Cycling is a healthier and more environmentally friendly form of transport. Nevertheless, cycling is getting less popular. What are the reasons of this trend? What can be done to make cycling more popular?
Despite beneficial effects to the health and to the environment, the popularity of bicycle is phasing out in the society. This essay will disclose reasons that contribute to this change, and provide solutions to encourage this transport.
There are several factors that underlie the decreasing prevalence of bicycle in daily life. Firstly, as more people tend to live further from the central areas, many employees have become commuters. In other words, they have to travel distantly to work; therefore, vehicles like car or commuter rail seem to be the suitable vehicle. Additionally, urban cities at present usually deal with high stage of air pollution, which makes cycling unsafe for use on daily basis.
In order to increase use of bicycle, government can simply impose regulation that restrict other private vehicles. For example, authorities would introduce a ban of motorized transports in certain areas, and make bicycle the only possible choice there. However, such top-down legislation may cause unwanted consequences and it does not actually encourage cycling habit in the long run.
In my opinion, the better way to support cycling habit is to generate complimentary benefits for daily cyclists. The government should invest in construction of infrastructure dedicated only for bicycle users. Authorities should also build free bicycle keeping places on the street. In many parts of the world, for example in the Netherlands or Singapore, due to such convenient facilities, bicycle riders now account for the majority of their population. Besides, governmental establishments should educate urban citizens about the advantages of cycling every day. This would motivate people who are in search of a healthy life, therefore can be a supporter to infrastructure improvement in encouraging cycling habit.
In conclusion, in light of living far from work and pollution in metropolitan areas, the popularity of bicycle is decreasing. However, by legislation and facility improvement, this environmentally friendly habit can be recovered again.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, so, therefore, for example, in conclusion, in my opinion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 24.0651302605 50% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1753.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 313.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.60063897764 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03844784006 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.632587859425 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 560.7 506.74238477 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => 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: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 22.8295928877 49.4020404114 46% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 103.117647059 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4117647059 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06120827912 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.209737629489 0.244688304435 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0579081038506 0.084324248473 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.046297133437 0.0667982634062 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112587534288 0.151304729494 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0271099741028 0.056905535591 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.28 50.2224549098 72% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.2 12.4159519038 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.67 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 78.4519038076 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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