Toefl TWE exercise, problem 106

There
are many kinds of transportations to commute from my home to place to
40 miles away. In them, what I have are bicycle, train, and car. They
have some positive points as well as negative ones.

First,
a bicycle is so cheap for my financial state and helpful for my
health. A bicycle can easily be bought in a bicycle store of my town.
In my town, there are 10 or more stores to sell it. Because of
competetion between the stores, I can find the cheapest bicycle
whenever I want. Moreover, the city hall is supporting the campaign
to ride a bicycle and to lend it. Additionally, I would become
healthier with riding a bicycle. According to a research, riders who
use bicycle for 2 hours a day have stronger heart than the others.
These are positive points using a bicycle. On the other hand, there
are negative points of using a bicycle. Riding a bicycle is
definitely time consuming. If I go for 40 miles with a bicycle, it
should take 2 hours or more. If I do not have time enough to enjoy
riding, I could not choose it as a transportation. In addition, power
consumption is one of considerable negative points. After riding it
for 2 hours, not only I but any person should experience lack of
stamina. In the case that I need to use my stamina for other tasks, I
also would not make a choice to use it to travel there.

Secondly,
I can use also public train. In the case of boarding train, the most
important point is comfortability. When I use train, it mostly always
has seats enough for almost all passengers to sit down. Also I can
sit down on a seat. Its comfortability could not be compared to any
other transportations. In addition to comfortability, train prevents
time consuming. One of the reasons for people to board train is that
the train shall depart and arrive on the time. Since it is possible
to know arriving time, people could keep their schedules. Nonetheless
of the positive points of using trains, some people point out their
negative points, fixed departure time and crowded room. We cannot let
a train begin to run for our personal reasons. If I am in a
time-critical situation, I do not prefer train. Another negative
point is that train’s passenger room is mostly always full of
passengers. This is the point that I do not like because it lets me
reserve the train. These points should be fixed or progresed in near
future.

As
the last choice, I can take my own car. A car is one of the best
solutions to go somewhere I need to go. It provides silence and
freedom. When I close the windows of my car, any noisy sound could
not enter the car. Therefore, I can enjoy my trip with my favorite
musics and sounds. Also I can take route to the goal as I want. If
the route has heavy traffic, it might be changed. So I would like to
ride my car. Even though there are many positive points of using a
car, nonetheless, it has serious problems. High cost to buy a car and
an origin of air polution. In order to get a car, it should be paid
for about 10000 dollars. This is not so cheap for anyone to buy it using.
Nowadays, to stimulate buying cars, motor companies propose many
financial plans, but they might not be indeed solutions. Natural
environment is also a considerable factor.

In
sum, I take bicycle. This is because I want to make myself healthier
and to contribute solve the environment problems. I truly believe
that bicycle is the solution to help the travel.