Persuasive Essay How To Make A Walkable City

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When we look at the results of our research , we can clearly see, that if you would like to make city more walkable, the state or more specifically the city would have quite a hole in the budget. They would be short of the money that they usually receive from parking fees. We calculated how much money city would ‘lose’ if they became more walking-friendly or as we say later - more walkable. Afterwards we will explain, how the city could benefit, from being walkable, even though they would lose some money from parking fees. However, on the other side, inhabitants of the city and people who drive there to work, visit or come to the city for any other reason and have to pay for parking every day (we anticipated that in average, people park for approximately 2hours), would benefit very much. We calculated they would save a lot of money, if the city would be more walkable, if you could get from one place to the other, just by using your feet and public transport. When you look at the possibility that …show more content…

Here we just looked at the solutions, on how to make city more attractive for walking. Parks and pavements were clear choices at the beginning. Nevertheless, more we looked at the other possibilities; the more we realized it is impossible to have a walkable city without well working public transport. Everywhere we looked for different proposals, we just came back to public transport. Updating public transport would be the biggest objective. The other important problem is making roads and pavements safe for people. Because if inhabitants and tourists do not feel safe there, they will not walk. Sp, if you want to make city walkable, you need to start with inhabitants, and make their life easier by getting the things they need every day (shops, cafés) in their neighborhood. Here we just researched the topic on the internet and tried to get new ideas there and try to look at how people and city would benefit from

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