Governments should spend money on railways rather than roads.To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Carrying people and goods in roads, air, rail and waterways are quite important for a country for its development. It is often debated whether governing bodies should focus on the development of railways or land transportation and I personally believe that roads should get more priority as highway transports are cheaper, more convenient, more widely used and provide the last mile connectivity.

Laying roads is a cheaper alternative than building the rail network. The trains require a large infrastructure to construct its bogies, engines, platforms and so on and require a hefty investment from the government. On the other hand, roads are the cheapest source of commuting to places as it requires few labourers and raw materials. Citing an example, to construct a kilometre road, it requires roughly $25000, whereas to construct the same length of the rail network, the government has to allocate a budget of around half a million dollar. So it is more beneficial for a government to put more emphasis on the road transportation.

Secondly, roads connect the remote villages, houses and areas to the main city. Railways have more emphasis on making profits as they connect only major commercial cites from where they can garner maximum profit. Besides, the roads can be constructed in any terrain or location and also in areas where it is not practical and feasible to lay rail tracks. For example, Siachen is the highest battleground of the world with a population of few hundreds only. The government has constructed a temporary road to supply arms, ammunition, and food for the troops fighting at such a high altitude and hostile terrain. In such cases, railways are not even an option.

In conclusion, I will support the government to spend more on road networks than railways as it is more beneficial for the government to focus on roads, which requires less investment and can be constructed anywhere.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, second, secondly, so, whereas, as to, for example, in conclusion, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1606.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 315.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09841269841 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92002063933 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549206349206 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 486.9 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.2624414686 49.4020404114 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.714285714 106.682146367 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.106390303901 0.244688304435 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0370514956897 0.084324248473 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.040144568387 0.0667982634062 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0823729695798 0.151304729494 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0471023664045 0.056905535591 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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