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1 Do you agree that people should not have to pay to use public transportation.

When talking about whether people should have to pay to use public transportation, people always have a heated discussion. Some people oppose the statement that says people should not pay to use the public transportation arguing that this will be harmful for the revenue of public transportation. Nevertheless, I stick to this opinion due to following reasons.

First and foremost, the issue encouraging me to hold this opinion is that the free public transportation will help to reduce the traffic jams and in the large cities, one of the most serious problems is traffic jams and we have to spend much time on it. A survey made by a newspaper showed that the 80 percent of the cars running on the road are private cars. It is the main reason accounting for the traffic jams. If public transportation is free, more people will be attracted to use it. And the more people there are who use the bus or subway, the less private cars will be used. Then not only will the traffic jams be reduced, but also the pollution will be reduced. In the downtown, the major source of the pollution is air pollution caused by the automobiles. And if there is less use of private cars, this will also be improved.

Second,the policy of free public transportation could be relevant in improving the impression of the government. In this way, the government can effectively serve the public. In some countries, the people do not trust their government because the government does not pay enough attention to improving their life in terms of traffic conditions, for example.And the free public transportation is a very suitable and effective way to improve government image.

Furthermore, with the rapid development of the society, we face more and more pollution problems.One of the famous problems is global warming caused by the wide use of fossil fuels. Large quantities of fuel are used by private cars so the effective way to solve this problem is by reducing the use of cars. And the free mass transportation can have crucial influence on it. Since more people will be attracted to use mass transportation, fewer people will use their private cars. So free public transportation plays a very crucial role in improving the air condition. Admittedly, free public transport will bring some disadvantages. It will make more burden for the governments finances. Maybe it will make the quality of public transportation decrease too. However the free public transport can acquire more advantages than disadvantages.

Considering what have discussed above, we can safely get the conclusion that people should not have to pay for public transport and it will benefit not only the government