose
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does
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not
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have enough population or your population is decreasing, it rather
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build a road than a
railway
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.
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, it depends on
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your
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looks like. If the land of your
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goes up and down,
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, there are many mountains or valleys in your
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,
then
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building a
railway
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will be a very hard task and cost a lot of fortune.
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, it is more
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to build a
railway
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when your land is flat.
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, there is no right or wrong of government should build
railways
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or roads. It all depends on the conditions of your
country
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. If you have
many
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population
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populations
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and
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apply
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they
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that
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live
closely
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and most of your land is flat,
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I would say your
country
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may get benefit from building
railways
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.
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