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I strongly support the TCI-P for Virginia. I particularly support it in view of the fact that the Biden administration is now working to update transportation and other infrastructure with an intent to mitigate Climate Change. We are in the midst of a crucial paradigm shift and the stronger the partnership working through that change, the better. Virginia needs a TCI-P Model Rule to make sure that overburdened and underserved communities in Virginia receive an appropriate share of investments from the program.

I believe it is important for the TCI-P Model Rule to include a minimum investment amount to ensure overburdened and underserved communities in Virginia receive a greater-then-proportional share of investments from the program, integration of air quality commitments across Virginia, and robust empowerment of Virginia's Equity Advisory Body.

If you want to bankrupt the U.S. citizens, go ahead with this tax hike. I vote “No.”

RAIL Solution is a 501(c)(3) rail advocacy group, promoting the energy, economic, and environmental advantages of railroad transportation.
Decarbonization of the transportation sector is a vital endeavor. Unfortunately efforts are uniformly targeted at highway vehicles and railroad electrification is consistently ignored. It is proven technology, in widespread use worldwide except in North America. Billions are being spent to develop electric delivery vans, trash trucks, and school buses, all of which operate very limited miles and hours daily. Meanwhile diesel locomotives by the thousands operate tens of thousands of miles across America every day. This is the proverbial low-hanging fruit. Rail is already about four times more energy efficient than over-the-road trucking. Less fuel consumed means less pollution created, lowered greenhouse gas emissions, and less impact on climate change. It follows that as much surface freight transportation should move by rail as possible. Carrying the trucks on trains instead of driving each one is where the real benefit lies. Electrification has the potential to double rail's advantage. It's time to go there. It's shovel ready!

I would like to submit my disapproval for the Commonwealth of Massachusett's participation in the TCI.

Dear Governor Scott,
Please support legislation for changing our industries and transportation methods to stop the destruction of our precious planet.
Thank you,
Karen J Hibbard
Burlington

In any and all plans, it is a MUST that all communities be brought to the table. By this I mean, community-specific outreach must be made to communities whose voices in the past have been absent due to inequities of income, class, education, occupation, race, and culture. In our community of Winooski, the most diverse in Vermont, it took Students to educate the Schools on racial equity, for example!

Attention to Equity in addressing Climate and Energy is essential for our country's future. Whether farmer, hourly service worker or caregiver, immigrant, tradesperson, or businessperson, educator, or what have you, some people will be more apt to show up in this kind of questionnaire. If groups of people are not being heard from, reach out to them. I believe this will result in the most effective and just changes going forward.

Thank you,
Kathleen Voigt Walsh
Winooski, VT 05404