3.5 Transportation

Public transportation continues to be an ongoing struggle especially in bigger cities. With the increase in career development such as we see in the San Francisco area, we see an increase in transportation.  We take into consideration the BART system, Amtrak and taxis, however, we still find many continue to drive to work. In order to help promote health, it would be great to have more affordable and a variety of options available to those that commute from other cites to help reduce the amount of pollution and waste we see from driving our own vehicles daily. 

I  was also interested to find that studies found men specifically that commute to work using public transportation were 44.6% less likely to be overweighed. It is not only beneficial for your health but also to help reduce your driving time and allows you to have extra time to work on your way. If there were more options available to help promote health in order to reduce the environmental risks, more people would be open to alternatives.