Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 Closing the town's swimming pool was indefensible, argues coach Dana Petrov: two generations learned to swim there, and the nearest pool is now twenty miles away. Text 2 Petrov is right about the distance, and it is a real loss. But the pool cost the council more each year than the library, the museum, and the parks combined, and its roof needed replacing. The money now pays for free swimming lessons at the school pool for every child in the town — more children learning to swim than the old pool ever taught.