In my opinion, highways should be given preferential financing.

Firstly, highways are the foundation of on-land transportation.

When we are on our way to workplace in the morning, we could see the start of a new busy day. A large amount of cars are running their way one after one on advanced highways. They drive so rapidly and orderly that it just like a flow of water. Perhaps no one takes time to think about what will happen if there are no highways. But we can imagine such a picture immediately—the on-land transportation would be in a server mess. So it is easy to understand that the on-land transportation is based on highways.  

Secondly, transportation system, highways in particular, lies as the basis of the social development in various aspects.

In the museum, an exhibition in which you are interested in is on show, and you decided to go there so as to enjoy it; you choose a helpful course in a training center as your summer course, so you have to drive to study; the farmers have just harvest ripe bananas and the fruit needs to be carried to markets. All of these examples are selected from our daily life. They show that transportation is necessary in almost all our activities in the area of culture, education and business. As these fields are crucial to the development of the society, conclusion can be made safely that transportation is thus necessary for social development. It clearly defines the basic position of transportation in the social development. And the big role it plays in our lives would not be replaced by modern communication approaches such as internet and telecommunication. Indeed, these approaches are popular and keep growing, but a considerable part of our practices still relies on transportation system. This claim is quite evident for there are numerous examples like the above three ones existing in our everyday life. And in the transportation system, highway system is more fundamental than others. The first point I made can help explain it— highways serve as the foundation of on-land transportation which makes up the major part of the overall transportation system, so we say that transportation system, especially highways lies as the base of the social development.

Thirdly, today's major traffic problem is closely linked with the unfavorable conditions of highways, so improvements in highways meet the demand of resolving the problem comparing with public transportation.

The booming of economy and technology has led to a tremendous increase of private cars. This is an inevitable tendency because it is an inevitable outcome of social progress. It indicates that there would be more and more cars day by day. However, serving as the foundation of cars, the development of highways is slower than that of private cars in some degree. Unscientific layout and supervision, as well as historical circumstances make up the major part of unfavorable conditions of highways. These elements combine together and hinder the improvement of highway system. As a result, highways lack enough capacity to carry such a large amount of cars. Problems arise immediately due to this situation with the mark of severe traffic jam. As we can’t change the tide of the times, we should keep our focus on highways to solve this urgent traffic problem. Such measures as optimizing arrangements before construction, strengthening regulation and upgrading road facilities are all viable ways with significant efficiency and effectiveness. Nevertheless, it is not able for us to achieve all these from public transportation.

Fourthly, public transportation is indeed of significance for a part of the population.

It is true that purchasing private cars represents the tendency of the times, but we have to mind the fact that not everyone affords a car or prefer a car. So there is always a group of persons who don’t own cars. This group mainly consists of people who are not rich enough to buy cars and who are not fond of private cars. For this group, few traffic approaches can be adopted in terms of daily transportation. And in most cases, public transportation is an optimal choice in despite of its shortcomings. A majority of this group, therefore, choose to take public transportation. Concerning the disadvantages of public transportation, some of them can be removed through promotion in equipments whereas others can not. For instance, we can equip buses with advanced facilities to create a more comfortable environment; however, we can’t change the crowded condition in buses in busy time thoroughly. This is because this certain part of disadvantages is decided by its nature of public. Nevertheless, it is still meaningful to introduce reasonable improvements to public transportation, since what we developed in possible areas is of significance for the welfares of many people.

 Fifthly, the improvement of public transportation doesn’t meet the demand of solving the major traffic problem.

First of all, we can suppose that promotions of public transportation can settle our urgent traffic problem. Obviously, this supposition is proposed because we think that the developments of public transportation can reduce or at least keep the number of cars running on highways. Actually, we can not achieve this effect by simply improving public transportation. As I mentioned above, we can’t change the trend of purchasing private cars, nor can public transportation. While public transportation belongs to public services, private cars represent customized services. And people prefer customized services without doubt. That is to say, once a person gains enough money to enjoy personal services, he would do it without hesitation. However, no matter what kinds of advancements are made to public transportation, its nature will never be changed. Therefore improvements of public transportation can not impact people’s decisions of having private cars which means it wouldn’t have a bearing on the tendency of buying cars. Meanwhile, it can not attract those car-owners to take public transportation instead of their own cars. As a result, it would not reduce the amount of cars on roads. All these points have demonstrated that the basis of our supposition is not appropriate. Therefore, our supposition is a mistake, in other words, the advancement of public transportation doesn’t meet the demand of resolving the major traffic problem.  

Last but not the least, because the customer group of public transportation is relatively fixed, which means there is a tiny potential market in public transportation, the investments in it may not bring up the same amount of profits. So if a comparison is made between highways and public transportation, the investments in highways turn out to be more fruitful. Besides the settlement of our major traffic problem which we can gain from the development of highways, public transportation, as part of the on-land transportation system, can also benefit from it.