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 people believe that elevating the pricing
level
of
gasoline
would be the most effective method to respond
the
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increasing
traffic
and
pollution
issue
,
While
the method can be one of the options to combat the
issue
, I believe that the better response to address the
issue
is by pushing public
transportation
usage as it can solve them
while
causing
less
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negative outcome. The main goal of hiking the price of
gasoline
is to reduce the
traffic
and
pollution
numbers which are derived from the high
level
of private motorized
vehicle
usage. Increasing the
gasoline
price would not affect the more affluent group of people who still prefer to commute using their own
vehicle
as they still have spare funds for additional expenses.
On the other hand
, those in the lower economic
level
group will suffer more as
this
approach can potentially result in a pricing surge for daily essential products as many business sectors that use
gasoline
as
the
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fuel for their logistics will need to alter their pricing. In comparison, promoting public
transportation
is a better solution to
answer
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the rising
traffic
and
pollution
level
as it can effectively address various aspects of the
issue
.
Firstly
, public
transportation
modes
such
as buses and subways can contain more people in each
vehicle
, meaning that the road will be less packed, resulting in
less
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traffic
jams. In conjunction, the less
vehicle
used
also
translates to less
pollution
.
This
approach may be done by elevating the service quality in terms of comfort and convenience so that the commuters are more attracted and interested
to choose
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public
transportation
.
To conclude
, promoting and elevating the service of
public
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the public
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transportation
system is a better solution and response to combat
traffic
and
pollution
issues as it can address the various aspects
while
also
not causing additional issues.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Discourage
  • Incentivize
  • Alternative energy
  • Public transportation
  • Lower-income
  • Carpool
  • Ride-sharing
  • Congestion
  • Urban planning
  • Pedestrian-friendly
  • Tax incentives
  • Electric and hybrid vehicles
  • Emissions standards
  • Cleaner vehicles
  • Congestion charges
  • Bicycle lanes
  • Sustainable
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