hard · GRE Verbal

A newspaper editorial frames a transit debate as a choice between building an expensive new subway line and doing nothing to relieve downtown congestion, without mentioning that several cities have reduced congestion through lower-cost bus-priority lanes. What is the primary purpose of this passage?

1. To prove that building a subway line would fail to relieve congestion
2. To report the editorial's framing without noting that it omits a third option
3. To challenge a debate that omits a third, lower-cost option
4. To narrate the history of subway construction in the city
5. To compare the cost of the subway line with the cost of the bus-priority lanes in exact figures

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