TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

We must view transportation within the context of climate change and land use. Richmond has taken one good step forward by developing the Pulse (BRT) system and reconfiguring other bus routes, but we need a regional approach to expand mass transit options and to make biking and walking safer and more pleasant. A denser urban environment that provides commercial options closer to residential areas also reduces travel times and greenhouse gas emissions.

We need to do everything we can to cut greenhouse gas and polluting emissions. Please support clean vehicles! I support the TCI.

Time to put a stop to the undue and dangerous influence of the fossil fuel industry. We've been being held up for far too long by these bandits.

This entire initiative is ill-conceived, beginning with the baseless attribution of the reported warming trend, and of the severity of weather events, to emission of greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide. The imposition of such a cap-and-invest system would only raise costs to consumers and accomplish nothing to mitigate or moderate whatever future climate trends are measured or whatever future weather events occur in our region. New York's population is already declining, so this restrictive plan seems likely to accelerate that trend as other regions and states avoid similar misguided ideas. I therefore strongly oppose the adoption of the elements of this most unwise plan.

I support the Transportation and Climate Initiative because the climate crisis has already begun and we must do everything in our power to curtail emissions. Making public transit easy, effective, and affordable is critical in reducing vehicle emissions. The benefit to reducing traffic directly helps commuters as well as reducing the knock-on emissions of idling in traffic.

Attached is a slide deck that provides case studies of three cap-and-invest policies that have included equitable guardrails and guarantees, in California, Oregon, and New York, to serve as models for equity provisions in a TCI Model Rule.

Attached is a slide deck to accompany Green For All's "Designing an Equitable Cap-and-Invest Policy for Transportation" toolkit.

I strongly support the Transportation and Climate Initiative policy. I’m proud to live in a state that is taking appropriate steps to tackle the climate crisis, and I think that initiatives such as this one will provide for a healthy and prosperous future for those living in the targeted areas. I live in an area that is growing exponentially, and this growth has had, and will continue to have, its costs. My children’s school is less than a mile from home but we have to drive, instead of walk or cycle, because there are no adequate sidewalks or bike lanes. With increasing traffic in the area my family would love to be part of the solution and be one less vehicle on the road. The environmental benefits to this policy I think are obvious but the health benefits maybe not so much unless you or someone you know suffers from breathing problems. I have asthma and there is no doubt that my asthma attacks are increasing in frequency and severity. Knowing that there could be multiple causes for this increase that fact is air pollution has been shown to be one of those causes, and air pollution is something that we can control via policies such as the TCI policy. I want my children to have the same opportunities that I had growing up, but I fear climate change is going to make that very unlikely. For our children and their children and so on, let’s do what we can to ensure they can get to school, work, etc. safely and with as little impact on their one and only home as possible.