The rising levels of congestion and air pollution found in most of the world cities can be attributed directly to the rapidly increasing number of private cars in use. In order to reverse, this decline in the quality of life in cities attempt must be made to encourage people to use their cars less and public transport more. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Here is no doubts that our earth is highly polluted by various factors. It is commonly believed that private cars are the major causative factor for this contamination. Therefore, minimizing the cars on the road and encouraging public transportation among people would reduce the issue and I agree this statement because it has been a proven method in many countries. Firstly, the personalized vehicles, specifically cars, can create traffic congestion as more and more passengers prefer to use this due to its convenience. As a result, exhausts from these cars can be huge, which contain a lot of carbon footprints. This would raise the atmospheric temperature in an alarming rate. Eventually, in cities, life becomes miserable and may require air conditions that environment. For example, in a recent study showed that during the time of locked down, due to Ovid-19, private vehicles were not allowed in some countries for a long period, which resulted in reducing poisonous fumes in atmosphere. Another point here is to consider is that promoting public to use public transport system as this can accommodate a large number of people in a vehicle at a time. This not only reduce the peak hour traffic, but the amount of carbon emissions would be controlled. For instance, share taxi, car pooling, company vehicles are found to be useful and these are efficient, reliable and comfortable in many ways. Apart from this, commuters can have good saving and time for socialization. In conclusion, even though air pollution is on the rise, by adopting effective method to reduce the use of private vehicles can eliminate the issue for certain extent.