Traffic

There are several ways of travelling. People can travel by bicycle, motorcycle, car, taxi, bus, tram, trolleybus, underground, train, plane, ship, boat, hydroplane and so on.

There are many ways of getting about town. In most big cities people have a wide choice of tram, bus, trolley-bus and underground routes in addition to a taxi service. Trams, trolley-buses and buses stop to pick up passengers at special stops. During the morning rush hours, with so many people hurrying to work, the vehicles are usually overcrowded. During the evening rush hours, with everyone hurrying home, they are packed full, too.

You can buy railway tickets at newsagent’s, ticket offices, in shops, from ticket machines and in some towns from the drivers, which is always more expensive. Then you have to validate your ticket either punching it or stamping it. But if you have a monthly ticket, you don’t have to worry about buying a ticket because monthly and weekly tickets are valid for several journeys within a particular period of time. They are also cheaper than separate tickets. You can also buy half-yearly and yearly tickets.

I used to go to work by bus, underground and tram but nowadays we go to work by car with my husband and our daughter. It’s more comfortable and quicker than the public transport.

I don’t like public vehicles because they are slow and crowded, and the service is not frequent enough.

The fastest type is the underground because it isn’t influenced by weather or traffic conditions. In Hungary you can find it only in the capital.

People travel by taxi when they are in a hurry, when they have much to carry or when they are in unknown places. You go by taxi if there is no public transport or it isn’t operating because it’s too late.

The London underground (the Tube) is one of the largest in the world. It has 10 lines and nearly 300 stations. Underground called subway in New York and metro in Paris and many other cities.

Public transport can be made more environmentally friendly by replacing buses with trams and trolleybuses or running them on natural gas.

Parking is getting more and more difficult nowadays because the number of cars has increased dramatically.

In Hungary the point-to-point transport is very critical. Buses and trains are crowded, slow, expensive and often late.