TOEFL Independent Essay Topic 2: roads and highways or public transportation?

Although availability of public transportation is a really important issue, specially in big crowded cities,but ,in my opinion, Regarding fast growing industrial world, specially in car manufacturer field, alternation of roads and highways has become the most important responsibility of goverments.

nowaday, there are so many new, advanced cars which are manufactured and it seems that all families all over the world will have at list one personal car soon. In other way,although the quality of roads and highways seems to be in good range in advanced countries, however, there is a huge improvment insufficiency felt in improving ones. for instance, some goverments cannot provide enough intertainment facilities for people during holidays and people are obliged to take short vacations to get relax of busy crowded cities; but unfortunately they will loss their healthiness and even their lives because of the problems existing in roads. In my country - as a small sample- the rate of mortality in consequence of unsafe roads has anticipated the total mortality in 10 year war which we have encountered ! It's unbelievable that our enemy is not from outside of country and it has become the most chalenging problem here.

furthermore, one of the major income sources of goverment is tourism and the importance to have secure highways in a sightful country is obvious. Goverment will loss this huge source of money easily by ignoring the attention needed to bepaid to this issue. And this is what has happened in my home country. There are so many beautiful, exceptional natural sceneries in north part of it which whould not be found anywhere in the world, but because of difficulty in accessing, there has become a forgotted area that just the native people can enjoy it's beauty.

In conclusion, in my point of view, all goverments should pay more attention and allocate more budget to improve roads and highways and in this way they will make not only a secure traveling facility for their people but also a safe invironment for attraction of tourists.

Traffic management is in no doubt one of the major task often faced by successive governments especially in urban cities and it is often heard that milions if not billions are generally being spent annually to inrease and maintain the public transportation with little or no improvement.It is in view of this that I strongly support the statement that government should instead concentrate their effort on improving and increasing the number of roads and highways.

Firstly,If government spend money on proper management of existing roads and construct new ones it will be a better source of job provission to the populace where different job skill will be employed as opposed to only drivers to drive public vehicles, these will go along way to checkmate the uneployment rate.

Secondly,Improving the road-network is a better ways to manage congestion on the road as opposed to increasing the number of vehicles,the argument being always put forward is that it is better to use public transport than personal cars, but experince had proof otherwise because it is more convinient.Spending more money by government is therefore like buying baby dress for a spinster.

Inaddition,If government concentrate on improving the highways private firms can be contracted to provide public transportation since there is less bureaucracy(which often constitute maintainance problem)and can therefore manage better.

Inconclusion,Synergistic effort by government and the populace is required for effective transportion on our road and this will be better achieve if government can concentrate on maintainance of road while the private sector should be resposnsible for provision of public transportation.

Thank you for your advice,

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Nowadays, amongst the fast raising of oil's price and the environmental problems, people tend to use the public transportation more than they used to. However, there are still many people who use personal transport vehicles. So, should the government use its budget for improving roads or extending public transportation? In my opinion, the issue of developing a good public transportation such as bus and underground systems is much more neccessary. It not only helps people save their time and money but also reduce the environmental problems.

Firstly, we all recognize that everything is becoming more expensive than ever. Since the oil’s price non-stop escalates, many people have to pay the too expensive price for fuel. The best solution for people is changing their mind to use public transportation in daily life. If it is possible, people can save a lot of money for their personal transport vehicles such as cars, motorbikes. Furthermore, in some big city like London, or New York, people use public transportation as a tool to save their time. By using underground, they can get to work faster than using cars, and avoid many daily traffic jams. So, as a trend of life, public transportation has become very necessary in people’s lives.

Secondly, environment is the biggest problem in most cities. People like to use their personal cars because those vehicles make them active and free in their time. However, since there are so many people use their own cars, the rate of carbon emission is growing up causing the heat-trapping greenhouse gases, which makes the globe warming. If the government can improve the quality of bus and underground system, it will attract more and more people to use this kind of service and make the environment better.

In conclusion, public transportation is the measure for many problems in the society. It creates a better condition for people to live. So I strongly support the concept that improve the public transportation.

From my point of view the government should use a specific amount of money to improve roads and highways instead of spending the money on the public transportation system. In this essay I will concentrate on the high qualified employees and the dependence to an improved highway system. I like to outline my reasons for this believe in the following two points and will come at the and to a conclusion.

Firstly, everyone in the working world and especially the people who are high qualified are talking about the gap between “Work-Life Balance” in theory compared to the situation on the labour market. First of all, what does Work Life Balance mean: To wrap it up: Most of the employees want to have more time available for their families or for themselves to calm down or just to have an alternative to the working life.
What has this issue to do with the need of spending more money on roads and highways? Consider that: A large number of employees are working in a metropolis or a big city but are nonetheless living in small towns outside the city. For these people the public transportation is not very attractive because it would be very exhausting for them to take the train, bus and tube to get to their work and in addition to that, high qualified employees have often an unusual working time, so that it would get even more difficult for them to come close to their home.
As a result of this they are instead taking the car. An improved highway and new roads would give them the opportunity to save time every day, which would also improve the work life balance a little.

