Cars in big cities

Cars can be very nocive for human life and, especially, for the environment, as they generate pollution (air, noise and visual) because of the fumes they produce and the noises they make. Moreover, traffic jams pollute visually and can cause inconveniences to people who may have to arrive somewhere. The effect cars make is worse in big cities, where you have to add the huge buildings, factories and overcrowding. Therefore, it is important to reduce the number of cars.

There can be possible solutions and measures governments could take to reduce the amount of cars in cities using taxes as a method. One of them may be making businesses pay for their employees’ parking, so they will look for a new place to relocate. Otherwise, they could try making enterprises or businesses pay a tax for each employee who goes to work with its own car, which may make the business adopt a policy of asking their employees to come to work by other means.

In exchange, governments could try to take measures by using education as a method. One possible solution is teaching people how better pedestrianized city centres work, so as people would prefer going to work on foot. Moreover, governments may make people conscious of the impacts cars have towards the environment, which may change people’s minds about using cars.

In conclusion, I think that the solutions using taxes as a method could be more efficient and easier to put in practice, as the government would only depend on itself for implementing them (in the ones with education they would also depend on the people learning).