The bar chart illustrates the variety of transport which were used to commute either to or from work in one city in Europe from 1960 to 2000.

It is clear that

in 1960 the vast majority of citizens used buses,

whereas

by 2000, the demand for them decreased significantly and they were substituted by cars.

Overall

, we can see that trains and the

tube

were relatively equally popular throughout the period. Focusing first on buses and cars, in 1960 the percentage of commuters using the public transport mentioned before was at the level of 40%, compared to only slightly more than 5% of those who commuted by car. By 2000, the situation became absolutely opposite, with nearly 40% of trips done by private transport, and only 15% by buses. In 1980, roughly 25% of people travelled by both types of transport. As for the other two types of vehicles, 20 to 30% of citizens went to or from work by train or

tube

in 1960,

whereas

in 1980

this

figure increased to almost 30% for train lovers, as opposed to approximately 30% of those

preferred

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tube

. By 2000, the proportion of

comutters

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commuters

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going by train or

tube

was at the level of between 22 and 25 per cent.