IELTS Speaking Part 3 Topic: Transportation with Band 9 Sample

QUESTIONS FOR PART 3 – TOPIC: TRANSPORTATION

How to encourage more people to take public transportation?

Encouraging the public to make use of the public transit is quite a tough task as the facilities and infrastructures are not developed So with a view to achieving that, there should be an increase in the number of public means of transport like buses, trains, and subways with better service quality so that the general population feels worth it to leave their motorbike or car at home and make daily commutes by public transport. In addition, government should run more awareness raising campaigns to educate people about the importance of conserving the environment via small actions such as taking public transport. Posters can be stuck on electrical poles on the streets, or banners should be hung outside buildings, for example.

Causes and contributing factors of traffic congestion:

Traffic congestion is caused by different factors; bad weather, poor signal timing, car accidents, inadequate roadway capacity, insufficient number of roads. Substandard road conditions, and increased number of cars; roads and transport services suffer when they are overused. Urban sprawl and unplanned urban growth contribute to the traffic congestion of large cities.

What measures should the government take to solve transportation problems in traveling?

The government can do a lot to solve traffic problems. For example, better educations of the citizens to follow traffic rules, more provision of public transportation facilities, such as buses and underground railways, as well as broadening the roads or building skyways, can all contribute to the alleviation of traffic problems.

Other suggestions to reduce traffic:

To apply automated traffic management systems, to improve public transport systems, to encourage people to use more public transport, to provide carpooling facilities, to establish car sharing schemes, to ease traffic jams through radio reports, to impose vehicle emission laws: a regulatory system planned to limit the number of cars on the roads could be introduced, to ban private cars front entering certain areas of the city , to increase the number of roads, to provide a safe network of walking and cycling routes.

What types public transport can be found in your country?

Obviously, there’s quite a mixed variety of public transport in my country. When we travel on the roads, it’s easy to find mass of buses, taxis, or even trains. If someone wants to have an outbound trip, plane is crucial. However, the most commonly-used would potentially be buses, since they are so cheap and reliable.

Why types of public transport do you use most?

As far as I’m concerned, I take buses more often than any other means of transport. That might be due to the fact that I am liable to carsickness buses aren’t so stuffy. Moreover, bus wouldn’t set me back because with only 200,000 dong for a monthly commutation ticket. I could commute to work every day without any anxiety.

Are there any public transport problems in your country?

With an increase of private cars in my country, during the rush hour there are always jam-packed kind people often go bananas due to this, the road quality, furthermore, is too run-down to meets the needs of the overwhelming vehicular traffics. This might leads to the increase in drastic crack-ups recently.

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