Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged and international laws introduced to control car ownership and use.
What are your views?
With the enormous spread of private cars, people find themselves in front of a sensitive problem: should car ownership be restricted? From my perspective, the efforts to control the use of car will face reasonable obstacles; however the control needs to be assumed, at least partly.
Admittedly, it is impossible to completely change people's driving habits. Today, a car is something on which citizens rely heavily. First, it is simply the most comfortable and versatile private vehicle. In contrast with buses and subway trains, which go only to scheduled places and at a scheduled time, a car provides accessibility to a large amount of destinations and opportunity to be independent from the schedule. Furthermore, when it comes to trips between cities, driving private car turns out to be less expensive than using the services of public transportation.
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What are your views?
With the enormous spread of private cars, people find themselves in front of a sensitive problem: should car ownership be restricted? From my perspective, the efforts to control the use of car will face reasonable obstacles; however the control needs to be assumed, at least partly.
Admittedly, it is impossible to completely change people's driving habits. Today, a car is something on which citizens rely heavily. First, it is simply the most comfortable and versatile private vehicle. In contrast with buses and subway trains, which go only to scheduled places and at a scheduled time, a car provides accessibility to a large amount of destinations and opportunity to be independent from the schedule. Furthermore, when it comes to trips between cities, driving private car turns out to be less expensive than using the services of public transportation.
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