▶ Your Answer : I believe that governments should spend more money on improving public transportation than on improving roads and highways for the following reasons: to clean the air and to save energy. First of all, improving public transit will play a significant role in reducing air pollution. It is obvious that increased use of buses, subways, trains can decrease the number of car dirvers as well as reduce automobile emissions. When governments and individuals take responsibility and actions to decrease activities related to gas emission they can solve pollution problems. For example, Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea, has free bus using day on every first Monday of the month to promote clean air in the city. Citizens happlily participate not only beacuse it is free, but because they also know it is for the environment. As a result, there is an increase in people who take buses instead of driving their own cars. This contributes to a reduction in greenhouse gases, creating less air pollution. Moreover, enhancing of public transportation will help to overcome today's energy crisis. It is undeniable fact that people will use more buses, subways, and trains when such public transits provide more fast, convinient and cheap service than cars. For instance, Korean government had invested in long distance railways in 1990's in order to provide better public transportation service. As a result of those investment, KTX, a high-speed railways, started its service at early of 2000's. KTX innovatively reduced spending time between Seoul and Busan which was usally taken more than 6 hours by cars or buses but now is taken less than 4hours by KTX so that people prefer to use KTX on long distance travel rather than to use their own cars after introducing KTX. It is clear that the more people use public transit other than private automobiles the less fossil fuel is used. In the long run, using KTX can attribute to less consume of fossil fuel. In conclusion, I firmly believe that governments should spend more money on improving public transportation for the reasons I mentioned above.
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