Using public transportation can greatly help reduce your carbon footprint and thus improve the quality of air around you. You can help reduce carbon emissions, promote cleaner air, reduce greenhouse gases, and help conserve our land, just by taking a bus, the commuter rail, or your community subway system.

Think about it: instead of 50 vehicles on the road, you can have 1 bus to hold those 50 people. Now think of how many cars will be taken off the road if thousands or millions of people do  not use their cars and use public transportation instead. If a lot of people make the small decision to use public transportation, then a big change will result. Each and every person’s small decision counts towards the big picture.

The next step is to learn about public transporation options in your community or at the places you travel. PublicTransportation.org has a map of the United States. All you need to do is click on a state, then on a city to learn about the public transportation in your area. Check this out before your daily errands or your big vacation! If you take a chance to look at it beforehand, the system, as new as it may be to you, will be easy to manouver.

For those who are well experienced with public transportation in your community, make sure you encourage your friends or ask them to join  you on an errand so that they, too, can see the difference they can make!

Travel green. Use public transportation.

Tags: carbon footprint, cars, public transportation