Secondly, and I think I speak for the sake of everyone, the public transportation is not a system to rely on! Everyday I use the bus or the tube something is going somewhere wrong and I have to wait at least a few minutes every until I can get to my destiny. To arrive in time with the public transportation system I have to calculate fifteen minutes as a puffer at least every day. For a growing and prosperous economy spending money on highways and roads is a compulsory factor, because when the employees are spending working time by waiting on the bus station that will cost the economy system a lot of money. With a improved highway system they can arrive in time to business meetings and.

To sum it up, an improved highway and road system is an important factor in an innovative and effective working world and will also held benefits in store for the employees.

Public transportation is one of the most important things the people consider, without bothering to get tired driving, feel relax just sitting on one corner of the bus, and by this they can go wherever they want to go. How the public transportation could use the highways and road if this is not properly operated? Spending so much time and money on one area would affect the condition of means of transportation of general public. So, I would say that the Government has not to concentrate only on one particular problem; it might affect the welfare of everybody’s living.

Let’s assume, in one city the public transportation are all doing good, but then the roads or highways would made everybody delays on their way home or office, this situation the Government must do some actions so as to use the public transportations well, because if they just ignore it later on their public transportations are now all in the auto machine, or some of it can’t be use anymore so another burden or expenses on their part, and likewise the general public or the commuters would benefit if this problem given some solution in advance. Vice versa if it happens that the public transportations are not in good condition anymore then they have to provide new one or spend money for the repairs of the vehicle that can be use. The Government must consider providing what the taxpayer’s paying.

In summary, I would say that this is not possible for the Government to just spend more money on one side because the people or commuters are their main concern. How can they provide good services if one particular problem is not given an action?

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Governments should spend more money on improving roads and highways rather than public transportation.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Introduction- I agree
More general
1. All people use roads and highways but not all people use public transportation
2.tax is given to citizen fairly
3. Public transportation will use roads and highways

Depreciation
1.every year
2.good connection

Public transportation can gain money
1.it can get money from the fee of the public transportation
2.I use it as well and I pay it quite expensive

Conclusion

Citizens and residents are forced by the government to collect taxes. The taxes can be used for providing facilities and needs for citizens and residents. In the transportation, government can give two alternatives to spend money: roads and highways and public transportation. Personally, I prefer that the government should spend more money on improving roads and highways rather than public transportation.

The first reason of why I agree is about the general use by people. Almost all people use cars and public transportation. Both people who use cars and public transportation utilize the roads and highways. If government spends more money for public transportation, it will be unfair for those who do not utilize the public transportation because they do still have to pay the taxes. They should enjoy the facility that is provided by government. Moreover, government should not be biased to subsidize the public transportation and neglect the roads and highways since government also realizes that not all people utilize the public transportation.

The second reason is the roads and highways depreciation. The roads and highways are perfect at the first time they are built; however, because either the vehicles who use it or the weather effects, the roads and highways deteriorates. It cannot be avoided. Therefore, government has to subsidize the money to improve the highways and roads. If they roads and highways are depreciated, they need to be improved by government. There will be neither individuals nor charity programs want to spend more money for the roads and highways. Unlike them, there might be individuals or charity programs who want to spend money for the public transportation.

The last reason is public transportation can collect money from citizen. I use bus to everywhere in my city. I do utilize it and I pay an incredible amount of money. I cannot protest or ask the bus to decrease the price. I have no control by saying that I have paid taxes for the public transportation in order to get a cheaper price. Therefore, the public transportation itself is not free. It can collect money from the people. I fail to see how government should spend money for the public transportation’s system.

In conclusion, government should provide money for the roads and highways rather than public transportation because roads and highways are used by more people than those who use public transportation. Furthermore, the roads and highways are depreciated through time. Unlike roads and highways, public transportations can collect money from people who utilize it. Therefore, government can spend more money for roads and highways

Governments should spend more money on improving roads and highways rather than public transportation.

Improving our road infrastracture such as roads and highways is one of the major things that should be dealt with by the goverment. Although, I don't agree that the goverment should be spending too much funds for funding those roads and highways. In my personal opinion we should shift on alternative solutions rather than private transportation.

The first reason why I think that we should shift our form of transportation from using private cars to public transport is that I think through utilizing public transport we can help lessen traffic jams. I used to live in Vancouver Canada , and fortunately the people in there have chosen public transportation than driving their own cars, and having the privilege to experience living in Canada and here in Los Angeles I was able to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the two form of transportation. Using public vehicles more than private vehicles can lessen the cars on the road thus assisting smooth traffic flow.

Therefore, without too much traffic on the way we barely experience traffic and everyone seems to be happy and can always attend to their obligations in time. Adjunct to using public transport is the savings one can get from paying the car insurance than if one is to own a car. In this case one can just keep it for more important things , which is what the goverment should also do to focus on other important things than allocating it in road infrastractures.

Another benefit that we can get from just using public transport is the contribution we are doing to the environment. Due the the advent of global warming I suggest that everyone need to be concern and do something in their own little way to at least delay the total onset of global warming. In using public transport we are kind of minimizing the toxic effects exuded by gasoline emission and thus we are helping the environment.

Finally, another benefit from protecting the environment is the personal benefit we can get from it. Without too much pollution which comes from using too many cars we can expect a decline of some of the diseases brought about by toxic wastes as the by product of pollution.

In my conclusion, it is better to divert our form of transportation sooner than later due to the advantages we can gain from it financially, personally, and to the environment. We should try to make this world a favorable place to live in which we can all benefit in the end.