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?

Nowadays people are concerned and brainstorming effective ways to alleviate congested

traffic

and pollution from

vehicles

. Some think if consumers are charged a premium on

petrol

,

traffic

and pollution problems will be kept to a minimum. I completely disagree and don’t think increasing the

petrol

price isn’t an optimal solution.

First,

raising

petrol

costs in the expectation of vehicle owners will consume less is impractical.

Petrol

is not only used in motor

vehicles

but

also

for various purposes.

For example

, manufacturing plants are using

petrol

for producing goods and rising fuel prices can directly make the manufactured goods expensive for final users.

Second,

many cars in the city are not the only reason for the growing

traffic

and sometimes lack

of

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infrastructure and poor urban planning can cause

traffic

jams on the road.

Lastly

, we should consider the emission from manufacturing plants of

vehicles

and not just cars on the road as the technology is advanced enough to manufacture low-emission

vehicles

yet the emissions from the plant are still considerably high. The immediate measure the government can take is to urge people to use public transport, carpool and bicycles more

instead

of private motor

vehicles

. The authority

also

needs to upgrade the infrastructure, public facilities, and urban planning for the convenience of its citizens. At the same time, they should inform and educate the statistics of carbon emissions resulting from

vehicles

and vehicle production and the impact on global warming and greenhouse gas emission.

In addition

, government and private sector companies should continuously research and develop methods to reduce carbon emissions from manufacturing processes.

To conclude

, increasing the

petrol

price alone can’t solve

traffic

congestion and pollution and it’s not the root cause of the problem. Government should invest in infrastructure and urge its people to use public transport more to alleviate those problems.