Travelling by Bus or Train, Which One Do You Like Most?

As the students of university, we come from different part of this country. When we want to go home, we take a public transportation to carry us to our destination. According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, public transportation is the system of buses, trains, etc provided for people to travel from one place to another. Actually, different person has different idea of what kind of public transportation that he/she wants to choose. However, the most favorite public transportations for the students of University are bus and train. Now, we will look at the advantages and disadvantages by making a comparison-contrast essay. For the similarities, both of bus and train are land transportations, they need some money and they also have a certain place to stop, while their contrasts are the appearance and the time that we should spend to reach our destination place.

Firstly, let us see the similarities. The similarities are very general that almost all people know them. Starting from the type of those public transportations, both of them are land public transportations. Nevertheless, they have special path. The path for the bus is called road, while the path for the train is called railway. The next similarity is about the money. When we are travelling by bus or train, we should spend amount of money. The money that we are spent depends on the distance of our destination place. And the last is both of them have a certain place to stop. Both of bus and train should be stopped for a while in a place named station. The bus should be stopped in the bus station and in the place named halte, while the train should be stopped in the railway station.

Actually, everything in this world beside has many similarities also has many differences. Now, in my explanation below, I try to distinguish the bus and the train from some aspects, their appearance and the time that we should spend to reach our destination place. Let us have a look.

The most dominant thing that differ the bus and the train is that their appearance. The bus is shorter compare with the train. The bus itself has two types, the small bus and the big bus. The small bus could only carry at least 30 passengers and the big bus could carry 60 passengers. All the seats of the bus face to front and the driver is in the front of them. Different from the bus, the train is longer in size and it consists of many coaches. Each coach has many seats and the seats are face to face. The driver of the train are called masinis, he has a special coach in the front. Thus, the train could carry more passengers than the bus do.

The second difference is the time that we should spend to the destination place. In any cases, the bus always needs more time to reach the destination places that we want to go because the route of the bus is longer and sometimes should pass the roads that are always crowded by the people. Moreover, traffic lights and traffics jams could be the other reason why the bus is slower than the train. Contrast with the bus, the train has shorter route because the train has a shortcut way. Besides, the railway where the train passes there is no traffic light and traffic jam at all.

In brief, both of bus and train have their own advantages and disadvantages. Even though they have similarities such as same in type, the money that we should spend and the certain place where they could stop and some differences such as their appearance, and the time that we should spend to reach our destination place it still depends on the person because each person has different opinion and feeling. Therefore, we could decide which public transportation we will use when we are traveling. Just enjoy your traveling the more comfortable one and feel the senses.

written by Rahayu Sekarini