The charts below show the performance of spending on roads and transport in four countries from 1990 to 2005. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The presented bar chart compares data about the proportion of authorities investing money in the roads and transit systems in 4 various areas namely, Italy, Portugal, the UK, and the

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between 1990 and 2005.

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, it was important that the trends of spending on transport and paths in all countries other than the

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were reduced over the period of 15 years.

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the diagram, Portugal, the main country that funded the highest percentage of the methods of travelling at all times, hit nearly 27% in the beginning,

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it fell moderately to one-fifth in 2005. Italy, the second country, scored roughly 22% in 1990;

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it declined to 20% in 1996;

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, it rose and reached the maximum mark at approximately 24% in 2000;

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, it dropped to just under 20% in 2005. The graph demonstrates that the

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and the UK, which hit almost the same portion as each other in 2005, had different fashion owing to the fact that the

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dipped from just over 10% in 1990 to 10% in 1995;

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, it grew somewhat to 15% in 2005.

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, the UK decreased to 9% in 1995;

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it touched the vertex at nearly 12% in 2000, but it went down to nearly 7% in 2005.