how to improve transportation

how to improve transportation
If you live in such a big city----Beijing-----as I do, with so terrible a
traffic situation, you will not be surprised of involving in a heated
debate of whether the government should spend more money on
improving roads and highways, or should they put money on public
transportation improvement. However, as far as I am concerned, this
is not a conflict issue, that governments should combine the
efficacies of both the two means in order to ameliorate the traffic
status at present. Improving roads and highways, which is a fact that
everyone knows, can bring about various advantages. First of all, to
construct more roads and highways means that more vehicles, in
other words, more people, could travel to their destinations more
convenient and faster. People now live in the suburb of Beijing but
work in the center, are good case in point, whose homes are only
several kilometers from downtown, ironically have to rent a house
near their work places because of it will take them hours to go home
for the bad condition of the roads and the lack of highways. On the
other hand, for the government, as a matter of fact, a high inputoutput ratio is desirable, and the highways which are profitable are
capable of prospering the economy, and indeed, raise the national
revenue. Is this attractive to any government?
Improving public transportation such as buses, trains, subways,
which are involved in people's everyday life, is also of great
significance, especially for those who do not have personal
transportations and have to choose either buses or subways to go to
work or go school, and more over, for such a big city as Beijing
that has an enormous population.
Since it is the government's responsibility to improve the public
facilities including public transportation as to make its people leading
a better life, money should also be put on this aspect. Taking into
account all the factors mentioned above and combining with the
character of the city I am now living, I perceive that the government

should put more money on improving roads and highways,
meanwhile, use the income of them to develop my city's public
transportation as well.