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

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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?

Cars have become an integral part of our daily lives. Over the past 3 decades it has become obvious that many metropolitan hubs around the world have become plagued by a gridlock cars. I completely agree with this statement and in this essay will proceed to elaborate my point of view discussing the various problems and possible solutions for them.

Firstly, the number of cars per household is more than one. To elaborate, many families living in the cities own more than one car resulting in many cars on the streets. This increases the probability of traffic jams. For example, a census conducted by the traffic department of the state of Florida showed that the average number of cars per family living in the city was between 3 to 4, which suggests that every house had 3 to 4 cars on the road when the day began. To snub the problem at its root, the government should pass a law whereby a household can only own a maximum of 2 cars, thus bringing down the traffic density by a huge percentage. In the case of Florida it would be 33%.

Secondly, the number of traffic jams have increased significantly at prime business locations during peak hours. That is, at city centers where the hustle and bustle of daily life occurs; the number of cars have significantly increased during rush hours. Consequently, the roads of such center have been devoured by these four wheeled monstrosities. For example, a statistic released by google maps showed that the average time per mile during peak hours was a whopping 15 minutes. In contrast the average time per mile during non-peak hours was just under 3 minutes. This dilemma can be resolved if companies encourage their employees to carpool to and from work. Further more they can take it up a notch by providing benefits to those employees who actively participate in carpooling, as a result minimizing peak hour traffic.

To conclude, traffic jams have become a common sight in many cities especially due to increasing number of cars per household and high traffic density during peak hours at city centers. Such problems can be addressed by the government by passing laws that restrict the number of automobiles owned per household and by companies by encouraging carpooling to work.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 486, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: contrast,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, thus, for example, in contrast, as a result

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 41.998997996 152% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1860.0 1615.20841683 115% => OK
No of words: 384.0 315.596192385 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84375 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6558210438 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 176.041082164 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5390625 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 581.4 506.74238477 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.2308287503 49.4020404114 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.333333333 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3333333333 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 7.06120827912 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224535485249 0.244688304435 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0732236395965 0.084324248473 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0544827198197 0.0667982634062 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140517518045 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0384396730583 0.056905535591 68% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.4159519038 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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