Public vs Private Transport

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Recently, the elevating figures of patients contracting respiratory diseases have raised the health personnel's eyebrows while mega cities are choked up with crawling car fleet, not to mention the wasted time, energy and traffic noises as well as let alone the driver violence and road accidents. As a result, governments and organizations have been working around the clock to contain such worsening trend in a number of ways. Obviously, Singapore authorities have been found successful in controlling the number of vehicles. For instance, because of the tax collected, a car costs three or four times as much in Singapore as it does in the United States and Canada, which effectively makes Singaporeans think twice before purchasing one. What is more, drivers must display special car pass, which is limited, on the windshield to enter the city areas or business districts so that there will not be more cars than the roads can possibly facilitate, which can be adapted by the other South East Asian countries. On the other hand, London's congestion charge has also been employed successfully whereas the introduction of toll gates has proven effective since drivers who are unwilling to pay the toll fees won't bring their cars in. Moreover, the annual reduction of the parking space is also useful as it makes the drivers' lives miserable, driving around in search of a parking spot. Similarly, European's strategy of promoting greener modes such as free city bikes is a sensible way as well, which practically reduces the number of private vehicles on the streets. Likewise, some cities have come up with the innovative idea of building free parking garages next to the toll gates where the commuter can leave their cars behind safely. By doing so, they get flexibility as they can still drive part of their journeys where it isn't congested and jump on to the public transport upon
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