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"One day a month to open a small car", environmental protection departments and environmental organizations in this initiative has received no less than 200,000 drivers often respond. This is an exciting message, which indicates that a new fashion is quietly rising. Embodied in such a fashion is that people for energy consumption and air quality concerns, but also people's quality of life and the environment for equity concerns.

This kind of driving less proud of not only become fashionable in some countries, citizenship behavior, and is translated into government action.
98 years, Earth Day, I was in Washington participated in a theme of "riding a bike to work" initiative. Some long bike ride to work was awarded the honorary tribe, known as the "bicycle hero." Presence of the United States Department of Transportation officials and Metro supervisor, who, together with civil society organizations to discuss how to implement so that a bike directly into the subway plan. With the peak period of three or more cars must contain enough of this kind of restrictive measures in order to Sheung corresponded to areas of public transport incentives. For example, government officials and other public transportation if it is the subway to work, there will be special subsidies.

Homs Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the policy is even more careful of. On the one hand, in addition to public transportation subsidies, extending in all directions of the bus and into the rail network, has a "privilege" in bus lanes and cycle paths, and bicycle facilities to connect into all kinds of iron; On the one hand, it is the limitations for the cars entering the city , such as high oil taxes and near-stringent parking spaces. As compensation for this limitation, reasonable taxi management solution to people's emergency and diversified needs, taxi drivers can also buy "yellow card" and get in the bus driving right of exclusive Road, which is no private cars owners of the right to enjoy. In this bicycle ownership is greater than the total population of the "bicycle kingdom", cycling associations are important participants in urban planning, they succeeded in winning over more bicycle paths and bicycle right of way ethnic. When I visit the Netherlands Minister of Transport, she spent a lot of time to talk about how the government will not be stolen bicycles to consider security issues.

In the Norwegian capital Oslo, walking is a kind of fashion, to go to work every day for half an hour are common, so when I went to Norway, to specifically bring soft shoes. That went so far as to walk home after work met the mayor, by the way he gave an interview. Another urban traffic supervisor told me that they had spent a lot of money to build driveway, hoping to alleviate the heavy traffic. Many years later, they started to realize, the way you build the more cars the more they recognize that the previous approach is wrong, then reduced the roads, the creation of more public transport system. Norway, the prices of the most expensive in Europe, there are still a lot of people can afford cars, so the government has increased the oil tax and the development of car congestion charge policy, thereby reducing emissions.

What impressed me most is Curitiba, Brazil, 70 years a far-sighted mayor would create the world's first enclosed bus rapid transit system, and this has driven this rapid transit system around the housing industry and commerce. Colombia, former Bogota mayor excel rather than blue, and has established the world's most advanced bus rapid transit system. Members of the public did not understand him, and now running for president become a passion of his voters. I have an interview, he repeatedly stressed that a city should be one city, rather than the car city. A city the size of public space, is the city's environmental quality and social justice, one of the rigid target, but also to improve air quality, and attract the best talent to come here to live a prerequisite for the development of high-tech industries, it is also to promote economic development sound strategy.

June 5 is World Environment Day, people with "less open one day a month car" action to respond to. Moved, I thought of these responses among the many people who will join the team bus tribe, already overburdened by the current increase in a sub-crowded public transport, but also bound to the status quo for the bus a little more worried. Importantly, more environmentally friendly behavior by citizens to promote public transport for government action to make public transport more convenient, comfortable, convenient and safer to bike more smooth in order to allow people to come out really small car, reducing energy consumption, the common achievements of Beijing, blue sky.

More and more people have realized, and convenient public transportation with a bike and a good taxi management is the only option for a sustainable city. We will not and can not reject the modern means of transport, but we do can be a more sensible mode of transport to enjoy a more healthy and sustainable modern living, this is a lifestyle, but also a kind of living wisdom.

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