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Reduce Private Vehicle Ownership by 90% by Pigou's Dream

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SUBJECT: Your proposal in the Climate CoLab
Proposal: Reduce Private Vehicle Ownership by 90%
Contest: Atypical Ideas for Carbon Neutrality
Thank you for your contest entry. We appreciate your willingness to share your ideas and also the time and effort you put into developing a proposal and submitting it to the contest.
We, the Judges, have strongly considered your proposal and found that it contained intriguing elements; however, we have chosen to not advance it to the next round of competition. We had many excellent proposal and are not able to advance all the entries that promising potential.
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Below this note you will find some feedback from our judges—we hope you find this interesting and insightful.
We are honored to have your contribution as part of our innovative search for ways of making Somerville carbon neutral by 2050. We hope that by working together, we all can create solutions that wouldn’t otherwise be possible.
2015 Climate CoLab Judges


This is an interesting proposal, but we must balance all modes, while meeting aggressive targets for non SOV modes.

This is a popular idea. Similar systems have been implemented in NYC and SFO, but reductions have been much less dramatic with single digit reductions i.e. <10%

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