Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged

By promoting life quality in today’s world, people try to find ways to facilitate their own lives. One of the accessible devices for amenity is automobile. Millions of cars are on roads for this purpose. Conceded that cars have some advantages, we cannot deny the problems and difficulties arising from driving cars. Some of these problems are air pollution, noise pollution, and destruction of nature.

Considering air pollution, cars on roads dramatically affect the air. Recent studies show that millions of exhaust pipes release dangerous and toxic gases into the air. These perilous gases have instantaneous effects on the body. In fact, the main reason for air pollution in the last decade has been cars. Cars have incredibly more effect on air than factories do.

Taking noise pollution into account, sounds of millions of horns and engines annoy people in metropolitan areas of the world. According to W.H.O, high-pitched noise can cause stress and tension, and can bring about many psychosomatic diseases in the people that are exposed to these sounds. All people in big cities are seriously tired after a workday, because of additional and disturbing noise caused by cars.

On the other hand, by increasing the number of cars, governments are compelled to develop the roads. This subject has obliged them to destroy meadows and forests; in other words, it unfortunately deletes the nature. In recent years, millions of hectares of green and eye-catching forests are destroyed to make roads and highways, and it has so many adverse effects on environment we all live in.

No wonder, changing the form of transport will decrease the number of cars on roads and consequently will diminish the disturbing effects of such a huge number of cars. Developing transportation system and encouraging people to use them instead of their own cars will make the situation better. Public transport system is an appropriate facility for people of today.