The best way for governments to solve the problem of traffic congestion is to provide free public transport in 24 hours per day, and seven days a week. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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The best way for governments to solve the problem of traffic congestion is to provide free public transport in 24 hours per day, and seven days a week. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Gridlocked roads in big cities are probably a burning issue all over the world. To tackle this problem, it is said that fare free public transit is a key solution. I totally disagree with this idea.

Firstly, limited budget is an obstacle on providing free public transport all the time. In general, it requires a huge amount of money to run a public transport system, so policymakers have to take how to subsidize it effectively into consideration. In addition, it is not necessary to provide free services all the time since traffic jams only happen in rush hours. In fact, although many cities such as Estonia’s capital and Hasselt had a try, most of them stopped and reintroduced fare due to unsustainable funds. As a result, people using public transport because of free charge will come back to their private vehicles. In this case, traffic congestion cannot be solved in long term.

Secondly, there are some more effective methods than it. Poor infrastructure is one the main causes of congestion, so I suggest that governments had better invest in improving facilities. In Vietnam, especially in Hanoi and Sai Gon, traffic jams have been easied considerably since roads were widened and overpasses were built. Additionally, policymakers also can take into account an idea from Indonesia: travellers use vehicles with odd numbers on odd days and vice versa. In this way, travellers have to use public transport on certain days. Despite of its inconvenience at first, it may work in the long run since the number of transports on roads can be reduced by half. These measures not only can be used in long term but also is more economical compared to zero-fee transport.

In conclusion, free transport transit seems to be attractive for users, but it drawbacks make it not the optimal one. In my opinion, policymakers should consider other practical methods and combine them to cope with gridlock.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...and combine them to cope with gridlock.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, may, second, secondly, so, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, in general, such as, as a result, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1602.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 318.0 315.596192385 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03773584906 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86814519729 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.619496855346 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 507.6 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.8736697167 49.4020404114 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.0 106.682146367 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6666666667 20.7667163134 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => 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: 0.178710509052 0.244688304435 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0528730034517 0.084324248473 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0431550897766 0.0667982634062 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0965969276262 0.151304729494 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390034818658 0.056905535591 69% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.0946893788 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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