text: President Obama has also wanted "to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions," (Rosenthal 1), he revealed last week. Although the United States' rate of car ownership per person and per household has started to decrease, there are still more things that could be done to create a long-term cultural shift. (Rosenthal 1) New York has recently created a bike-sharing program that has done remarkably well. Many cities have proposed plans to make personal vehicle ownership impractical or undesirable. (Rosenthal 1) Even Bill Ford, the owner of the Ford Car Company, suggested an idea to creat cities in which "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety," at the Mobile World Congress last year. (Rosenthal 1)