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 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 illustrates European cities' various kinds of transport used for work between 1960 to 2000.
Overall
, car rates are the only transport that keeps increasing over the years. In detail, the use of travelling by car had the lowest number of
users
in 1960 for only about 6% of the population, but it jumped to almost 5 times more in 1980,
then
in 2000 it reached its highest peak of
users
for more than 40% of the population. Walking used to be the most popular choice of transport in 1960, but it experienced a huge drop in 1980, from around 35% to about 18% and it dropped even
further
in 2000. Bike
users
also
slightly decreased from around 25% in 1960 to about 20% in 2000.
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rate by bus started from about 20% of the
users
in 1960
then
received its peak in 1980 with about 25% of the total
users
, but
then
it hit its lowest rate in 2000, with just about 18% of the
users
.
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