Band 5+: Many cities are introducing 'car-free days' on weekends, banning private vehicles from central areas to promote walking and cycling. Do the advantages of this policy outweigh the disadvantages?

Nowadays, a lot of cities are introducing days without cars on central areas, requaring people not to use their vehicles to promote healthy lifestyle. The main benefits of this measures are that people can allow themselves to walk around in city with a clear air and sky, make the environment a quick better. However, there is a drawback; it is much harder to move in city without the flexibility that car can give us.

Firstly, we all recognise how bad and dark the current environment could be nowadays, and people had a significant influence on this situation. The smoke from cars, factories, landfills, it all can lead to the ecological downturn. Which is why the only way to stop an erosian to become more gentle to the environment, so the protection is pretty actual and important. Obviously, every little environ-friendly move make out planet healthy. For example, in the last 10 years the population of rare fish started dying not so intensively like before, thanks to kind individual who still think about future of our world. It means that solution that many cities are introducing could inevitably save the world.

One of the downsides of the ‘car-free days’ is the movement inside the city. Eather these measures introducing only on weekends, it still can brings a lot of problems on a traffic. This means that crowd of people who planned something on their weekend need to walk there, because buses and cabs also is not available. Furhermore, if you have an urgent necessity to drive up to somewhere, it will definitely worth much more time and hassle than it could will with a vehicle. Such a situation can be really crucial for a workpeople with a flexible schedule, who tend to attend their offices and perform their duties even on the weekends. For example, if somebody in the central areas with restrictions apparently might feel unwell and need help immidiately, the emergency may not be there in time due to all this car’s measures, which is might become fatal for the victim.

In conclusion, although the governments’ initiative regardings ‘car-free days’ seems useful for the environment and ecosystem, it still brings a lot of complications for people in these areas.