Public transportation is one of the best ways for reducing CO2 emissions. Whenever I'm needing to get somewhere, first I think if I am able to take an AC Transit bus, Bart, or even carpool with someone else. It's cheap and the best way to travel without increasing your carbon footprint. In order to improve this system, maybe the government can find a way to make it accessible in even more locations locally, and easier for those who do not have money with them to pay for it.

I agree and I try to take public transport as much as possible so I don't have to ask my parents just to drive me considering I'm not yet driving myself. When I will be driving by myself I will try to drive my friends when we're going somewhere so we don't have to go separate to the location but by one car.

I agree with you, Savannah, but is public transportation truly the best way to travel? According to mother nature network, a single bus from 2006 at 50% capacity (for passengers,) produces 892 grams per kilometer (g/pk) of CO2, opposed to 0 g/pk for cyclists. This means that even though you can reduce CO2 emissions through public transportation, the only way to truly make transportation emissions sustainable would be to walk or bike. According to totalwomenscycling, for every kilometer cycled by one person, only 33 grams of CO2 are released (accounting for maintenance and operation energy). This is a level of CO2 that is sustainable to the earth, and significantly better than public transportation. Additionally, biking is good for your body, so it benefits both the environment and your health. These reasons lead me to believe that biking, rather than public transportation, is the best method of transportation.

Sources:
https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportatio n/stories/12-reasons-to-start-using-a-bicycle-for-transportation

https://totalwomenscycling.com/news/hap … s-bicycles

I use public transportation all the time as well. But of course, it's not always the most effective way of getting around. Public transportation in the Bay Area goes most places but some places it's just more convenient to use a car. I think if we added more bart/AC transit routes it would decrease the CO2 emissions even more because it would be more accessible.

I agree with you. Use as more public transportation is a good way for reducing CO2 emissions, but maybe is not the best way of getting around. For use the public transportation in the Dublin and Oakland, it only effective of going few place but most places it's better to use car. As use car will increase CO2 footprint, we can choose take an carpool or bike if it's possible. If we added more bart routes will perfectly solve most of the problems and decrease the CO2 emissions.

I also agree with you. Public transportation is a great way to reduce a community's carbon footprint. I think that our community as well as communities  across the globe should invest in more sustainable infrastructure, and this starts with creating more convenient and efficient public transportation, like the intercontinental train system in Europe.

I agree as well, having city governments invest revenue to public transportation will only be beneficial. The more people take public transportation, the less CO2 is emitted from their individual cars. As cars are on of the biggest CO2 emitters, this leads to a better environment and better public health. I do agree that public transportation may not be the most efficeint way of getting around, but if time is a factor, one could take bart, bike, or even carpool to reduce the amount of CO2 in the environment. A new train system may be out of reach, but I think even something as small as an upgrade to bart would have a great impart on the Bay Area.

I think we should bike or use buses in a city instead of driving around. It would reduce traffic and CO2 pollution

Or we could put shops and things together so you don't need to DRIVE  600 MILES FOR A DARN SAUSAGE!
If shops and houses were closer to each other then less driving will occur and that means less co2 will be createdd

Public transport is a great idea and more people should consider using the city bus, carpool with other people or riding a bike. All these decrease CO2 emissions and would be better than always using a car.

This is one of the great things about schools supplying an Orca card, we don't need to get driven around everywhere separately when we can just hop on the bus free of charge.

I use public transportation a lot and we get fee fare by being students in the city public school system. I know there is also reduced fare for kids and seniors.

I agree and I personally take bus and Bart from my school to house. I live far away so when I take Bart and bus I lower my carbon footprint by not going by car. Also on average people save around  $9,738 a year by taking public transportation. For example, If the drive is 20-miles to and from your destination, the switch to public transportation can lower your carbon footprint by 4,800 pounds per year.

Public transportation is an optimal solution for the problem of increased carbon dioxide emissions. This solution may not be convenient for many who live in rural areas or are not able to easily access public transportation, the use of a car or other automobile may be unavoidable. If we really want to decrease carbon dioxide emissions we must strive to make public transportation easily accessible for all. Society today is reluctant to change what they are used to and if that change is a difficult one it will be even harder to implement in large quantities, we must establish a way so that most if not all of society looks at public transportation as a positive change.

In an article that talks about how carpooling can save the Earth https://www.conservationmagazine.org/20 … he-world/, it also talks about the impact of public transportation like taxis. Taxis are estimated to have on average about 400,000 trips per day. ABout half of those trips are with more than one passenger. This means that by sharing your taxi, you allow more about 200,000 cars are taken off the road. 200,000 cars can produce up to 2400000 because the average gas tank can hold about 12 gallons of gas.

Public transportation is a very good idea if someone wants to start limiting the amount of Carbon dioxide that they release into the atmosphere. Another way that we can stop using more CO2 is by carpooling. If we begin to carpool more people won't have to use cars as much thus limiting the amount of carbon dioxide we emit in our atmosphere.

I totally agree with you. I think that public transportation is great way to reduce CO2 emissions. I take the bus to and from school everyday. On the weekends whenever I travel somewhere I try to take like bart or ac transit or just carpool with friends. Using public transit is a simple way to lower your carbon footprint and its's very easy to implement.

Public transportation is a great way to control and reduce the CO2 we emit. taking the bus or the train every day with lots of other people on it saves us way more energy and fit air to breathe, rather than each person driving their own individual pollutant car. Making small changes to everyday life like this is what everyone needs to start doing if we really want our atmosphere to become healthy.