how to improve transportation If you live in such a big city Beijing -as I do, with so terrible a traffic situation, you will not be surprised of involving in a heated debate of whether the government should spend more money on improving roads and highways, or should they put money on public transportation improvement However, as far as I am concerned, this is not a conflict issue, that governments should combine the efficacies of both the two means in order to ameliorate the traffic status at present Improving roads and highways, which is a fact that everyone knows, can bring about various advantages First of all, to construct more roads and highways means that more vehicles, in other words, more people, could travel to their destinations more convenient and faster People now live in the suburb of Beijing but work in the center, are good case in point, whose homes are only several kilometers from downtown, ironically have to rent a house near their work places because of it will take them hours to go home for the bad condition of the roads and the lack of highways On the other hand, for the government, as a matter of fact, a high inputoutput ratio is desirable, and the highways which are profitable are capable of prospering the economy, and indeed, raise the national revenue Is this attractive to any government? Improving public transportation such as buses, trains, subways, which are involved in people's everyday life, is also of great significance, especially for those who not have personal transportations and have to choose either buses or subways to go to work or go school, and more over, for such a big city as Beijing that has an enormous population Since it is the government's responsibility to improve the public facilities including public transportation as to make its people leading a better life, money should also be put on this aspect Taking into account all the factors mentioned above and combining with the character of the city I am now living, I perceive that the government should put more money on improving roads and highways, meanwhile, use the income of them to develop my city's public transportation as well