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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Ideal Policies: "Greener Roads"
What are some policies that we can petition for and implement in order to make our cities more ideal yet sustainable? Recently I visited an article that introduced different ideas that help cut down carbon emissions that potentially could be introduced to towns and cities such as adding carbon taxes and encouraging electric vehicles and transportation. However, a specific quote from the sub-title "Make it easier to live without cars" really caught my eye: "But we drive because our streets have been designed for our vehicles, not us." I find that relatively true when we look at cities without things like sidewalks or bike lanes. If we designed our roads to be more accessible for walking and biking, would that make an ideal change to both cut down our cities' carbon footprint as well as bringing a healthier lifestyle by walking/biking?