Decrease per capita gasoline consumption. Encourage people to car pool, improve public transportation, and make people s lives more convenient without cars. Benefits are decreased gasoline consumption and related costs to the community, reduced air pollution, and conservation of fossil fuels. Increase the percentage of students using public transportation. Add more routes and weekend transportation and encourage students to take the bus to school every day instead of using their cars.
Benefits are the enhancement of energy efficiency, lessen traffic and air pollution in the city.
Increase the percentage of people carpooling. Encourage students to carpool to school with their classmates or neighbors. Benefits include conserving gasoline and fossil fuels, reducing air pollution, enhancing the feeling of community, and better communication between the people of the whole area. Expand the per capita use of bikes throughout the community and region. Add more bicycle lanes along the road system, parks, rail corridors and greenways.