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Monday, April 15, 2019

Personal Cars

Adventure Van here, reposting one of my college papers!

Despite the American tendency to buy personal cars, reaching two or even three per household, it is still a possible move to create a functioning metro system in the vast majority of cities improving involved from air to traffic. It’s also a helpful way in reducing taxes, as the fares would help go to that, as well as lowering gas taxes. And most transit systems are a good investment in helping communities grow and improve. I’ll be discussing the environmental and social benefits of building such public transportation.

Because of how the systems work, they help provide transportation at a lesser cost to the environment. Unlike cars, which use more oil per person that requires drilling to a much greater extent and then put gasses into the air and oil onto the streets when in use, the more environmentally sound option of buses take down the amount of oil and diesel needed to a much steadier amount. Because the amount needed goes down, the drilling decreases, as well as the gasses and leaked oil amounts.

As much as some argue that such damage is either nonexistent or not consequential, those are falsified viewpoints. The damage that a single car does is minimal, but with 20 people driving separate cars, it gets larger. When you build up to hundreds and thousands of cars clogging up a highway, the pollution it causes can sometimes be very visible, and very dangerous. Divide those thousands and put them on buses, and the damage caused decreases heavily, along with people still getting to their destination.

Building a metro system in your local area, with buses and subway/trolleys, will be extreme additions towards keeping those who do need cars in a much more traffic free area. Since fewer people will be forced to use cars to get around, the amount of cars on the road at any given time will decrease. And because the buses and trolleys are singular entities, it doesn’t matter how many people need to use them, any addition they add to traffic will be the same no matter the amount of people.

Even with the counter argument that such buses and trolley cars would be capable of adding a significant amount of traffic, it would still reduce traffic overall due to the condensing of people from multiple cars to one bus. And the only real problem would be getting directly stuck behind a bus for a large amount of time because you’re going on the same path, but then it’d be simpler to just take that bus instead of driving completely separately.

And any public transportation gives people freedom. Trolleys completely negate traffic jams just from their design, allowing more control over scheduling. It also allows those unable to have a car to be able to travel at basically the same speed, giving better access to jobs and other important events. Buses and trolleys are usually very bike friendly, allowing people to take their bikes to stops with them and therefore opening many more options of pathways and open doors.

I’m not saying through all of this that cars are bad. However, because we have such a large number of cars and such a wide extent of roads for them, they aren’t all that great, but more of a necessity. And although the cost for building a subway would be somewhat extensive depending on the area, bulldozing neighborhoods for highways is also costly and displaces people, as well as being a horrible detriment to local sightseeing. They also carry more danger, as drivers of cars can be impaired in such ways that a driver of a bus or trolley very unlikely to be.

At the end, it is a huge improvement to all circles of transportation and environmental safety to build in public transportation. Costs will go down, likely including taxes. Cars will be off the road, not only helping the environment but also putting a halt to traffic jams. There will be an extreme excess of access available to those who may not be able to otherwise get opportunities for jobs or housing. And such systems can be made to look beautiful, giving tourism a boost. All in all, it is a huge advantage for most population points to use public transit.



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