The bar chart shows the changing patterns of transportation usage in a European city during the period from 1960 to 2000. In brief, the chart shows that the
use
of the car as a means of transport dramatically rose over the period shown, Use synonyms
while
the others fell.
In detail, in 1960 the motor car was used least as a method of transportation with only some 7% of the people using Linking Words
this
method but car Linking Words
use
grew steadily and strongly to Use synonyms
finally
reach about 37% of the population by 2000. Linking Words
This
was a massive 5-fold increase in handling.
Over Linking Words
this
same period, Linking Words
however
, the popularity of walking, which had been the most popular means of transportation with 35% of the population in 1960 having it as their preferred way of getting around, fell to 10%. Bicycle Linking Words
use
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also
declined from a high of about 27% in 1960 to just 7% in 2000.
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On the other hand
, bus Linking Words
use
was more erratic being popular with almost 20% of the society in 1960 and rising to a peak of around 27% in 1980 before falling back to around 18% in 2000.Use synonyms
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