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| Ielts Essay Public Transport |
The proposal of laying Public modes of
transportation free of cost at the disposal of people has become a
controversial issue: although it promises to offer certain merits on the
grounds of affordability, it also carries many pitfalls: it may pose hardships
for the state.
Offering public modes of travelling would go
a long way in helping the needy sections of teh society, especially the poor -
who are unable to travel farther from their homes to get appropriate employment due to not
being able to afford even the nominal fares, the students and the old - who do
not have any source of income. This would ease burden of having to pay for
travelling, off these classes, and they would find it easy to use the money
saved in other critical areas.
However / Having said that, it is hard to
overlook associated challenges with the proposal. When public mediums would be
offered at no cost, it may provoke people to misuse the facilities, like
travelling for leisure and without purpose. It is a commonly believed that
people only respect something when it comes at a price.
On the top of that, implementation of free
public transport policy is bound to create several problems for the government:
it will find it hard to meet expenses incurred on expanding the fleet;
maintaining the assets; and paying the concerned staff, as there will be no
means to earn revenue for these services. Consequently, all the money will have
to be sourced from the government treasury.
Hence, I feel that offering public modes of
commuting to everybody would be highly disadvantageous. These services, in my
view, should be only offered to the needy, and the ones who can afford should
be made to pay.
