The bar chart shows the number of private cars, in millions, of different cities from 1950 to 2000.

The bar graph indicates the number of private

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in five cities (London, Beijing, Tokyo, New York

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, and Los Angeles) from the year 1950 to 2000. There are a number of different trends that can be seen for each

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over the fifty-year period.

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all cities grew significantly in private

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until 2000.

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, with the exception of Tokyo from 1980 faced

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a decrease in private

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. In London, the number of private automobiles boomed for thirty years and

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held steady at 3 million private

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, from 1980 to 2000 there was no increase in private vehicles. Of all the cities on the chart, Beijing started with few numbers of private

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in the 1950’s, but until 2000 Beijing was a steady boost of just over 2.5 million, Tokyo was the only

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on the chart that had seen a year-to-year decrease in private vehicles. New York

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and Los Angeles both saw

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massively in the first period of 1950 and both faced steady growth until 2000 but New York has slightly less than private

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compared with Los Angeles.