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Like many cities across the country, San Francisco city leaders are trying to cut carbon emissions and reduce traffic congestion by convincing more people to commute to work by bicycle. With gas prices hitting all-time highs, cycling also is a cheap alternative. But getting people out of their cars can be an uphill climb.
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Like many cities across the country, San Francisco city leaders are trying to cut carbon emissions and reduce traffic congestion by convincing more people to commute to work by bicycle. With gas prices hitting all-time highs, cycling also is a cheap alternative. But getting people out of their cars can be an uphill climb.
Broadcast History
Aired twice locally on morning of 5/12/08, during Morning Edition B segment.
Transcript
[AMBI 1: fade up traffic sound for a second. Roll under my voice and keep up.]
Frustrated by $4 a gallon for gas? Fed up with congestion like the traffic jam here on San Francisco?s Market Street?
Not Libby Wood. Last year, this 25-year-old graphic designer sold her Volvo when she moved to the Bay Area from Vermont?and bought a bike. Now Wood cycles everywhere. She?s saving nearly $1300 a year in gas and cutting her annual carbon emissions by 8500 pounds. Stopped with her bike at the busy intersection of Market and Van Ness, Wood shares her love for riding, saying it gives her?.
T58 WOOD: the independence and the money in my savings account are just?. I thank my bike every day [cut: and I?m just glad the social group I?m in is a lot of avid bicyclists?..you know, encouraging people who are friends of mine] It?s just so fun.
[AMBI 2: fade up street ambi for a second, roll under m...
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Like many cities across the country, San Francisco city leaders are trying to cut carbon emissions and reduce traffic congestion by convincing more people to commute to work by bicycle. With gas prices hitting all-time highs, cycling also is a cheap alternative. But getting people out of their cars can be an uphill climb. From KQED in San Francisco, Marjorie Sun reports.
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