The following bar chart shows the different modes of transport used to travel to and from work in one European City in 1960, 1980, and 2000. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart given illustrates a comparison of four various types of transportation which residents in a European city used to work in three different years from 1960 to 2000. From an

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perspective, it is evident that the percentage of car commuters showed an upward trend,

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a reverse pattern could be observed in the data on bikes or on foot over the surveyed period. In 1960, the proportion of inhabitants who walk to and from work was the highest, at around 34%. The figures for bicycles and buses were lower, at approximately 25% and 18%, respectively. Motor vehicles,

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, accounted for the lowest, at exactly 5%. The period between 1960 and 2000 witnessed a rapid climb in the proportion of city-dwellers commuting by automobile, reaching a peak of up to 35%.

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, during the same period, there was a dramatic decline in the data on bikes and foot to only around 5% and under 10%, correspondingly. In terms of buses, after a rise in 1980 to somewhere in the vicinity of 26%, its figure declined to over 15% in the final year.