Question

Which statement creates a strong cause-and-effect connection? Increased traffic on city streets leads to longer commuting times for students. School buses are not efficient methods of transportation. Many students commute more than 15 minutes each way. Commuting times are already too long and commuting distances are too far.

Answer 1

Increased traffic on city streets leads to longer commuting times for students.

Answer 2

The answer to your question would be that the statement that creates a strong cause-and-effect connection is the following one: Increased traffic on city streets leads to longer commuting times for students.

You use cause-and-effect semantic relations to talk about the way in which one thing is caused by another. In this case, the cause is increased traffic on city streets and the result/effect of that problem is that students have to commute for longer times.