There's a really cool program in San Francisco called City Car Share that's sort of a compromise between individual car usage and public transportation.
You pay a monthly fee, and reserve one of the fleet cars online whenever you want. When you're done, you just park in one of their designated spots. You don't even pay for gas.
It's a good idea for us because unlike the rest of the planet, we're in deep denial about environmental damage (actually, we know there's a problem, but greed gets in the way of doing anything about it) and addicted to our personal mobility.
Does that kind of thing exist elsewhere? Europe's transportation system is so much better than ours that it's probably redundant there, but I'm just curious.
