The diagrams below shows changes in modes of transport chosen by travellers in European country from 1950 to 1990. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates data on passengers opting for various transportation modes in one specific European nation, over a forty-year span, between 1950 and 1990, expressed in percentages.

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it is clear that

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there were significant oscillations between means of transport throughout the timeframe.

However

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, vehicle users were the only category that recorded an upward trend.

To begin

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with, in 1950,

although

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the smallest share was accounted for by vehicle occupants with only 5%, it underwent a sharp rise, reaching 25% in 1970, and eventually hitting the peak as the dominant method with around 38%

at the end

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of the period.

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, bus travel experienced a moderate fluctuation, which commenced at approximately 18%, followed by a peak of 26% in 1970, when it briefly overtook the other modes, until it declined substantially to nearly 16%, losing much of its earlier popularity by the end.

On the contrary

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, both walking and cycling recorded a downward course. At the outset,

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pedestrians and cyclists occupied the first and second positions with about 37% and 27%, respectively, yet by 1970 their rankings had reversed, where each of them decreased, the former to the

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point and the latter to the third in the year 1970.

Finally

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, bikers bottomed out with just 5%, and pedestrians with roughly 7%.