The rising levels of congestion and air pollution found in most of the world cities can be attributed directly to the rapidly increasing muber of private cars in use. In order to reverse this decline in the quality of life in cities, attempts must be made to encourage people to use their cars less and public transport more. Discuss possible ways to encourage the use of public transport. Use specific reasons and examples to suport your answer.

  These days, air pollution in found in many parts of the world and this is due to an increasing number of private cars in use. What we can do to encourage people to use their cars less and public transport more? Well, there are several things that we can do: we can make a lot of advertisements that can inform the risks of using private cars, we can give more benefits to people for using transportation and we also can moderate the prices of transportation.

     To begin with, advertisements are very powerful that many people remember even after several years later. It has strong impression on people’ thoughts that could change people’ mind. If we use these advertisements wisely, I’m sure that people will try harder to take transportation rather than private cars. We all know that it is impossible to encourage all people in the world to use transportation but it is plain that the number of people who take the private cars will gradually decline as the time goes on.

     Besides the advertisements, we can also grant a lot of benefits to those who use transportation. For instance, we can make a discount of 20% for those who use transportation when they want to buy something. Furthermore, we can make cards that allow people to change bus to train, for example, for free. This is being implemented in my country and this encouraged people to take transportation a lot.

     Finally, we have one more important thing that we can do to encourage people to use transportation and that is: lowering the prices of taking transportation. Supposing that if you drive your own car everyday and it costs you about 40$ per month. If you use transportation and it costs only 20$ per month, what would you pick for your everyday ride? Well, if you are smart, you will probably pick transportation. Unfortunately, paying only 20$ per month for using transportation is quite a hard thing to do in a standpoint of transportation companies. However, if the cost is changed to 20$, for example, many people will use transportation rather than their own cars and this can lead to lower levels of congestion and air pollution.

     All in all, there are a lot of encouragements we can give to people to use transportation for their everyday ride, as mentioned. The first one is to make advertisements and the next one is to confer more profits to those who use transportation. The last one is to moderate prices of transportation so that people have no pressures on taking transportation. I’m totally sure that these previous three ways can encourage people to use transportation more than their private cars.