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People of America love sports of all kinds. Many people play sports in their free time, and than they go to games or watch them on TV. One of the most popular sports is football. Millions of people watch football each weekend, during the autumn and winter. Baseball is also very popular. They play football in the spring and summer, while in the winter they play basketball. Basketball started in America in XIX century. People wanted to play sports in winter, but it was too cold outside. Basketball was the game they could play inside in the gyms. Each school in the USA has its own team of young athletes. The pupils and their families and friends come to watch school games. Thousands of children play basketball at weekends. School games can be as much fun as the big games.
London is a huge metropolitan area that is why public transport is vitally important for the city dwellers as well as tourists, for whom it might be quite confusing to get about London. Unlike Russian public transport, British transport system is reliable and quite cheap. However, due to the increase of car ownership, London traffic has become 3 times as heavy as it used to be and the length of the traffic jams increased dramatically. As a result, the problem of fatal car accidents appeared.
Apart from taxies, there are 2 main methods of transport in London: the Underground and the buses. Buses are best for sightseeing, especially double-decker buses. However, they are rather slow, especially during the rush hour. On the traditional double-decker there were no doors and passengers leaped up and off the bus and conductor was moving about and collecting fares from the passengers. However, nowadays fares are given directly to the driver ort o the machine. Moreover, London transport has recently introduced single-decker buses which are called "Red Arrows".