Car ownership has increased so rapidly over the past thirty years that many cities in the world are now 'one big traffic jam'.
How true do you think this statement is?
What measures can governments take to discourage people from using their cars??
Thanks to advancements in technology, leading to reduction in the cost of vehicles, many people in our societies now own cars. This phenomenon that started three decades ago, has seen our roads flooded with cars, and the consequence is an ever increasing traffic jam. To solve this problem, our government can take a number of approaches to dissuade the use of personal motors.
One way to discourage the use of personal automobiles is to encourage the use of public transportation. Government can achieve this by reducing the cost of the tickets and by creation of more bus stops. Our public transport systems today, are very expensive to commute with. It is far cheaper for one to go to work with his own car than take the available public buses. Also, commuters will be happy to see that the public buses will stop them very close to their destinations. The bus stops we have currently are not properly planned. For example, the nearest bus stop to my office is about one kilometer away. It implies that if I have to use public transport to go to work, I will have to trek a long distance from the bus stop to my office. However, if more parks are built and these gaps are closed up to within one hundred meters, many people will be encouraged to join the mass transit buses.
Another way to discourage the use of personal cars is by imposing some taxes on vehicles that are on the roads. In Lagos State for example, what the state did was to build toll gates and to pass through it, each vehicle is required to pay a certain amount. They also introduced car-use levies that each motor is expected to pay on monthly basis, as long as they want to run on the roads for that month. These fees made the use of individual cars very expensive and people avoided them. As a result, our roads became free from long stationary queues of vehicles.
In conclusion, it will be nice to see the problems traffic jams on our roads solved. Our leaders can achieve this by making public transportation appealing to the masses and by imposing some levies on the use of personal cars.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 511, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'been'.
Suggestion: been
...ations. The bus stops we have currently are not properly planned. For example, the ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'as to', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'as a result']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.240196078431 0.247107183377 97% => OK
Verbs: 0.171568627451 0.155533422707 110% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0759803921569 0.0946595960268 80% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0416666666667 0.0501214627716 83% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0539215686275 0.0437548338989 123% => OK
Prepositions: 0.115196078431 0.122226691241 94% => OK
Participles: 0.0392156862745 0.0403226058552 97% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.52420236552 2.80594681477 90% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0661764705882 0.0326793684256 203% => Less infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.00245098039216 0.00163938923432 150% => OK
Determiners: 0.093137254902 0.0861772015684 108% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0196078431373 0.021408717616 92% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00735294117647 0.011925033212 62% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2075.0 1933.35771543 107% => OK
No of words: 373.0 316.048096192 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.56300268097 6.12580529183 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39467950092 4.20517956788 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.29490616622 0.374742101984 79% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.222520107239 0.28420135186 78% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.142091152815 0.203846283523 70% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.088471849866 0.137316102897 64% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52420236552 2.80594681477 90% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 176.037074148 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517426273458 0.56093040696 92% => OK
Word variations: 56.1273093798 60.7387585426 92% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0891783567 118% => OK
Sentence length: 19.6315789474 20.7743622355 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.5851985021 49.517814964 58% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.210526316 127.492653851 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6315789474 20.7743622355 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.421052631579 0.814263465372 52% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.99599198397 25% => OK
Readability: 41.8835896712 49.1944974215 85% => OK
Elegance: 1.47706422018 1.69124875643 87% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.277428961338 0.332605444948 83% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.103501494001 0.102741220458 101% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0779846167118 0.0668466124924 117% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.513329672902 0.534860350844 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.139437977781 0.148594505496 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113740246477 0.134430193775 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0396769547719 0.0742795772207 53% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.391703403112 0.324371583561 121% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0203495929529 0.0638462369009 32% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.2004254817 0.228012699653 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0378475859012 0.058150111329 65% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.68436873747 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.41683366733 88% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 5.90881763527 85% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 2.5751503006 272% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 1.9629258517 153% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 10.4468937876 144% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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