Some say that due to heavy traffic governments need to build more roads in metropolitan cities, while others argue this isn’t the right solution, and might cause more problems. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give your reasons and examples.

Some say that due to heavy traffic governments need to build more roads in metropolitan cities, while others argue this isn’t the right solution, and might cause more problems. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give your reasons and examples.

The significantly rising urban populace across has precipitated a phenomenal increment in congestion on urban roads. To surmount this challenge, some experts suggest establishing more road networks; however, the skepticals feel this cannot resolve the problem, but add to woes.

Expanding the road network in the urbanized areas os being proposed as a viable solution: it would help in alleviating the density of vehicles on individual roadways: the traffic would be diverted to the new roadways. Similarly, the expansion of roads would create more space for cars and other means of transportation. This would enable the authorities to ensure an easy flow of various vehicles.

Having said that, those cynical of this proposal feel that constructing new roadways would prove to be impractical in long run because the way the number of cars, trucks and buses, etc. is rising, the newly constructed passages would soon become clogged and the situation would worsen. Furthermore, the construction of new roadways would attract builders and developers who would either develop new residential, business and industrial complexes in adjoining areas. This would render the exercise of enhancing the roadway networks useless. 

Moreover, constructing new road networks would not only rob cities of valuable land which could instead be used for developing other more vital facilities for the inhabitants of urban locales but also cause an ecological disaster – by large scale felling of trees. Expansion of roadways would also mean allocating more critical financial resources to this exercise, resulting in wasteful public expenditure.

To recap, I feel that expanding road networks is not a panacea: this would instead cause a huge ecological disaster, and an unnecessary wastage of public money.  The need of the hour is to discover sustainable remedies rather than looking for expensive solutions that are provisional in nature.