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?

Some argue that traffic and pollution issues can be solved by making fuel much more expensive.

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statement is convincing to some extent, I disagree that it is as effective as it is thought to be and I believe that some other steps

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as promoting the use of public transport, can be taken into account for addressing

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issue. It is true that the governments have made policies

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as increasing the price of petrol. By doing

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, many

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may prefer to leave their cars and motorcycles at home just because they don’t want to spend a lot of money on refuelling them which is why, they will be more likely to plan on buying a bicycle or using a public transportation.

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some

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, especially families with higher incomes who normally own more than two cars, will continue using their personal automobiles as they normally are not as affected by the increase of expenses as middle-class families.

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, in my country Iran, nothing has really changed since petrol became more expensive which many of the governors claimed was a

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of controlling the traffic and air pollution. I,

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, do not agree that

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means is efficient enough. One great

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of having surveillance on these issues is to incentivize using the public transportation. To put

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into practice, the governing body should first allocate a great amount of public budget to expanding the metro system network, manufacturing or buying more buses, and even making safer roads for bicycles.

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will not only reduce the concerns about traffic management and air and ecological pollution but will

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create more jobs for

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namely driving.

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is to say, giving royal citizens who benefit from these urban services a yearly discount can

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be considered as a

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of fostering the use of shared transport.

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, in some countries around the world, the authorities have started public campaigns in which they inform

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about the positives of not burning gasoline

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the great effects of using bikes on our cardiovascular health and the

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that it enhances the amount of oxygen

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pumped to our brain. In conclusion, it is true that increasing the price of fossil fuels would help solve some environmental issues, but I do not agree that

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.

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I think there are some other ways like improving the quality of public transit, which might be more useful and beneficial in the long term.