You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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. Write at least 150 words.

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

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.

Write at least 150 words.
This
graph illustrates the proportion of the modes of
travel
to and from work in a city in Europe in three different years.
According to
this
,figure
people
mainly used the bus, car, or bike as their transport service
while
some
people
travel
by foot in the years of 1960,1980, and 2000.
It is clear that
the rate of citizens using cars for transportation was getting sharply increased over all
this
time. The proportion of going and returning from work by bike and foot decreased significantly.
Although
in 1980,
people
mostly used buses and rarely went by their own foot,
whereas
in 1960 the most popular
travel
method was walking.
However
Add a comma
,However
show examples
the usage of buses was highest in 1980
while
it showed its lowest percentage in 2000.
Overall
, we can see that the usage of cars had been increased in 2000 more than any other method. On the other ,hand
people
were avoid bikes as their
travel
method to work in 2000.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
Vocabulary: Replace the words travel, people with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.

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