Nowadays, people have many choices of commuting to work including public transport. However, it’s not always the best solution at all. Let’s consider its pros and cons.

It’s the fact that public transport has many benefits. Firstly, using bus, train,… save you an amount of money. Imagine you drive a private car or motorbike, you must pay for not only the cost of petrol but also the regular maintenance fee. Furthermore, the price of buying one car or motorbike is expensive itself. Bus, tram,… is for everyone, even the lowest-income people. Another advantage I want to mention is that using public vehicle is a method to reduce air pollution and traffic jams. Especially in the city, where the number of vehicles increasing makes the road crowded, the public transport system is developed to deal with traffic jam and reduce the pollutant released by petrol-run vehicles.

On the other hand, there are some disadvantages with public transportation. The problem that confuse people most is that it wastes time. Usually, people need to wait for some minutes to catch a bus a train, so they need to be punctually in order not to miss is. In some crowded cities, buses meet difficulties moving among so many vehicle, so people have to wait for quite a long time before the buses come, which annoy them and cause them to be late for schools or work. Besides, as I mentioned above, the fares are cheap so many people want to use it, sometimes it is crowded that it is impossible to breath and convenient for the pickpocket criminals to commit crime.

In conclusion, there are both positive and negative aspects of the using public transportation. Personally, I still believe that public transport is advantageous when the government build a modern public transport system to avoid the drawbacks.