Adelaide Metro

Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

To prevent global warming leave your car at home and use Adelaide Metro public transport.

Benefits

• Less burnt fuel
  
  
• Reduction of urban air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions
  
  
• Fewer cars on the road - less traffic, noise and congestion
  
  
• You save money - over $10,000* a year
  - more details here.

You can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 3.1 tonnes a year by using public transport.

If you drive 25 kilometres to work every day, this trip will produce up to 3.1 tonnes of greenhouse gases annually, as well as urban air pollutants. You can play a part in helping the environment by using public transport and leaving the car at home! The more people using public transport means there are fewer cars on the road. Each kilometre you save by not driving your car to work means less fuel burnt, reducing urban air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. A family car generates up to a third of a kilogram of greenhouse gases per kilometre. Every litre of petrol saved reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 2.5 kilograms.

Figures based on 231 working days per year (46.2 weeks) driving a Commodore Executive VZ automatic 3.8L sedan emitting 270.5g CO2/km and with a Greenhouse rating of 4.5. Figures taken from Green Vehicle Guide, supplied by the Australian Greenhouse Office.

Adelaide Metro's gas powered buses - clean and green

Adelaide Metro's new environmentally friendly gas buses are comfortable, air-conditioned and fully accessible.

The Adelaide Metro's gas buses greatly reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 50%, carbon monoxide emissions up to 80%, nitrogen oxide emissions up to 90%, particularly sulphur and lead emissions as well as reduce traffic noise.

There are now 214* natural gas buses in the Adelaide Metro fleet
*as at June 2007

Adelaide Metro is a healthier alternative

South Australian greenhouse gas emissions from transport
by vehicle category

If 5,100 people caught public transport instead of driving their car 10kms to work each day, green house gas emissions would be reduced by 7,000 tonnes per year.

Work it out for yourself with the
Adelaide Metro FUEL Savings Calculator!

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