Recently, there are lots of transportations in Korea, and our society has convenient transportation, like subway. Everyday, in Seoul, more then three million people use the subway because it goes most of the area. I think that transportation in Korea is the best convenient around world. However, road and highway are more exorbitant than transportation for example, every morning, people get to traffic jams, and there are many uneven road and highways in Korea, so governments have to spend more money improving many road and highways.
First of all, developments of traffic result in smooth transport. Our ancients made efforts for their social development. To develop their sites, they should have a lot of money; they had to sell their goods. They developed their road for selling their goods in advance, so roads and their society in terms of traffic were improved. For example, in 1970s, Jung-Hee Park wanted to be made Gyoung-Boo highway. Finally, it was made, and forever changed Korean’s life. Particularly, transportation was extremely changed. It became to smooth and economy was increased lately. Therefore, to smooth transport, governments should spend a lot of money developing for our society.
Second, improvement of road and highway reduce traffic jams. Nowadays, people experience them because pathway is not only very narrow, but there are a lot of traffic lights on the road. If the road very wide, people could be able to go to their destination rapidly. From my experience, I have been living in rural city for 20 years. Also, I have always felt that road is very narrow in my city before fixing pathway. However, local governments realized that my city’s road is too narrow to it have to be fixed, and they have fixed it. I feel, nowadays, good about the fixed road when I go to work place every morning. If transport is developed, it would be also improved surround city of road.
Third, if governments spend much money improving roads, people who drive for making money such as taxies, buses, trucks driver could work more effective. In the past time people suffered uncomfortable about road because the road was not only uneven, but it was not concrete road. However, recently, it is changed, and they can save their time, so improving road and highway is more effective than developing transportation such as buses, taxies, trains, and subways.
In consequence, for these reasons, I strongly support that road and highway are not only changed and improved by governments, but I think that the first is not transportation but road. It is value to invest to improve road and highway, and development of traffic and society are the same principle, so it is possible to develop local communities. |