Improving roads and highways sounds more attractive than improving the public transportation to people who own a car. However, considering it in a long term, public transportations are very beneficial for people's lives due to better environment and less traffic.
To begin with, the smoke that cars exert is very serious problem in this day. It causes a bad environment and global warming. Luckily, public transportation positively contributes to this circumstance. Since it can hold a big amount of people at once, these people don't have to drive a car that ruins the air in a fast rate. According to study, people compare the two cities that have a different environment. One of them has a great public system while the other doesn't. They obtained the water from each cities and measure the percentage of the pollution that the water contains. They concluded that the water in the city that has a good public transportation syetem is 40 times more clear than the other.
Moreover, when people drive their individual cars, it causes a huge traffic. Especially, the traffic is the worst in the morning when people try to go to work and school at the same time. On the road, it seems to be like no movement is going on. Due to this fact, people's stress levels tend to go higher everyday. However, if people take a public transportation, it reduces a large number of cars, and people definitely have a less traffic. For example, when I was in high school, I used to drive to school all the time due to a lack of public transportation system. Every morning was like a war. I couldn't move at all because of traffic. However, after my state decided to improve a transportion system, many bus stations were made, so I was able to take a bus, and the dense of the traffic was much loosen.
On the whole, public transportation contributes many benefits to the environment and society. Thus, government needs to try improving the system of the public transportaion so that people can live in better environment with a fresh air. |