Here's your chance not just to be the mayor, but the original city planner as well! Imagine a medium sized city that would be developed with modern, low carbon transportation in mind, and other strategies to reduce the average citizens' carbon footprints.
What would that city look like? Would that make you more likely to want to live there?
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Sustainable transportation and walkable cities
A big factor that is contributing to the growing global carbon emissions is transportation, or more specifically transportation including vehicles. Vehicles, specifically cars, are the #1 transportation method in the United States, with over 76% of Americans reporting cars as their way of commuting from home to work on the daily.
This is a growing problem because majority of cars, like stated above, utilize fossil fuels and generate a lot of carbon emissions. One solution to decreasing the high rate of car usage is to make more walkable cities. In America, there seems to be a problem with prioritizing automobiles while city planning. The consequences of this is seeing little to no sidewalks, not having crossable streets, limited public transportation, etc. I believe that if we make a change with our city infrastructure, and prioritize pedestrians, more people will start walking or biking instead of using cars.
Walkable cities can help decrease car usage, but only in said cities. The United States land wise mainly consists of rural areas, where walking to work could take hours. Automobiles are normally prioritized in the US due to cars being the best current solution we have to transporting citizens, as opposed to European countries which have the ability to build large public transit due to a smaller size.