These days, with the increase in incresing the number of population in many cities,
traffic congestion is becoming severe, especailly in commute hour. Some say
that rasing usage fare of roads is neccessary to decrease the volume of traffic
at peak-time. In this essay This essay will discuss about the merits and demerits about this
topic.
On the one hand, increasing tolls for peak-hour has influences on the
trend that people use cars in a positive way. First and foremost, if the
government introduces the policy that enforce tolls, some people who use their
own cars for commuting would change their ways of going and coming to thier offices
for saving their life to save their budget; that is, they use piblic transportion instead of their own vehicles or depart eariler or later. Through this methods, since drivers could
be spreaded by choosing another time or method, the whole people citizens can use more
uncrowded roads than before. In addition to that, if the trend can be changed
with this implementaion, workers/cizitens/commuters would not have to receive the both users who use cars on the peak-time and avoid
the time, can reduce stress caused by traffic conjestion. Therefore, imposing
more tolls in commute time could lead to effective results in traffic congestion.
On the other hand, there could bring about unfairness, inconvenience and
detrimental results could be brought about by enforceing peak-time tolls on the drivers. Firstly,
it is certain that the people who might be affected from this policy are in the
middle class, because they have to save their budget. Regardless of rasing tolls,
the rich would drive cars in the same ways; however, only the common people should would
struggle to save money and then it would lead to waste more time and money that
address their business. Another aspect is that the people who earn money by
using cars such as taxi drivers, would have a hard time get worse thier life because while the
income is the same, they should pay would need to pay more for using roads. Thus, increasing
peak-time tolls woud be a strain to some part of people.
In conclusion, imposing more
fare on peak-time would lead to comfortable and effective outcomes on this
problems, but it has a lot of possibilities that some people’s lives turn down to
the pressure. Therefore, to begin this method officially, authorities that
involved in should be thoroughly considered its drawbacks. (총평에서 말씀드리겠습니다.)