Albert Taperek

  My observation, which I am going to write about today, was made on holiday in Stockholm. The whole capital of Sweden made a huge impression on me but the thing that really stuck in my mind was an amazing traffic movement. Lots of bike paths, expanded metro, fewer cars and as the result no traffic jams. This made me think whether it is possible to do something similar in Poland because as we know in big cities, especially in Warsaw, people often struggle with traffic jams and finding a place to park up.   Obviously, it’s easier to implant those things in Sweden as it’s a richer country so their infrastructure is more developed but if created a well-organized plan, these changes could happen in the next years. In my opinion, this plan should consist of creating new bus lanes, bike paths, subway lines and cutting the price of tickets. I know it would cost a lot of money but wasting less time on transport and lowering the level of fumes in the air seems like a decent deal.

 Since the beginning of the present schoolyear I’ve observed that whenever I’m near the pedestrian crossing I always see someone using a mobile phone while crossing it. I’m not sure whether it’s me who just started paying attention to it or basically more and more people do it. Furthermore, it’s not only the young people who do this but also adults, even after 40. This problem clearly shows us that even though mobile devices are a technological miracle, which helps people in many types of things, they still might be dangerous when using wrong. We all are partly addicted to mobile devices but it’s way more serious addiction when someone can’t leave a phone for 20 seconds in order to safely cross the road. The effects of phone addiction are mostly associated with some mental issues but in this case, it might cause serious body injury or even death. There have been some attempts to prevent it such as creating a law according to which it would be illegal and fined but as of this mome...