I think that if a city could encourage people to use eco-friendly public transport by giving them tax breaks based on how often they chose to use it over their own personal cars. Also encourage more carpooling by making more exclusive and cracking down on people who abuse the carpool lane.

Although I use public transportation often, laws that could grant tax returns to citizens who use public transportation might cause a downfall in the use of public transportation. Despite public transportation's effectiveness in depleting carbon dioxide levels, the idea of enforcing public transportation could form a severe rise in public transportation like the BART and bus systems. In California, the BART endures innumerable challenges in operation, like last Saturday where all BART trains near Bay Fair Station malfunctioned, throughout the decades as the bay area did not improve the BART system's functionality since the 1970's, only expanded the BART system. The BART system receives extreme overcrowding during the days and nights, thus any huge rise in BART attendance may force BART stations to not accomodate all passengers and potentially remove passengers from excessive overcrowding. Public transportation remains vulnerable to any and all attacks perpetrated as no security checkings or examination of visible belongings, only allowing eye witnesses and their proximit ies to the public transportation's phones for reporting any suspicious activity. Furthermore, BART has recently experienced multiple robberies by criminals as they mugged people within the BART stations at night. Also, people who utilize public transportation either cannot afford personal vehicles or can only enter the destination through public transportation, which creates a disadvantage to people who do not require public transportation for migration to their destination. In my opinion, improvements on current public transportation in operation and efficancy, more frequent public transportation during busy hours, and monitoring passengers must transpire for more proactive use of public transportation.

I feel like it would be easier to use public transportation if there were better routes that reached in to the suburbs more. As it is, the public transportation will get you around much of the major cities, but there is a long walk at the end of it. I also feel as if public transportation were a little bit safer people would use it more.
-LeAnne Kolb

I completely agree that public transportation would be a great way of changing the environment but I feel it would be hard to change the way people get around seeing as 1.2 billion people in the world own a car. You might think that another solution if civilians are so inclined to owning personal cars then they could go electric,but there are only 2 million electric cars driven around the world and that's out of 1.2 billion cars that use fossil fuels which are devastating to the atmosphere. This would be great if countries could afford electric cars because as of right now the cheapest electric car the Chevrolet Spark EV costs $27,495 which is nearly 2 times the cost of one of the cheapest gasoline fueled cars the Nissan Versa S Sedan which costs $12,780. So as of right now while still trying to find a more cost effective way to travel fast while saving the environment we should just walk or ride bikes.

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