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Road travel takes a toll on many especially when you travel in major metropolises with high number of vehicles around. But that can all be reduced and turned into a benefit by choosing the right way for your journeys. The public transport way. However not all cities are lucky enough to have an established system but those who do have much to benefit from.
10 of them are Listed Below:
Reduces
Congestion
Who likes
to get stuck for hours in unending traffic? And there comes the metros, the
rails and other public transport saving your day. Much more people can come in
much lesser space in a public mean of travel than a private one. Thus reducing
the number of vehicles on road and reducing the time to travel.
Reduces Air
Pollution
Another
great thing about public transport is it reduces air pollution. A car taking
2-3 passengers would produce much more of harmful gases per passenger as a bus
with dozens of passengers thus reducing the carbon footprint. Lesser carbon
monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen – all go down.
Put an
electric bus or train into the mix and carbon footprint becomes even less
depending on the method used to generate the electricity.
Fuel
Efficiency Increases
A subway metro taking 200 passengers would use much less fuel per passenger than a car would.
Thus making that mode of transport fuel efficient. Furthermore it would help
the governments of poorer countries to import lesser oil to fuel transportation
and use that money elsewhere. Oil imports take a hard toll on economies,
especially the poor ones.
And this
could be seen across the world as countries reap benefits of public transport,
saving billions of gallons of fuel each year thanks to it.
Increases
Mobility
It takes a toll on people who do not own a car or can’t drive when they don’t see a viable public travel option. And thus when a proper system emerges to use, they can go to the store, their dentist, their college or school at will and at ease without being dependent on other.
It takes a toll on people who do not own a car or can’t drive when they don’t see a viable public travel option. And thus when a proper system emerges to use, they can go to the store, their dentist, their college or school at will and at ease without being dependent on other.
Communities
Benefit Financially
It is said
that for every dollar invested in public transport, a return of $4 can be
expected. A 400% Return! Property values rise, new roadside businesses,
restaurants, hotels etc. show up near transit stops – thus shoring up business
activity while creating hundreds of jobs. Multiply it by the number of stops
and you would see thousands benefiting through it directly and many more
indirectly.
Plus the
construction itself of such transportation system can get a whole industry
moving. Do the maths and crunch the numbers to get to the gist of this.
It Saves
Your Money
Not only
does it help you raise your earnings, public transport helps you save money.
Much of it. Avoiding self-driving can help you save on fuel, maintenance,
parking and other expenses and thus at the end of the year you could find
yourself having saved big money while avoiding the pressure and stress of
traffic – benefits unlimited.
Encourages Voting
With so many direct benefits to the traveler, public transport can also help understand importance of choosing the right person to vote for. Didn't get me? See. When you take a bus, you look for the one that can take you to your destination. When you fail, you try to find one that can take you closest to it. Same is the case with voting. Choose someone whose manifesto matches your mission, or one that has a manifesto closest to it. Got the point? Here is a tee explaining the above point.
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Encourages Voting
With so many direct benefits to the traveler, public transport can also help understand importance of choosing the right person to vote for. Didn't get me? See. When you take a bus, you look for the one that can take you to your destination. When you fail, you try to find one that can take you closest to it. Same is the case with voting. Choose someone whose manifesto matches your mission, or one that has a manifesto closest to it. Got the point? Here is a tee explaining the above point.
You can order it from here. And you can choose from different colors!
Improves
Social Life
Taking a bus or a city would help you reach your destination earlier because you avoid all the traffic. Thus will help you spend more of your time working rather than getting stuck in traffic. Thus giving you more time of your day to spend with family or friends or maybe even a vacation in the long run.
What more
would one want?
Gives You
More Time
When you
don’t have to constantly stare on the road, take decisions, find ways, avoid
idiotic drivers and more, you have time for yourself. You can make the time you
travel productive instead of getting stressed. You can read, study, work or
even entertain yourself in the time you commute and reach your destination with
relaxed mind.
It’s Safe!
Statistically
speaking, chances of you making an error while driving are much more than those
drivers trained for hundreds of hours to this as a full time job. Chances are,
you travelling on a road with hundreds of others careless drivers is more
dangerous than using a rail or a dedicated metro track with trained drivers around.
You Get
Healthier
Figures
speak. Those using cars to commute from homes to their offices do it while
sitting in one specific place while those on metros and trains have to walk
some distance to and from their destinations and transit stops.
So not only
do you benefit the environment while travelling with others, you help yourself
along. You get less stressed, you save time, you save money and you get
healthier among other rewards.
But the
biggest question is, do you have a good transport system around to reap these
benefits from? If not, push your governments to get you one.