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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇May 31, 2023

Just arrived in #Milan #Italy and one of the first things my wondering, jet-lagged eyes see is a tram on the grass.

That’s the way to make green transit even greener. Put the tram/streetcar tracks on a carpet of grass or sedum. 2 kms of track creates 1.5 football fields' worth of green space, reducing air pollution and urban heat island effect. (Wild grass is especially effective.)

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

I’ll be posting from #Italy for the next couple of weeks. If you want the full story, sign up for dispatches (free or paid), here: https://straphanger.substack.com/

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