Global Trend: Taiwan YouBike System Helps Make Taiwan Greener

UBike are very popular in lots of cities in Taiwan.

Although Taiwan is a pretty small country, it has a huge population. For city such as Taipei, where most people live and work, UBike has become one of the most convenient transportation methods.

It's usual to see lots of people waiting at the roadside or at the bus station in the morning, trying to rush to work on time. However, if everyone uses UBike instead of cars or buses, we can save a lot more time. When people are squeezing in the bus or in the traffic jam, you are riding the bike on the path and going around easily. Also, with a seemingly countless amount of bicycle parking stations located around the city, many of which are located within walking distance of MRT stations, make it much easier for those who are taking the MRT.

UBike is not just a beneficial network of bicycles but also a system that helps make Taiwan more greener. In responds to environmental and social challenges of climate change and global warming, countries around the world have proposed many sustainable development programs in the hope of achieving the goal of sustainable transportation and low carbon pollution. Cars and scooters are the most popular transportation in Taiwan, and has produce more damage to the environment than what we imagine. Everyday, thousands of cars and scooters are running

on the roads, every one of them could produce air pollutants into the atmosphere. When all the pollutant that cars and scooters made goes into the air, serious damage to the atmosphere could be caused easily. The air quality can be polluted by the carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides and could cause huge damage such as global warming. However, if people could take UBike more often, the numbers of cars and scooters will decrease, as well as the pollution that they produce.

UBike could cause less pollution.