In a number of countries, some people think it’s necessary to spend large sums of money on constructing new railway lines for very fast trains between cities.
Others believe the money should be spent on improving existing public transport.
Discuss both of these views and give your opinion.
Many people argue that it is compulsory to pay
a large amount of money to build new railway lines for fast trains in order to connect
to cities, while others maintain that the budget should be used for the development
of public transport already made. I will discuss the two ideas and also suggest
my own one.
A number of experts insist that the financial
investment to construct new railway lines for fast trains between cities would
have positive effects on overpopluation problems. For instance, the Korean
government has made various train railways to send as many residents in Seoul in
which more than 50% of popluation are living as possible to other
ones. With the help of the new lines, extremely high level of rent and traffic
jams which occurred much frequently have substantially been coped with. This indicates
that a rise of number of new railway lines for trains could be a great way to
deal with serious urban issues which the development of the given public transport
cannot tackle.
However, others assert that the improvement
of the existing public transportation for citizens is more important than the
constructation of more ways for trains. This is because the number of people who
travel between cities by train has decreased and is expected to fell thanks to the
utilization of airplane. As traveling by airplane has been general due to the increase
in the number of airlines and the decrease of the price of flight tickets, people
who go to other cities are likely to use them rather than trains. Since airplane
is faster than train in general, the latter would be more needless in the
future. Therefore, the investment for existing public transports is more significant
than for new lines for fast trains.
In conclusion, both views are somewhat
reasonable, I believe that spending a lot of amount of money on the improvement
of public transports already set is more beneficial. This is because the role
of train would be replaced by the more cutting edge technology, namely, airplane.