- Introduce Urban Transportation as a whole, brief history.
- Introduce the traffic congestion problem in Brookline.
- Overpopulation: Brookline's population having be growing exponentially for the past 5 years, and it does not look like it will stop. 58,732 growing 4% rate. Overpopulation causes the roads to get clogged up during rush hours(morning, evening).
- Road Safety: Traffic congestion raises safety concern for pedestrians. Over the past 6 months there have been 5 road-related death(all during rush hour morning or evening)
- Co2 emission: United States currently rank number one in the world for Co2 emissions. Co2 is the basic chemical that causes greenhouse effect and global warming. Health Department of Brookline director Alan Balsam noted that there have been a significant increase in Co2 in Brookline
- Department of Transportation Todd Kirane noted that due to the increase influx in car on Brookline road, he is unable to set a "town rule" for speed limit since cars from other towns are crossing and are not subjected to "town rules".
Part 2 Argument:
- I am using single difference becfause if I can show that the traffic situation in France is the same as the traffic situation in Brookline, except the bicycle sharing community in France, then the only solution will be creating a bicycle sharing community in Brookline.
Building off of my argument above, I propose to implement a bicycle sharing community in Brookline.
- there will be multiple stations (Coolidge Corner, Cleveland Circle, Brookline Village) where bikers can rent using the meter system.
- a partnership with MBTA system
- Reduce Pollution, traffic congestion, safety concerns, and connect to MBTA
