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Sustainable Transport Solutions

The document discusses alternative forms of transportation to reduce car ownership and use. It notes that the number of cars has increased dramatically in recent decades, placing high costs on infrastructure and cutting into education, health, and other important budgets. To address these issues, the document suggests promoting underground railways, city bus services, trains, and non-motorized options like bicycles as environmentally-friendly alternatives. Introducing affordable river transport could also make alternatives popular and help the environment by reducing car use.

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Sustainable Transport Solutions

The document discusses alternative forms of transportation to reduce car ownership and use. It notes that the number of cars has increased dramatically in recent decades, placing high costs on infrastructure and cutting into education, health, and other important budgets. To address these issues, the document suggests promoting underground railways, city bus services, trains, and non-motorized options like bicycles as environmentally-friendly alternatives. Introducing affordable river transport could also make alternatives popular and help the environment by reducing car use.

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Academic Writing sample task – Task 2

Task 2A

You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

Write about the following topic.

The first car appeared on British roads in 1888. By the year 2000
there may be as many as 29 million vehicles on British roads.

Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged and


international laws introduced to control car ownership and
use.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge
or experience.

Write at least 250 words.

In the world, the amount of cars per household has increased alarmingly. This is
due to the lower cost of automobiles today. This topic is of particular interest
because cars are a harmful threat to the environment.

With the passage of time from 19thcentury till now transportation demands and
needs have been greatly increased. Dramatic increase of numbers of cars
especially in last three or four decades forces all states to establish bridges,
tunnels, highways etc. These different kinds of infrastructures and
superstructures have extremely high costs. Such costs affect on state budget and
leads to undesirable cuts of education, health and other services’ share in the
annual budget. As those sectors are so vital, essential and cannot be cut for the
sake oftransportation sector, stakeholders started thinking about new transport
planning concepts and strategies which contribute in solving all transportation-
related problems.

To reduce the use of car, we can introduced some alternative transportation


systems like underground railway, city coach service, train service, subtle train
etc. If the transports are easily available and comfortable, people will encouraged
to use those to reduce the cost of owing private cars. a non-motorized vehicle
such as bicycles can be the substitute for the motorized vehicles. Once people
are aware about the effects of global warming and air pollution, they will definitely
use those forms of transportations for their own betterment. Those vehicles are
environment-friendly and in some countries people have already started using bi-
cycles instead of cars, for example China. If we can introduce river-based cheap
and user friendly transports and try to make them favorite among people, then it
will be definitely helpful for the environment.

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