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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Transportation in My Sustainable City
In my sustainable city, I would have lots of gas efficient ways of transportation. For example, I want to have a lot of city buses or a train that can take lots of people around at once. The buses would be CO2 efficient, and would come often, to discourage people from taking cars. Or I would try to have something like taxis in New York. It would create a lot of jobs, and if the taxis always kept moving and there were a lot of them, people wouldn't use their cars as often. Another thing is that the cars could be mass produced to be hybrid or electric, and have massive charging stations all around town. This would cut down on the amount of CO2 that people emit into the air through transportation, the biggest category of CO2 emissions on average.
I believe these are all good ideas. When I calculated my footprint, I was below average for people in my state but above the average human. One thing that was above people in my state was transportation. I drive very far to school every day, and although I have a carpool, it emitted a lot of CO2. It is not that simple to just have these changes happen, nevertheless. Because they are running all day, buses and taxis do emit a lot of CO2. If these buses and taxis were CO2 efficient or electric, it might take time to charge. According to https://pod-point.com/guides/driver/how … ctric-car, it takes just under 8 hours to fully charge, meaning they would have to charge at night. However, they are capable of over 100 miles without dying, so if we could get them electric, it would emit a lot less CO2.
I do believe these are all good ideas, but change cannot just come that quick and easy. Buses would be nice but, the problem is, is that many people who don't like public transportation would resort back to cars as a more personal, comfortable way to get around. Also we can cut down on more CO2 emissions by having electric taxis or electric buses. The problem is also money. Not everybody has the money for electric vehicles, and not every local government wants to spend the money for electric vehicles. It's sad but it's the truth. There are many ways to lower CO2 levels for transportation, but there are many risks. In my opinion this is a "high risk, high reward" situation, and people just need to be ready to take that risk.