When it comes to improving public transport standards people have different opinions. Some claim that existing transport should be considered and developed, while others look from a different perspective. They believe that the favourable investment would be to construct new railway lines in order to introduce fast trains connections between cities.
To begin with, in multiple cities there is already plenty of choice when it comes to public transport. Among them, you can mention a bus, a tram, a train or even underground. They generally have on main goal - to commute to a desired location in a shortest time possible. What is more, one’s destination is hardly ever in another city. It’s more likely that majority of people are using public transport to get to work, school or university. Therefore, why not improve already existing trams and subways? They are already a favourable choice for significantly larger amount of population as they omit traffic jams and let each individual reach their workplace on time. However, there are things to improve regarding them. It comes without notice that they are quite often overcrowded and unpunctual. Hence, the action that could be considered to aid that matter is to increase the number of trains or trams on most popular routes instead of building new tracks.
On the other hand, people following the view of investing large amounts on new railway lines for fast trains might not be completely wrong. I believe there is a number of people living in the suburban cities or towns which commute to bigger cities and this advancement would be an enormous benefit for them. Moreover, tube or tram previously mentioned tend to be limited only to a singular city and they do not reach neighbouring cities. Despite the improvements that would be done on existing public transport in the city centre, the residents would not benefit from them. Therefore, the proposed system of fast trains is an understandable choice in that case. However, that does not necessarily need to such a huge investment as it would mostly favour the minority living on the outskirts. Personally, I believe that currently there is no need for costly and advanced new trains and that their cost would be less affordable for city council.
To conclude, there will never be a golden solution for a problem with public transport. City centre residents will be voting in favour of developing existing public transport as there is already plenty of possibilities to commute. While, the ones living in the suburbs would appreciate more an introduction of new railway lines for fast trains, even if it means spending large sums. Considering several already existing transport alternatives, I strongly agree that this investment is more affordable and more likely to benefit for the majority of population.