Nowadays, with the expansion of cities, people have to spend more and more time cycling to work. One possible solution to this problem is constructing apartment buildings near the city center instead of parks and gardens.

Advocates deem that people need to save unnecessary time they spend on their way to work in this fast-paced society. Workers would save a lot of time if there were apartment buildings near downtown. And this can increase their efficiency and make the best use of their time. Instead of traveling very far to commute, they can even walk to their offices. It has largely solved many people who have difficulty traveling to and from work due to the heavy traffic.

However, there may be better ways of tackling this problem. After all, thousands of people moved into the numerous apartment buildings there. And this would contribute to the environmental pollution and make cities overcrowded than before.

Therefore, one better measure to reduce the commuting time is to make traffic more efficient. For example, city planneand could reform the roadway distribution and the government could invest in repairing and broadening the road. Besides, companies could take different working hour measure to ensure that workers travel to work without getting stuck in traffic.

In fact, taking advantage of advanced telecommunications networks can also help people shorten traveling time. It will enable people to work from home. This not only avoids the trouble of travel but also reduces urban pollution. Of course,it may also increase their motivation to work hard and make communication and cooperation more efficient.

In my opinion, focusing on building apartment buildings is too narrow an approach and would not have the desired results. The traffic should be improved by reducing the volume of traffic and improving public transport. It is better to make use of developed high technology. In this way,it can both solve the trouble caused by travel and achieve the purpose of reducing the commuting time.