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

Essay topics:

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

It is proposed that government should disburse more funds on railways than on roads. For this essay, I would totally disagree with the statement. In my opinion, the wide range of interconnectivity that roads have, indirectly boosting the economy, as well as the amount spent on road constructions and maintenance have made it a better alternative expenditure for the government out of the two transportation means.

Within the community, roads provide easy accessibility for the movement of goods and services from one part of the town to another. This promotes a smooth way of conducting business thereby contributing to economic growth and as such, makes investing in roads a good option for community development. For example, the availability of roads linking my village to the nearest town has made it easier for my father who is a farmer to bring his farm produce to the markets in the urban center during harvest season. He pays his taxes from the proceedings of the sales of these crops, thereby contributing to the economy.

Also, construction and maintenance of roads are not as outrageous or specialists dependent when compared to building railways. In constructing roads, the companies that specialize in this area are available even within the country, making it easier and less expensive to build a new network of roads or expand the already available ones to accommodate growing traffic as the community develops. A good example is Nigeria. The nation has different road construction agencies like Julius Berger responsible for constructing major highways and the Federal Road Management Authority for maintenance. However, getting companies to construct railways outside of the country is an expensive option considering the foreign exchange policy and currency equivalence.

In conclusion, the societal growth, with an indirect positive effect on the economy and the cost implications of building roads over railways have made investing in roads a better option over railways

Votes
Average: 8.4 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, well, for example, in conclusion, as well as, in my opinion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1692.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 314.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38853503185 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20951839842 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.077665879 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576433121019 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 531.9 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.979370284 49.4020404114 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.153846154 106.682146367 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1538461538 20.7667163134 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.69230769231 7.06120827912 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177287684158 0.244688304435 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0689040316244 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0661580729761 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122414638681 0.151304729494 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.071217877119 0.056905535591 125% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 13.0946893788 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.28 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.6 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 78.4519038076 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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