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Table 3

Selected Strategies for Reducing Auto Emissions

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Reduction (%)

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Strategy

Description

HC

CO

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San Diego

Transit expansion

20-mile rail extension, double bus service

0.4

0.6

Ridesharing

Increase vehicle occupancy 25%

0.4

0.7

Flexible work

15% participation in telecommuting,

schedules &

5% shift in work hours

0.8

1.1

telecommuting

Land-use impacts

10% reduction in overall home-work distance

1.4

2.0

Traffic flow

Regionwide signal control

improvements

2.2

2.5

Parking management

60% increase in costs

2.4

4.1

Los Angeles

Transit expansion

Add 300 miles to rail system, expand bus

service by 50%

0.9

3.1

Traffic flow

Signal control, truck restrictions

improvements

2.1

4.9

Flexible work

Eliminate 3 million worktrips,

schedules &

60% participation in flexible schedules

2.2

6.9

telecommuting

Land-use impacts

25% reduction in overall home-work distance

4.1

11.8

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Sources: U.S. Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Air

through Transportation: Challenges in Meeting National Air Quality Standards (Washington: U.S.

Department of Transportation, 1994), p. 125.

Despite the apparent disconnect between the New Urban-

ists' claims and reality, their ideology has become the

dominant paradigm in the U.S. Department of Transportation

and in many state and metropolitan planning agencies.  Ulti-

mately, for New Urbanists, the goal is not to reduce conges-

tion and pollution but to reduce auto travel, even if only