TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Any increase in fuel prices would be disastrous to the Massachusetts commercial fishing fleet. The earth has increased in temperature 0.8 degrees Celsius since the 1800s. Charging working families more for fuel will do nothing to change the earth's temperature, but will take money away from our families and lower our standard of living.

I wish to make known my opinion that the TCI Initiative is a mere end run around established law to gain what amounts to another tax,which has already been refused by the voters.And takes control of said tax away from the voters,you may not have my permission to remove my given rights.

Under No circumstances will you raise the gas tax. Especially for a fashionable climate initiative. Quite frankly, I think this is just a rouse to finance the billions being spent on the MBTA.
You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Partnership for the Public Good is a community-based think tank with over 290 partner organizations. Many of our partners are concerned with both ecological justice and transportation issues. We have released several reports on these issues. Buffalo faces significant challenges when it comes to public transit. Over 50,000 households in our region lack access to a car, yet over half of the region's jobs are NOT accessible by public transit. Improving public transit in our region is imperative for promoting economic development, reducing racial disparities, fighting poverty, and decreasing air pollution. As part of your planning process, we implore you to incorporate a more robust busing system (more buses, more routes, and more frequency) as well a suggestion to expand the light rail through the east side of Buffalo to the airport. This addition will take advantage of existing public right of ways to make our public transit more accessible and efficient. We also ask that New York State reexamine its funding structure to more equitably fund WNY public transit.

Re Massachusetts:
The legislature should be the one to vote on this measure, not the governor. We are not paying the governor to make approve bills unilaterally. We pay the legislature for this function, so they can be held accountable.

I live in Mass for 45 years and I yet find any cause for anymore tax hike, Im a simple man working hard just to provide for my 4 kids and 5 grandchildren. And that was a job in itself, now its my turn to slow down and just work one job and the governor wants to tax me more its absurd half of young adult in this state don't work or can't work so its up to my generation to put into to city, state and federal tax and now you want more taxes very unfair. Never in my life have I worked in a job that pays me more than 42,000 a year how do you propose I live with this income and ontop of more taxes. Find another way.

I disapprove of any form of taxation, regardless of how deceitfully it is enacted. TCI is just that, a deceitful form of taxation.

1) Rural microtransit should be encouraged by making it easier to get passenger authority and receive STOA funding in NY, and wherever else it makes sense, by allowing smaller vehicles to become recipients without needing an exemption. Small vehicle operators will be crucial to improving rural transportation. 2) Electric light rail but especially heavy passenger rail needs to be a bigger part of the discussion. If the argument is that the ROI doesn't justify the expense, then the arguer is not thinking broad enough or long term enough. Much of economically struggling NY state, not to mention NE/Central East PA is within 2-3 hours of the NE Corridor, a super-region with the GDP roughly of Germany. Making connections to Philadelphia and NY via rail would have an enormous impact. A study was done a decade ago on connecting Binghamton to Scranton and to NYC with rail, and that has gone nowhere. 3) NYS needs to offer sustained funding for innovative mobility concepts already doing this work.