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Good morning to everyone. I'm Salma, and today I will be concluding today's debate by summarizing everything that's been said, both by my team and by the other team.

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But before I do that, I would like to thank all of you for listening to us, and I would also like to thank both my team for defending our position, and also the opposite team for refuting our arguments.

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First of all, my teammate Ainoa started by explaining the topic and introducing our three solid main arguments.

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For this, she used a photo and showed the effects that private car use can have in cities.

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Our three main arguments were the harmful effects private car use has, the accessibility that they provide us and finally the safety.

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In the first rebuttal, the opposing team introduced the debate by showing a picture of a Tokyo subway and explaining how crowded it was.

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Then they proceeded to introduce their three main arguments that consisted in the travelling distance, the thieves that could appear in public transport,

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the littering and noise that pedestrian areas could provoke, and finally the pandemic and the effects that it had in public transport and on people.

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In the first rebuttal, he explained how people could be affected by the pedestrianization and how their main roads would be affected,

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but my partner later refuted this by explaining how the public transport usually covers most of the city's area,

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Putting as an example the metro of Madrid which covers 294 km, data found in its webpage.

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After this, the other team explained how tourists could litter pedestrian areas and therefore they could produce more pollution.

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But later my teammates refuted this by explaining that this could also happen anywhere else.

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and later they explained how only a third part of Spain's population uses public transport,

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although we believed that investing in public transport would raise the number of people who use it.

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They finally stated people should be able to decide whether they would want to use the car or the public transport,

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and my partner later said that we couldn't agree more,

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but nobody would be forced to use it, we are only defending that it would be an efficient alternative.

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After this, my partner further explained our arguments by showing evidence such as a graph

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that showed how in countries where public transport is used more than private car use,

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there are less accidents, which can prove that public transport means less accidents

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and therefore more safety to us citizens.

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And with this being said, I would like to thank all of you again, and with this we conclude the debate.