IELTS Task 2 - Solving traffic growing Traffic is a problem that is increasing in almost every city around the world. The same can be said about pollution problems. How could governments solve this problems? Would be the rise of petrol price the best way to solve them? I desagree, because this is an emergential attitude, rather than a solution. Increasing the petrol price don't solve the main causes of traffic, so it can't be a effective solution. If people don't have another way to move in a city they will sacrifice their salaries to maintain the car spending. In addition, increase petrol price will affect the cost of a lot of different things, because petrol is largely used in industries. Not only gasoline price will increase, but also food (because the crops depend on vehicles to be maintained), plastic products, etc. Therefore, increase the petrol price will increase the cost of living and it can cause deep economic problems. Instead of force people to abandon their cars, it's need to offer different options of transportation. A way to do it is to be sure that public transport is effective. If people have access to good lines of subway and a sufficient number of buses by a cheap price, obviously they will prefer them rather to be stuckle on traffic by a large amount of time. Public transport also reduces the air pollution, because with just one bus it's possible to transport a large quantity of people. If everyone was driving a car, it would represents almost 30 cars in the street. Another main cause of traffic is that cities aren't well planned. People usually live far from their job and from the interesting points of the city, like cultural centers. It's important to plan cities that don't concentrate all important activities in central area, in order to avoid the necessary that people move through the city. If people's jobs were near their homes, it would be posible to use more enviromentally-friendly ways of transportation, like cycles.