TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

More highways, more cars, trucks and pollution. It's not worth the cost. We could and should be way ahead with rail infrastructure. We have thousands of young men and women ready and willing to go to work to make this a reality and a country ready for future change.

Reducing pollution from transportation is one important step we can take to fight climate change and move toward a cleaner, better future. It is my great hope that Vermont will join in this regional endeavor. Please consider equity in your decision making - prioritizing clean investments in the most polluted areas where citizens don't have easy access to cleaner transportation opportunities. In an age where the federal government is stripping away environmental protections and threatening our children's very future, I commend this bipartisan effort to do more to help clean up our air and fight climate change in an equitable way that helps ALL people. I appreciate your consideration.

(1) A nationwide database by which people could find car-pool partners to get them to work. Most commuters are one person in one car. It's wasteful. (2) Rebuild our railroads, especially for freight. One locomotive can pull 100 freight cars, each of which can carry 2-?? trucks' worth of stuff. Once upon a time, no town in the U.S. was more than a few hours from a rail station, and most items got where they were going by rail. Let's go back to that. (3) Subsidize public transportation.

I strongly support the creation of an enforceable limit on transportation pollution and investment in clean, modern mobility solutions across the region! Transportation is currently a huge source of harmful emmissions that have wreaked climate chaos that has harmed people and other life (storms, floods, fires).

I live in Springfield, Massachusetts, which has the, shameful, statewide highest rate of respiratory illness in chidren, due to air pollution (and the city still puts vulnerable children on filthy, diesel-fueled school buses). The city's large minority, and poor population suffers most. Let's stop it now and move forward by mandating, and enforcing, clean transportation, in our cities, in our states, in our region! Please protect the children and the planet.

Thank your for your attention to this critically important issue.

REGIONAL POLICY FOR LOW-CARBON TRANSPORTATION WOULD HAVE BEEN ENACTED DECADES AGO IF OUR "GOVERNMENT" WASN'T SO HOPELESSLY CORRUPT.

It’s past time to take responsibility for our actions. We must protect what we have. Planets die, we are killing ours. Protect progeny.

We need more regulations to assist in attaining clean Air. We lived in Southern Calif when if you went into LA your eyes burned save it was so skinny you couldn't see much. Then they cleaned up that air. Car manufacturers want less polluting cars because their customers want that. Future generations will look back and judge the polluters who are ruining our earth for their own monetary profits.

We need more regulations to assist in attaining clean Air. We lived in Southern Calif when if you went into LA your eyes burned save it was so skinny you couldn't see much. Then they cleaned up that air. Car manufacturers want less polluting cars because their customers want that. Future generations will look back and judge the polluters who are ruining our earth for their own monetary profits.