With the development of my hometown in the past few years, the population is expanding very fast. The city is experiencing not only a higher birthrate than ever but also waves of immigration.
The streets in the city are crowed or even jammed during the rush hours. If I could change one thing about my hometown, I would develop an advanced public traffic system.
In order to hold such an exploding population, the city has extended miles by miles without much plan. It is common for people to travel from the south most part to the north most part of the city to go to work every day. They have to spend three hours or more on the way they go to work and come home. Eight hours work is a heavy burden, while people have to spend hours before and after work. A subway running through or around the city can solve the problem. People could live further away from downtown without worrying about spending too much time on the way.
Some people buy their own car or take a taxi to work every day. It is really expensive for most of the people in the city. They cant afford to pay so much on traffic fares. Many civil engineering experts advocate that sharing a public traffic system is the most efficient way. People could reduce their fares a lot by using the public traffic system, and they can spend the money on some other things.
Even there are more and more people who can afford to buy a car or taking taxi every day, It is still suggested to using the public traffic system. Because road development can never keep up with the demand of the increasing cars, the cars may jam on the roads during rush hours.
Usually, the speed of the car at that time is no higher than a bicycle! And pollution is another concern. So many private cars running in the city will bring us an environmental problem. On the other hand, the pollution from the public traffic system is much lighter.
All in all, an advanced public traffic system time efficient, cost-efficient, and pollution preventing.
This is the trend of advanced cities.
