The first car appeared on British roads in 1888. By the year 2015 there may be as many as 35 million vehicles on British roads. Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged and international lows introduced to control ownership and use.
To what extent do you agree or disagree? And why?
It's my last essay's topic, but I think it's quite interesting.
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Alternative transport encouraged, yes.
International laws controlling ownership and use, no.
If the roadways get too clogged up, people will seek out alternative transportation on their own, in order to avoid the traffic jams. All the government needs to do is encourage private companies to provide that alternative transportation.
Obviously when roads become completely gridlocked no one will want a vehicle any longer. Especially if its quicker/cheaper to take alternative travel. I just found out the you can get to from where I live to the airport for much cheaper. I used to take a shuttle service which cost $45 one way. Now I found the metro system which costs $3 round trip. And honestly if you take traffic into account it's probably not too much slower either.
In America this is definitely a problem especially in the cities. Americans just can't get over driving there own cars. Even if it's just down the road or to work, or whatever. The worst part is 9out of 10 of the people are driving by themselves. It's crazy people buy these huge freakin vehicles and most of the time they only drive themselves!
The only way to do it is to make public transportation so easily available as well as a lower cost. Also to make the owning and running of a car that expensive that one would opt for public transportation. Think it would be great if they improve already existing mono-rail systems such as City C-trains. As well as expand on rail services.
