When Stanley Park first opened, it was the largest, most heavily used public park in town. It is still the largest park, but it is no longer heavily used. Video cameras mounted in the park's parking lots last month revealed the park's drop in popularity: the recordings showed an average of only 50 cars per day. In contrast, tiny Carlton Park in the heart of the business district is visited by more than 150 people on a typical weekday. An obvious difference is that Carlton Park, unlike Stanley Park, provides ample seating. Thus, if Stanley Park is ever to be as popular with our citizens as Carlton Park, the town will obviously need to provide more benches, thereby converting some of the unused open areas into spaces suitable for socializing.
In the given passage, the author concludes that if Stanley Park is to ever become as popular as Carlton Park, the town will need to provide more benches, thereby converting some of the unused open areas into spaces suitable for socializing. Here, the author has given several premises to strengthen the argument but these premises rely on stated as well as hidden assumptions which when considered, make his argument weak.
Firstly, author states that video cameras mounted in the park’s parking lots last month showed an average of only 50 cars a day revealing the drop in park’s popularity....
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