text: In Germany, Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, or communiting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Therefore, Street parking and driveways are forbidden on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the French and Swiss borders. causing residents to react differenly. Passengers cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive area in the United States. Basic precepts are being adopted around the world in attempts to produce suburbs more compact and more accessible to pubilc transportation with less parking space. Also, the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced". Many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role.