How can city administrators encourage energy conservation?

Question

which do you think is the best. to lower parking fees, build larger parking lots, decrease the cost of gasoline or lower the cost of bus and subway fares?

Answer 1

Do away with poloticians and people who love to get re-elected. However Increase the ease of public transport such as light rail and subway. Buses emit toxic gas and pollute the air but less than a multitude of cars.
The answer is hydrogen or non fossil fuels which we already have and then it does not matter so much about the cars . They are the biggest polluters at the moment. Decreasing subway fares and bus fares is not the answer unless you have routes and convenience that meet the needs of the person who needs to get from a to b

Answer 2

the best way is a multi-phase approach:
jack up parking prices and reduce its availability
raise gas prices
lower public transportation fares, and make mass transit more convenient

if you decrease the cost of driving (lower gas prices) it just encourages people to drive. more and cheaper parking does the same thing.

Answer 3

If you know a city administrator who can lower the cost of gas, please let me know who he is.

That not being feasible, another possibility is to ring the downtown area with parking lots, and have low-cost shuttle buses into town and strictly prohibit most traffic in town (excepting delivery vehicles, taxis, out-of-towners and the disabled).

Depending on the climate, they can push the development of bicycle travel, and pedal one themselves to set an example.

Each city is unique, and in general, it is hard to retrofit a city to a given solution short of razing the city (which may a drastic, but effective solution).