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What measures can governments take to discourage people from using their cars?

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By no means cars revolutionized our lives, giving us freedom and making the world smaller. But this revolution has a dark side which is excessive traffic congestion, among others, in cities. It’s fair to say that the average speed on the streets of London nowadays is comparable to the one in the 1920’s. Definitely roads of our cities became nothing more than one bit traffic jam. In this essay I would like to analyse how governments can tackle this problem, what means can be used to unclog our towns and how to discourage citizens from using their vehicles. Just for the sake of honesty, I believe that the majority of local authorities are aware of such a problem and already started implementing reasonable solutions. One of the main incentives of using motor vehicles in cities is that these are faster, more comfortable and allow the public to reach their travel destinations quicker. If someone can cut half an hour from his daily commute he would definitely choose faster means of transport. If we want to encourage drivers to switch to public transportation we need to ensure that this one will provide shorter travel times, become more comfortable and more reliable. This can be done by a myriad of ways. Some of them require large investments - like building new entire rapid transit systems, other ones are way cheaper - establishing bus lanes on the most congested roads, or even such simple as introducing wireless internet and power sockets in commuter trains, so that office workers can productively use the time spent in the journey. Addressing problem from the other side, side local governments can try to discourage motorists from using cars. One may come with many ideas how this can be exercised. I would just like to mention introducing charges for driving into city centres, increasing parking charges or maybe even making them more dynamic, dependent on current traffic in the city. One idea that could be taken into account is to transform municipal infrastructure so that it forces the traffic to be limited. It might be slightly counterintuitive that, for example, making roads narrower would reduce the traffic. But this is what recent research suggests. Changes making it more difficult to use the car should, however, be done considerably. There are many people whose trade makes it necessary to use care in everyday work. This includes builders, decorators, delivery drivers and more. We need to make sure that new regulations won’t make them worse off. To summarise, we definitely see that increasing motor traffic affects our everyday life and congestion caused by cars cannot be solved by simply building more roads. Governments, however, have plenty of ways to resolve this issue, and some already started.
By no means
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cars
revolutionized our
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lives
, giving us freedom and making the world smaller.
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But
this revolution has a dark side which is excessive
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traffic
congestion, among others, in
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cities
. It’s
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fair
to say that the average speed on the streets of London nowadays is comparable to the one in the
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1920’s
. Definitely
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roads
of our
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cities
became nothing more than one bit
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traffic
jam. In this essay I would like to
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analyse
how
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governments
can tackle this problem, what means can be
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used
to unclog our towns and how to discourage citizens from using their vehicles.
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Just
for the sake of honesty, I believe that the majority of local authorities are aware of such a problem and already
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started
implementing reasonable solutions.

One of the main incentives of using motor vehicles in
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cities
is that these are faster, more comfortable and
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allow
the public to reach their travel destinations quicker.
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If
someone can
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cut
half an hour from his daily commute he would definitely choose faster means of transport. If we want to encourage drivers to switch to public transportation we need to ensure that this one will provide shorter travel times, become more comfortable and more reliable. This can
be done
by a myriad of ways.
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Some
of them require large investments
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like building new entire rapid transit systems, other ones are way cheaper
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-
establishing bus lanes on the most congested
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roads
, or even such simple as introducing wireless internet and power sockets in commuter trains,
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so
that office workers can
productively
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use
the time spent in the journey.

Addressing problem from the other side, side local
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governments
can try to discourage motorists from using
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cars
. One may
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come
with
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many
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ideas
how this can
be exercised
. I would
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like to mention introducing charges for driving into city
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centres
, increasing parking charges or maybe even making them more dynamic, dependent on
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current
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traffic
in the city. One
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idea
that could
be taken
into account is to transform municipal infrastructure
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so
that it forces the
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traffic
to
be limited
. It might be
slightly
counterintuitive that,
for example
, making
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roads
narrower would
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reduce
the
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traffic
.
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But
this is what recent research suggests.

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Changes
making it more difficult to
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use
the
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car
should,
however
,
be done
considerably
. There are
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many
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people
whose trade
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makes
it necessary to
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use
care in everyday work. This includes builders, decorators, delivery drivers and more. We need to
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make
sure that new regulations won’t
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make
them worse off.

To
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summarise
, we definitely
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see
that increasing motor
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traffic
affects our everyday life and congestion caused by
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cars
cannot
be solved
by
simply
building more
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roads
.
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Governments
,
however
, have
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plenty
of ways to resolve this issue, and
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some
already
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started
.
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IELTS essay What measures can governments take to discourage people from using their cars?

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  American English
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456 words
5.5
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