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IELTS Academic Task 1: Pie Chart — Transport & cities
Original practice prompt written in exam style — not a real exam question, and not a prediction.
The charts below show how residents of a city travelled to work in 1990 and in 2020. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The data is as follows (share of all commuting journeys; each year totals 100%). In 1990, 55% travelled by car, 25% by bus, 12% walked and 8% cycled; the city had no metro system. By 2020, the car share had fallen to 48% and the bus share to 18%, while cycling had risen to 15% and the new metro carried 9% of commuters. Walking fell slightly, to 10%. Although the car remained the most common way to travel to work in both years, every other mode changed noticeably over the three decades.
Examiner focus: Track each mode across both pies: the car's slow decline, the collapse of the bus, and the arrival of the metro.
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