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Sustainability Strategic Plan for the City of University City, Missouri <br />September 12, 2011/ REVISED JANUARY 8, 2012 <br />Page 17 <br /> <br />Weekly Commute and Daily Commute, Mode of Transportation, Changes EEs would consider <br />One person in a carpool instead of a car can save the environment 9.1 pounds of harmful emissions per year. The average <br />commuter can save about $1500 per year by sharing the ride instead of driving alone to work. A single lane of highway can <br />accommodate 2,250 people per hour in cars, but a bus can accommodate 9000 people per hour. Two MetroLink tracks <br />have the same capacity of 16 lanes of highway. At rush hour a bus removes 40 cars from the highway, an a full MetroLink <br />train removes a 125 cars. In 2003, the Texas Transportation Institute annual mobile study found that St. Louis-area motorists <br />spent a combined 40 million hours in traffic, wasted 26 million gallons of fuel and doled out $675 million because of traffic <br />congestion. <br />Operation of a gas-powered lawn mower for one hour is equal to driving a new car between 200 and 300 miles in terms of <br />air pollution. If every household post-pones their gas-powered lawn gardening on RED Air Quality Index days, we would <br />prevent 25 tons of toxic air pollutants from entering the atmosphere each day. <br />Metrics: <br />• Reduce direct (Scope 1 and 3) usage CO2 emissions use by <br />10% by 2015 and a total 20% from 2005 levels by 2020 <br />• Reduce fossil fuel consumption by City Fleet and Equipment <br />by 10% by 2015 <br />• Reduce employee VMT by 20% by 2015 <br />• Increase employee use of alternative modes of <br />transportation by 20% by 2015 <br />• Reduce overall community VMT by 10% by 2015 <br />Cross reference to Transportation and Mobility and Parks, Land Use <br />and Open Space <br />Scope 2 Emissions to be discussed in Green Building and Energy <br />Potential Green House Gas Reduction <br />In 2005 in the Government Sector, 7386 metric tons of <br />CO2 were emitted into the atmosphere through City <br />vehicle use (FLEET), equipment and Employee <br />Commute this accounts for 27.7% of the City’s CO2 <br />emissions. <br />Insert here VMTs <br />Insert here metric for equipment use <br />In 2005 the Community Sector, 165,764 tonnes of CO2 <br />equivalents were emitted into the atmosphere <br />through vehicle use within the confines of the city <br />limits. This accounts for 31.6% of the community’s CO2 <br />emissions. <br />Insert here VMTs <br /> <br />