Should governments spend more money on improving roads and highways, or should governments spend more money on improving public transportation (buses, trains, subways)? Why? Use specific reasons and details to develop your essay.

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Should governments spend more money on improving roads and highways, or should governments spend more money on improving public transportation (buses, trains, subways)? Why? Use specific reasons and details to develop your essay.

Public transportation is a very important aspect of a modern city. It is essential in large cities and millions of population use it in huge cities like New York, Tokyo and etc.I think governments should spend more money on improving public transportation rather than improving roads and highways because of three main reasons.

First, it can help the environment and reduce air polution. As you know one of the most callenging problems that major cities are face is air pollution. For example, in Tehran, my home city, the air is always polluted and unclear. As the reports say, many people die because of heart diseases and cancer, and air pollution has a major key in such cases. I think a city like Tehran has an advanced and comfortable public transportation, more people will be encouraged to use it, since it is cheaper and can save them money. This will lead to less usage of personal cars and will contribute a lot to air cleanness.

Second, it can reduce traffic. Traffic in huge cities have become a big problem that affects people psychologically and improving public tramsportaition can make it better. When you are in hurry to get to your work or an important deal, being trapped in traffic is really annoying. I remember that once I was going for a job interview and I was late already, and the traffic caused me to arrive to the office even later. The amount of stress I had in that was something that I cannot put it in words. I think with a proper transportation system, there will be less trafic and so people's life will get better and healthier. Furthermore the cities will be less crowded and look more beautiful.

Third, if governments spend money on public transportation, every one would benefit from it. Conversely improving roads and highways will be more beneficial for those who tend to use their private vehicles a lot and this doesn't seem just enough. So, I think with a proper public transportation every one would benefit. Those prefering to use public transportation will have more convinient trips, those who prefer to use private vehicles will enjoy less traffic, and even more those prefering to walk or bicycle can enjoy pretty less crowded streets.

In sum I think spending money on public transportation is a kind of investment that can solve many problems and surely the money spent on it will not be wasted. In the end I want to indicate that the reasons I provided don't mean the governments should spend nothing on highways and road, since it will have a lot of advantages too. But I think there should be a kind of planning for the governments' budget and it seems wiser to spend more on public transportation.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...he environment and reduce air polution. As you know one of the most callenging pro...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, furthermore, if, look, really, second, so, third, for example, i think, kind of, you know

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 9.8082437276 234% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 25.0 13.8261648746 181% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 43.0788530466 104% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 52.1666666667 90% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.0752688172 198% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2207.0 1977.66487455 112% => OK
No of words: 463.0 407.700716846 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76673866091 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79580768972 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483801295896 0.524837075471 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 680.4 618.680645161 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.8565559941 48.9658058833 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.318181818 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0454545455 20.6045352989 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.13636363636 5.45110844103 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.5376344086 126% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282786589758 0.236089414692 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0790741865889 0.076458572812 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0922958201281 0.0737576698707 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191666629541 0.150856017488 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.122490646036 0.0645574589148 190% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 86.8835125448 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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