Whether public transportation should be free.
According to a reliable statistics on China Daily, self-car owners averagely increase 457 thousands per year. Since more and more people begin to use their own cars to go to work, there is a controversial issue that whether government should start a welfare that public transportation is free. Personally speaking, it depends on the economic condition of a country.
Generally speaking, the countries which have high level of economic conditions should take measures to make the transportation free. In one hand, this measure will encourage local residents to take buses. As we know, cars contaminate environment more seriously than buses. The pollution of environment will cause serious problems, as the acid rain and sandstorm. Taking buses can relieve such problem. On the other hand, this welfare will curtail the distance between the poor and the rich, which is beneficial for the balance of economics.
Some people may argue that this measure will cause car factories’ bankruptcy. I’ll reply that it will never happen because these factories can produce more buses and improve their technology of making cars. If exporting their high level cars to other countries, they will make more profits.
The countries which are poor and have a large number of populations should not take such a measure. First, the pressure of local governments is too heavy, they have to give help to more aspects, say the hope project and some downtowns. Furthermore, places which have public transportation systems are not poor, compared with the places which haven’t. It is no serious need to do this. I will cite an example. Li Cang,a small town located in southwest China, is so poor that local residents can not get enough food to eat. They surely don not have transportation systems. Their problems are more serious.
All in all whether public transportation should be free is depends on the condition of a specific places As Deng Xiaoping, one of the greatest statesman China ever seen says “facing the same problem, different countries have their own different but proper ways to solve .
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