Car ownership has increased so rapidly over the past thirty years that in many cities around the world there are constant traffic jams. How true do you think this statement is? What measures can governments take to discourage people from owning cars?

The

population

of

car

owners has increased speedily within thirty years and

this

has been a steady cause of

traffic

jams

over

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many cities of the

world

.

This

is an occurrence happening all around us and can be amended if the government mandates the introduction of public transport into our cities and an increase

of

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taxes paid on private

cars

. Generally, getting to a destination has now become a heavy task because of the longer period it would take, as

every one

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is driving,

therefore

causing

traffic

jams and increased time

is

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being taken to reach a destination.

For instance

, I had an urgent meeting scheduled for 7am

last

week Thursday and could not meet up despite leaving home at 5am for a journey that would have taken just thirty minutes.

However

, all of these can be solved with the introduction of

public

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transport system in cities all around the

world

by the government, if they mandate the

population

to use public transport rather than their private

cars

,

this

will limit the number of private

cars

owned by individuals as they would become of no use and

consequently

reduce the volume of

cars

on the road making movement easier. It has become easy for many people to buy

cars

because the

tax

paid on

it

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is quite negligible.

Therefore

, they can put a high charge per earning as a

tax

on every

car

owned by an individual.

For example

in Turkey, every

car

owner must pay one thousand dollars every three months as a

tax

on their

cars

, with

this

the amounts of

cars

used reduced from 50% to 35% of the

population

within a year.

This

is a very effective means of discouraging the

population

and

also

a solution to the constant

traffic

jam experienced all over the

world

. In conclusion,

traffic

jam has become a serious issue all over the

world

and the government can discourage the people by mandating public means of transportation and a

tax

charge on every private

car

.