What are the pros and cons of Public Transport?

Public transport is one of the key of the success of every urban area since let its inhabitants to stay in contact and get to their works respectively. However, in many cases its quality is far from being excellent. Therefore, in this essay I will try to discuss the pros and cons of Public transport.

Let’s start by looking at the advantages. First, public transport is the primary way for people whom doesn’t have any other way of transport. For example, people who doesn’t have a car or any private transport system is really a great help.

Second, if the public transport worked properly, it would leap up the synergy and dynamic of a city. A great example is the Dutch cities   as Amsterdam or Rotterdam, where the public transport is cheap and it is extended to any corner of the cities and having an adequate frequency of its units.

On the other hand, the main disadvantage is that for many cases, it is slower than driving a private car o taking a taxi. For instance, in Santiago it could take the double of time taking a bus rather than riding by a cycleway. Another major drawback is the demand and the no respect of the user’s capacity in the units. In this term there are many examples such as in the buses of the main cities of Latin America, the underground’s system of Tokyo, tec.

To sum up, public transport can connect the people inside the cities, although it carriages many problems as being slow and the lack of security. In my opinion I would indicate this issue as primary concern to the politics, because if we improved this, we could really push up the quality of life of the citizens.