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Public Transportation: From the Archives
Dig deeper into these articles on public transportation from the TreeHugger and Planet Green archives.
How to Go Green: Commuting will help you go green while you get to work, on public transportation or otherwise.
Get some tips for hopping on the bus and starting to ride public transportation.
Ready to take the next step? Here's how to throw away your keys and live car-free.
Learn to ride the internet to work and telecommute from home.
Treehugger recently asked readers to chime in on whether and how they have reduced their dependence on cars. Some of the strategies are pretty creative while others are really informed critiques on plans devoted to improve travel which are doing anything but.
Taxis are a smaller form of public transportation, and even they are getting in on the hybrid act.
Alternative fuel buses are popping up all over the world, including biodiesel buses in Toronto, diesel hybrid buses in London, hydrogen buses at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Games in Berlin, and Volvo plans to begin producing hybrid trucks and buses.
Train travel is better than flying, well, from an emissions standpoint it is and it’s a lot more peaceful. Japan has even begun converting its diesel-electric trains to be powered by hydrogen fuel cells. That’s the spirit.
Public Transportation Maps: Google is now offering public transportation maps for cities, beginning with Portland, OR and with more cities to follow.
Ferries: San Francisco may soon have a new attraction – 600-passenger hybrid-electric Solar Sailors to ferry people back and forth to Alcatraz. These ships come complete with solar wings, which cut fuel needs in half. The other plan is to use these aquatankers ship water to drought-plagued areas of Australia. While Staten Island ferries are being retrofitted to reduce particulate and Nox emissions.
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