TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Low carbon transportation will save our lives as well as getting us where we need to go

Connecticut’s transportation sector is the biggest single emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the state at 38% of the total. This is a climate crisis, and we must immediately work to address the greatest challenge of our generation.

I support a transportation plan that is focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and pollution while investing in sustainable transportation modes. Bus transit, rail, walking, and biking must be improved across the state, especially in cities and town centers.
This transportation plan is also a land use plan, and we must stop investing in a sprawling, unsustainable development model. Future development in the state must be in cities, town centers, and near transit stations.
We should not be investing in expanding interstates. Expanding our interstates in Connecticut both increases emissions in the long term from induced demand and increased driving while putting development pressure on the state’s dwindling forests and farms.
Many cities and towns in the region have shovel-ready plans to improve transit, rail, and active transportation. We must invest in a future with more people on buses, trains, on foot, and riding bicycles. That future includes more transit-oriented development in walkable communities.
Addressing greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles also means immediate health benefits for our most overburdened populations as a result of improved air quality and fewer emissions of localized pollutants responsible for cancer and respiratory and cardiovascular ailments, among other adverse health impacts.

Since whether or not Vermont joins TCI, Vermonters will pay at least some of the costs, it would seem a no-brainer that we join. Especially if we receive more revenue than we contribute.
I fully agree that a significant portion of the TCI proceeds should go to reducing the energy burdens of Vermonters with low incomes.
That we are the only state in the Northeast to increase greenhouse has emissions since 1990 and that our per capita emissions are the highest in New England, is a disgrace. We must do everything possible to ensure a clean future for our children and grandchildren.

Total BS. Leave us alone. We already pay too much in gas taxes for sub par roadways run by sub par politicians and their minions.

I ride the Concord Bus from Augusta to Boston several times each year. I want the busses to be battery powered like my car. It was a joy
for me to switch over to my EV from driving a fossil fuel burner. It's time to have our public transportation reflect the necessity of keeping fossil fuel in the ground. Let's DO THIS!

I oppose this initiative. TCI is a tax, gasoline tax to be specific and such a tax was recently voted down. TCI does not allow our elected officials to vote. It’s another attempt to change policy without input from the people. We have already told government that we do not support a gas tax!

This should be voted on it shouldn’t be something that the government just does Mr. Baker.

This is just another tax on citizens. Massachusetts leadership are not fiscally responsible. MA. citizens get screwed enough.