Some countries have spent a large amount of money on bicycles. Why has this happened? Is it the best way to solve traffic problems?
With the development of automobile, train and other means of transportation, bicycle is becoming less popular for commuting around the world. However, there are some countries that are still promoting bicycle. The reason of this and its influence on traffic jam will be discussed in this essay.
The reasons for investing a decent amount of fund on bicycle can be considered in two aspects. First of all, bicycle is one of the representatives of healthy life which not only is a beneficial way of exercise, but also has no energy consumption and carbon pollution. In modern society, cars, trains and airplanes have brought plenty of environmental issues to the earth and governments have to spend huge amount of money and effort to deal with them, while bicycle does not generate these problems to human beings. Riding a bike is also a healthy and entertaining way of exercise which is something driving a car cannot bring to us. In addition, people riding bicycles more frequently could help release the stress of traffic in some level. In Europe, some companies encourage people to cycle to work, which avoids traffic in rush hour and saves time on the road.
Bicycle might be a useful mean to help traffic jam in some countries or some cities, but it is difficult to say it is the most effective way to solve this problem. It should be researched based on different circumstances. There is no denying that bicycle is popular and should be widely used in some countries such China, as they have better road conditions and buildings are relatively closer to each other, meaning it would not cost much time commuting to the destination. However, in some cities, even bicycle could be inefficient due to the limitation of large population and small area. For instance, in Manhattan, New York, riding a bike is not much faster than driving a car as roads are kind of narrow and they are always full of crowds. Additionally, with less protection than driving a car, cycling is much more dangerous and it would cause much more severe injuries if accident occurs, which is a disadvantage of bike.
To conclude, cycling is healthy in both environment and life style, and it is helpful to lower the pressure of traffic in some areas, which is the reasons why some countries would like to devote a big amount of money into bicycle. However, its effectiveness on completely solving traffic problem should be considered in different situations.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 866, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n rush hour and saves time on the road. Bicycle might be a useful mean to help t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, so, still, while, for instance, in addition, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 13.1623246493 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 10.4138276553 173% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 41.998997996 140% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2032.0 1615.20841683 126% => OK
No of words: 414.0 315.596192385 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90821256039 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51076378781 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77125889138 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519323671498 0.561755894193 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 642.6 506.74238477 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.6403357424 49.4020404114 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.529411765 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3529411765 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.70588235294 7.06120827912 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => 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: 0.328077295806 0.244688304435 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.097563393506 0.084324248473 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0790842011844 0.0667982634062 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200954639787 0.151304729494 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0347807269588 0.056905535591 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.4159519038 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 866, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n rush hour and saves time on the road. Bicycle might be a useful mean to help t...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, so, still, while, for instance, in addition, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 13.1623246493 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 10.4138276553 173% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 41.998997996 140% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2032.0 1615.20841683 126% => OK
No of words: 414.0 315.596192385 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90821256039 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51076378781 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77125889138 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519323671498 0.561755894193 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 642.6 506.74238477 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.6403357424 49.4020404114 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.529411765 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3529411765 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.70588235294 7.06120827912 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => 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: 0.328077295806 0.244688304435 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.097563393506 0.084324248473 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0790842011844 0.0667982634062 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200954639787 0.151304729494 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0347807269588 0.056905535591 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.4159519038 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.