Some cities have vehicle-free days, when private cars, trucks, motorcycles are banned in the city center. Public transplantation like buses, taxis and metros are advised. To what extent do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
Nowadays, some cities have established days when private vehicles are banned in the downtown area, to promote the use of public transport like metros and buses. Despite some inconveniences it causes, this change is beneficial in general.
Undoubtedly, the use of public transport like metro can greatly reduce the energy consumption and the emission of harmful gases into the atmosphere. Non-government organizations and environmentalists have proved with precise calculation that a bus is only comparable to a few private cars or motorcycles in terms of carbon dioxide emission and oil consumption, but can carry up to forty passengers. Therefore, the pollution caused by an average person decreases. Also, less private vehicles in the city center means that bicycle riders and pedestrians will be safer on the streets. Previously, they had to watch out carefully for cars from all directions when walking in the busy areas, but with only a few buses on the roads, they can feel much more relaxed.
However, it is also pointed out that such prohibition of private cars and trucks brings about unnecessary inconvenience to citizens. For example, some people may be in a hurry to get to the hospital. Banned from driving his own car, he has to wait for some time before getting to a nearby metro station. Also, public transport like buses is often criticized for their low speed, because they have to stop continually at bus or metro stations.
In my viewpoint, benefits of such a proposal outweighs its costs, provided that the vehicle-free days are implemented properly. Setting up these days will inform individuals about the need to make their contribution to protecting the environment. The concept of using public transport when available can become deeply implanted, and this can yield greater benefits in the future, as people stick to this principle. Problems of such a vehicle-free day should be well addressed. For instance, citizens should be well informed through various methods about the dates when private vehicles are banned in the city center, so that chaos is avoided. Besides, buses and metros should be more frequent on these days, to cope with the sudden surge in the number of passengers taking public transport.
In a word, the vehicle-free-days attempts in some cities are successful from an environmentalist’s view, although sometimes the cost is convenience and efficiency. If problems are properly solved and all stakeholders are well prepared for such days, then these vehicle-free days would be beneficial.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, however, if, may, so, then, therefore, well, as to, for example, for instance, in general, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 41.998997996 143% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2145.0 1615.20841683 133% => OK
No of words: 407.0 315.596192385 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27027027027 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49157444576 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05687445006 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 176.041082164 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560196560197 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 665.1 506.74238477 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.2922794935 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.894736842 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4210526316 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.36842105263 7.06120827912 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.318821163381 0.244688304435 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0927261991062 0.084324248473 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0716338094299 0.0667982634062 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187175306068 0.151304729494 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0506046415875 0.056905535591 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 78.4519038076 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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