Sustainable City, endearing home

This article is written by Carmen Woo from The Straits Times. The article can be found here :
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_568334.html

This article tells us about the Concept Plans of 2011 to make Singapore a sustainable city. This is done mainly by reducing the costs of public transport, and increasing the costs of private transport, thus making Singapore a greener city by using public transport. This Concept Plan is crucial to Singapore as it will be carried out for around 40-50 years.
Some examples of encouraging citizens to make use of public transport is by reducing the costs of buses and train tickets. Also, another new proposal is the use of multi-modal season passes. This is to enable the citizens to travel freely during a designated time, and at a designated area. Cheap shuttle buses to train stations and light rail transit stations is another proposal.
To discourage citizens from using private transport such as cars, a proposal to reduce parking spaces and bringing up the price of parking a car is being brought up.

I feel that this is a good way to help Singapore live up to its name as a "Green City". Being green, a country has to try all means to help the country, not wasting resources as be as conservative as possible. The proposal of making public transport run on electricity instead of fuel is also another way to keep green. Promoting the use of public transport not only helps Singapore live up to its name, it also helps the world to cope with global warming. Right now, not many countries in the world have an abundance of plants and trees throughout the country. If Singapore continues pursuing to modernize the country, and leaving nature lagging behind, we will be like the other countries that are full of industrialization and urbanization. Therefore, I feel that keeping Singapore green is good and we should cherish what we have