ESSAY 21

Governments should spend money on railways rather than roads. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

One of the crucial needs in the developing countries is to attract people to the city in order to boost the economy. In my country, this has happened naturally when the majority of people flock to the capital, Jakarta, every Eid Fitri, as there is a stream of newcomers after homecoming season ends. However, this has also created a problem in the form of transportation difficulties. Traffic jam has been a regular and an inevitable thing in the street of Jakarta. Some people believe that it is already time to build a more effective transportation system in the form of trains rather than relying on expanding roadways. I entirely agree with this view, and will further analyze the reasoning below.

Cars have long been a symbol of success for many people. In reality, as the economy is still growing, many people find themselves with more money than they have ever had. As the result, they tend to spend this money buying more than one cars although it is apparently a total waste to do so. Financial restriction to buy cars is not seriously developed by the government. This shows up in the ever increasing number of cars up and running in the street of Jakarta. All this goes to show that people won't stop buying cars, so by the same proposition, expanding the road will never be an effective way to give a better transportation.

The train is a public transportation that carries a lot of people going the same way together in a rapid manner as there is nothing preventing the route that leads to its destination. The only challenge of the train is how to make it more comfortable. As trains have become more comfortable and more reliable as parts of a bigger scheme in public service, people satisfaction towards train will also increase. When a majority of people choose to take the train as their preferred mode of transportation, we can hope that traffic will be lesser than before.

In conclusion, it is not effective to keep expanding the road as the data show people always buy more cars. Building railways for the train is a way to develop more reliable community service, one is profited by many people rather than benefiting only several of the riches who can afford cars.

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