TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

http://indepthnh.org/2019/12/10/opinion-opposed-to-atvs-on-trails-that-subject-people-animals-to-noise-pollution/

I have spent 30 years road cycling in NH and have experienced the increase in noise and traffic, which have sadly diminished the pleasure of being out on the road. When I hear from people in Coos about the ATV invasion there, on and off the roads, I understand their despair and appreciate that we do not have that problem here as well (yet.)

More important, ATVs are the lowest possible use rail trails. With global warming, the rail trails should be restored to serve the public as railroads. It is not rational to convert them to promote private consumption of fossil fuels for pleasure by the few, or as road bicycle routes, when roads are available for walking and cycling.

DNCR should cease averting its gaze from the fact that burning fossil fuels for fun is no longer sustainable (if it ever was), and support public transportation so tourism and movement of goods can continue without unsustainable use of fossil fuels. We need gas rationing, not the promotion of recreational burning of gas, which is insanity.

We need less cars on the road and more bicycles. An increase in bicycles will lead to slower and more respectful drivers. The shift needs to be away from moving road bicycles off the roads, to making cyclists’ right to use the roads clear to car drivers so beginning cyclists are not afraid to get out of their cars and on to the roads, and start commuting.

Following the money, or where corporations/government imagine it to be, has not proven a sustainable plan for NH or the earth. Governor Sununu needs to wake up to the unpleasant truth of environmental and social disaster awaiting us if we continue to assert our entitlement to consume gas and oil without limits of any kind.

Subsidies for fossil fuels and lack of a sane gas tax are the real and dangerous entitlement programs. "Give me convenience or give me death" is the first world entitlement mentality driving global warming.

We need a governor with a sane vision, something beyond "Fairy tales of eternal economic growth."

This TCI will increase the price of products being transported, what you are thinking of doing is not right to all businesses , but will hurt the little guy as well as consumers. What the heck is wrong that you don't see this. If you need money, stop supporting illegal immigrants. Stop giving tem everything for free, while your elderl and veterans suffer by the hands of you all. American citizens should be first to be taken care of.
I am so disgusted by m elected officials that I elected to fuck me over. If this goes through, I will never vote for any Democrat again.

We need better bus service with electric busses in CT in suburbs. And the rental bikes available in New Haven should be in suburbs also. We also need handicap accessible bus stops in suburbs most of the bus stops along rt 5 in Wallingford have no benches, shelters or places where a wheelchair can access the sidewalk or the street due to the curb. In CT outside of cities public transit is not convenient it is too difficult in many areas.

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.

Reducing fossil fuel emissions is good for the planet. We need to move forward when we can and take actions to solve the climate crisis at hand.

One of the ways to combat climate change is to improve public transportation. We should do that.

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

It is vitally important that we take drastic corrective measures to reduce our carbon emissions footprint, stop using fossil fuels which harm our environmental and personal health, and formulate other mitigating steps to facilitate and improve public transportation for this generation and for future generations. As the current saying goes, "There is no Planet B"... We must act now in the face of such dire consequences related to global warming and climate change!