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1. In my town, public transportation was never very good. |||公共|公共交通|||| ||||transporte público|||| You had to drive everywhere, so there was always traffic. 你必须无论去哪里都开车，所以总是有交通拥堵。 The government wanted to make public transportation easier than driving cars. |||||||更方便||| |el gobierno||||||||| 政府希望把乘坐公共交通变得比开车更容易。 They bought some nice new buses, for example, and they added air conditioning to the ones we already had. ||||||||||||||这些|那些||| ||||||||||agregaron|||||||| 他们买了一些漂亮的新巴士，例如，还为我们已有的巴士添加了空调。 They also began offering lower bus fares on the weekends. |||||公交车|||| ||||||ticket prices||| ||||||tarifas||| ||comenzaron|ofrecieron|||tarifas||| so more people would be encouraged to try the new buses. |||||motivated||||| |||||animadas a||||| They raised taxi fares, too. |aumentaron||| I guess they figure that if taxis cost more. people might think about using buses more often.

2. Well, the problem was that thousands of people drove into the city center every day. |||||miles|||conducían|||||| and there weren't enough parking spaces. |||||espacios de estacionamiento So the government wanted to make parking easier. But they didn't build more parking garages. ||||||停车场 ||||||garagens de estacionamento ||||||garajes Instead, they tried to keep cars out of the city center. Recently, they started making people who drive their cars downtown pay a daily fee. ||||||||||||diaria| You have to pay $10 if you want to drive your car into the center between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. At the same time, they have raised the parking lot rates, so people think twice before they drive their car into the city. ||||||||||收费标准||||||||||||

3. Traffic was a real problem around here. It moved so slowly. Last year the government turned a bunch of streets downtown into one-way streets. ||||||一批||||||| ||||||un montón||calles||||| El año pasado, el gobierno convirtió un montón de calles en el centro de la ciudad en calles de sentido único. 去年政府将市中心的许多街道变成单行道。 This helped the traffic move more quickly. Esto ayudó a que el tráfico se moviera más rápidamente. 这有助于交通更快地移动。 Special lanes on roads just for buses were built at the same time. |||carreteras||||||||| Se construyeron carriles especiales en las carreteras solo para autobuses al mismo tiempo. 与此同时，还为公交车建造了专用道路。 If you're caught driving your car in a bus lane. ||被抓到||||||| ||atrapado|||||||carril de autobús you have to pay a fine—and it's a really high fine! |||||罚款|||||| |||||penalty|||||| |||||multa|||||| Also, they passed a law last year that says you can only drive your car downtown three days a week. You have to display a special pass in your car that says which days you're allowed to drive downtown. |||展示||||||||||||||| |||mostrar|||permiso||||||||||||

4. Air pollution in our city was a huge problem, and we really needed to lower it. |contaminación del aire|||||||||||||reducirla| I guess that's why the government started putting special bicycle lanes on the streets downtown. |||||||||自行车道||||| That way. people can ride their bikes to work instead of using their stinky cars! ||||||||||他们的|臭烘烘的| |||||||||||smelly| |||||||||||fedorentos| ||||bicicletas|||||||apestosos| They also made a rule that says there must be at least two people in your car if you want to drive downtown during the week. ||||regla||||||||||||||||||||| They also ordered these amazing new pollution-free buses. They use electricity. ||他们用电。 so they don't put anything bad into the air.