Multiple choice

The city administration has proposed an entry charge of fifty rupees per day on cars entering the city, claiming that the charge will help improve the city’s traffic problem. The administration reasons that, since the charge exceeds the cost of shuttle bus fare from many nearby places, many residents will stop using their cars and take the bus instead. Which of the following statements, if true, provides the best evidence that the reasoning presented by the administration is flawed?

  1. Projected increase in the price of petrol and diesel will increase the cost of taking a car into the city.

  2. The parking fees already make it considerably more expensive for most people to take a car into the city than to take a bus.

  3. Most of the residents currently taking the bus do not own cars.

  4. Many residents opposing the proposal have indicated that they would rather bear the traffic problems than pay the fifty rupees charge per day.

  5. On an average workday, cars owned and operated by the residents of the city account for no more than twenty percent of the city’s traffic.
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Explanation

The question states that the city administration plans to solve the traffic problems by imposing a charge on the cars entering the city to make it expensive to bring the cars into the city. But if what option (2) states is correct the charge being imposed will not have the desired effect as the parking fees are already high making bringing cars into the city an expensive affair already. Hence (2)

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