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Local Travel Network signage that will be displayed on roads to indicate drivers they've entered the network of slower streets.It's a 243-mile network of streets that allows people to take a slower means of transportation to do a local trip. "We found out that 70% of our trips were 3 miles or less. Ninety percent of our trips were 10 miles or less," said Jacki Bacharach, executive director of the South Bay Cities Council of Government .The goal is not only to get people to think of alternate ways to take local trips, but to do them in an environmentally friendly way.
"If we're going to solve our greenhouse gas emissions, or at least take a dent into them, we're going to have to do something about transitioning to electric," said Bacharach.This is the first network of streets making way for a slower means of transportation in an urban setting.
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