The debate over the public transportation cost centered around two significant opinions: free of cost and with cost. A minority people argue that public transport should be free of cost, whereas a majority believes that the public transportation should includes tickets. This essay will discuss both perspectives and offer my own opinion on the matter.
On one hand, a minority people think that public transportation should be free of cost. Public transportation is one of the significant part of people’s lives who do not own any motor vehicles. A large number of people depends on public transportation as a mean of moving from one place to another. As a result, the low income group had to spent a significant protion of money on transportation every month. This makes the low income group lives more miserable. For instance, as the low income group saves money on transportation, they can spent those money on somewhere important; which will make their lives more easier.
On the other hand, the majority people believes that public transportation should come with a cost. The government spends a huge number of money on transportation every year. In order to run the public transportation, there are lots of expenses such as salary of the drivers, daily maintanace, and oil refil. As a result, it is hard for the government to run the public transportation without charging money to the public for using the service.
In my opinion, while running the public transport is harder without charging money for the service, free of cost will make the lives easier to a significant number of people. The reason is that, every year the government takes a huge number of tax from the public. Moreover, some countries even take 40-50% of yearly income as tax. That is why, government should invest a moderate proportion of money on public transportation that they get from tax every year. Because its the tax paying public who are mostly using the public transport every day.
In conclusion, even though majority of people wants the public transport to charge money, which is logical; but the government should spent the tax money and make the public transportation free, in order to make a significant number of people’s lives easier.