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Should Public Transport Be Free?
Many people take public transport. There are some reasons on why it should and should not be free. Some reasons on why it should be free include: everyone can have access to transport and when there is an emergency people can easily use public transport without its fee .There would also be less traffic as more people would be using public transport which would also decrease pollution within the air and reduce traffic noise. The reasons on why it should not be free are: the Government will have to pay for the transports to operate which would decrease their chance on funding things such as Health Care and Education. Crowding may also happen inside the transports and the more people using public transport means more transport vehicles would have to be used and some could be older and dirtier than others.
A reason why public transport should be free is that everyone can have access to it. With this people would not have to travel with their own vehicles as there would be no fee for public transport and that it would only waste more fuel which would have to be paid for to be refilled. Sometimes there could be a situation where as a person has an emergency. They could use the public transport to get to their destination without a fee.
Another reason on why public transport should be free is that more people would take it. Given this there would be less air pollution from the peoples’ vehicles and less traffic noise. There would also be less traffic blocks meaning fewer vehicles on the road. Road projects which take up more land would also not be needed anymore.
On the other hand though, public transport should not be free as the Government will have to pay for it. Given that the Government will have to focus more on funding public transport than Health Care and Education which need more priority.
Crowding may also happen within the transports, as people have started to use public transports more than they use their own vehicles.