Cycling has many benefits , yet in some countries there is a decrease in number of people using bicycles as their main form of transport. Why is it happening ? give suggestions how to encourage people to use bicycles again.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own experience or knowledge.
Write at least 250 words.
It is undeniable that cycling has many positive impacts. However, there is a decline in some nations of using bicycles as the main mode of transport. Nevertheless, there are reasons related to such trend and ways to encourage bicycle usage.
To begin with, one reason why people to show tend to show less interest in bicycle use is the cheaper prices of other transport mode, private cars in particular. In Botswana for instance, the prices of private cars are very low due to massive competition among car dealers. Even more, the tax involved in importing private cars is very reasonable. Following such costs, citizens do not find a reason to resorting to bicycles as transport modes as majority could afford to buy a car.
Furthermore, the design of roads in some countries are not suited for cyclists. Most have been designed for motorists thus making it risky for cyclists to use such roads. For example, most town roads in South Africa are for speeding cars, hence cyclists are at risk of being knocked down by cars. This culminates in most people not finding a need to buy bicycles as roads are unaccommodative for cyclists.
Additionally, some cultures prohibits females to ride bicycles. The Setswana culture to be precise. This is so because they believe bicycles might cause a girl child to lose her virginity. Consequently, females resort to obey cultural norms and values, thus reducing the number of people using bicycle as a mode of transport.
However, some ways to encourage people to use bicycle again could be devised. Firstly, government could increase private car tax. This will lead to most people not affording private cars hence resorting to alternative means. Moreover, communities could form cycling clubs in order to increase awareness as well as encouraging people in such societies to use bicycles.
In conclusion, bicycle use is in decline due to some reasons, however there are ways to encourage bicycle use again.
Discourse Markers used:
['consequently', 'first', 'firstly', 'furthermore', 'hence', 'however', 'moreover', 'nevertheless', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'for example', 'for instance', 'in conclusion', 'in particular', 'as well as', 'to begin with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.282548476454 0.247107183377 114% => OK
Verbs: 0.180055401662 0.155533422707 116% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0803324099723 0.0946595960268 85% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0720221606648 0.0501214627716 144% => OK
Pronouns: 0.01108033241 0.0437548338989 25% => Some pronouns wanted.
Prepositions: 0.108033240997 0.122226691241 88% => OK
Participles: 0.0609418282548 0.0403226058552 151% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.71731754921 2.80594681477 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0637119113573 0.0326793684256 195% => Less infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.00277008310249 0.00163938923432 169% => OK
Determiners: 0.0581717451524 0.0861772015684 68% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.016620498615 0.021408717616 78% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00277008310249 0.011925033212 23% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1956.0 1933.35771543 101% => OK
No of words: 323.0 316.048096192 102% => OK
Chars per words: 6.05572755418 6.12580529183 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.20517956788 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.368421052632 0.374742101984 98% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.300309597523 0.28420135186 106% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.210526315789 0.203846283523 103% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.120743034056 0.137316102897 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71731754921 2.80594681477 97% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 176.037074148 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53560371517 0.56093040696 95% => OK
Word variations: 56.3041403713 60.7387585426 93% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0891783567 124% => OK
Sentence length: 16.15 20.7743622355 78% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.2866458462 49.517814964 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.8 127.492653851 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.15 20.7743622355 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.85 0.814263465372 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38877755511 137% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 46.1809597523 49.1944974215 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.71578947368 1.69124875643 101% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.456898486066 0.332605444948 137% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.105497393416 0.102741220458 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0788812987296 0.0668466124924 118% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.558049581903 0.534860350844 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.152256698137 0.148594505496 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.161276351836 0.134430193775 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0840368528607 0.0742795772207 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.25294844324 0.324371583561 78% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0763865726817 0.0638462369009 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.282768718866 0.228012699653 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0602810997778 0.058150111329 104% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.68436873747 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.41683366733 234% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 7.0 5.90881763527 118% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.5751503006 116% => OK
Neutral topic words: 8.0 1.9629258517 408% => Less neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 18.0 10.4468937876 172% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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