Cycling is more environmentally-friendly than other forms of transport. Why is it not popular in many places? How can its popularity be increased?
The fact that cycling, which is widely considered environmentally-friendly, does not gain much popularity in many places raises certain questions about the reasons for this trend. Due to its tremendous benefits, the activity of cycling should be encouraged by some effective measures.
There are at least two dominant causes explaining why bicycles are unpopular. One principal reason is that in such a fast-paced lifestyle like today, people, especially those who live on the suburbs and commute to work on a daily basis, prefer to travel by car in order to speed up their journey times. While cycling is convenient and time-consuming for short distances, particularly in crowded city centers, it takes a great deal of time to finish a journey which is tens of miles long. Another powerful cause is that it requires a certain level of physical strength and fitness so as to cycle frequently. For instance, office workers, most of whom adopt a sedentary way of living, find cycling to work unthinkable as it is demanding and exhausting.
In reality, the use of bicycles could be increased by some practical solutions. Firstly, governments should pour more money into building dedicated cycle lanes and impose stricter road safety regulations. Safe in the knowledge that traffic congestion is no longer a problem and the danger of road accidents is reduced, cyclists would be more willing to use their bikes to reach various destinations. Secondly, workplaces including offices and factories should provide changing rooms and shower facilities to enable their employees to freshen up after cycling to work. Furthermore, enterprises could organize cycling events to encourage their workers to keep fit as well as socialize with colleagues after work and therefore help to improve their productivity.
In conclusion, while there are a variety of reasons behind the tendency of people preferring other vehicles to bicycles, this trend could be altered thanks to the availability of feasible solutions.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 581, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
... level of physical strength and fitness so as to cycle frequently. For instance, office ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, as to, at least, for instance, in conclusion, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1693.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 316.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35759493671 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07706099359 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 176.041082164 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.651898734177 0.561755894193 116% => OK
syllable_count: 530.1 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.276120083 49.4020404114 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.230769231 106.682146367 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3076923077 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3846153846 7.06120827912 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.166966141466 0.244688304435 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.051807267319 0.084324248473 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0376114547477 0.0667982634062 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0954575220863 0.151304729494 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0580737122731 0.056905535591 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 13.0946893788 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.17 8.58950901804 118% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 78.4519038076 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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