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Many countries argue that they have to invest in high speed trains between cities, however others believe that spending more money on improving current public transportation system is the better choice. Among these two arguments, I more support the latter.
On one hand, high speed trains can boost exchanging of people and goods between cities. High speed train system can shorten the time which used to take to travel to other cities by other existing transportation methods. For the result, more and more people can come and go between cities conveniently and the economy of cities can grow much faster thanks to the new transport. For example, Yeo-Su is a remote city from Seoul and it used to take more than 5 hours by ordinary train, but after KTX, Korean high speed train, line was bulit, it took only 3 hours, and the number of visitors has surged, as a result the local ecomony of Yeo-Su has grew enormously.
On the other hand, investing in existing public transport can be absolutely cost-effective way compared to building new railways. Generally, people tend to move to their near cities rather than far cities more frequently. For traveling the near cities, they do not need high speed trains, but cheaper and more frequent traveling methods are more necessary. For the reason, by investing in existing public transport with small money, for example, increasing frequency of buses can be more beneficial to many local people practically.
In conclusion, even though investing in fast train between cities can help to increase visitors and exchanging goods between cities, I believe spend money on existing public tranport is more cost-effective and beneficial to people. |