TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Transportation is our largest source of global warming emissions (regionally and nationally). Action is desperately needed and I would kindly request that NJ formally join the plan to reduce emissions. The policy must have a strong component of equity by prioritizing clean investments in areas overburdened by pollution and/or for those who don't have access. I thoroughly appreciate the bipartisan nature of this project, moving us forward while the federal government takes us backward.

We as a nation have prioritized private automobile transportation as the default option for both local and long distance trips. That choice has resulted in road congestion, pollution, overdependence on fossil fuels, and a failure to make public transportation widely accessible and affordable. It is imperative that we shift our attention and funding to methods of public transportation that will increase our mobility and reduce damage to the planet.

The vehicles from Diesel Brothers TV show and the like, truck pulling. tractor pulling, monster trucks, mudbog trucks, all levels of race cars, trucks, and motorcycles, and all home/shop built vehicles must be made to meet all EPA regulations the same as streetcars/trucks. There can be no exceptions. The argument is well, they are specialty vehicles and should be exempt. Never, they must, in the near future, be held to a much higher standard.

I believe New Jersey (and all states) should enforce limits on transportation pollution and invest in clean, modern transportation solutions. Climate change is real, and human pollution is the major contributor. We owe it to all creatures who share the planet, to take aggressive steps to curb all forms of pollution. It is our duty.

We must reduce pollution from transportation, which is our largest source of global warming emissions (regionally and nationally).
I request that NY state formally join the plan to reduce emissions.
The policy should also have a strong component of equity by prioritizing clean investments in areas overburdened by pollution and/or for those who don't have access.
thank you for the bipartisan nature of this project, moving us forward while the federal government takes us backward

I am pleased that my home state, Massachusetts, is a member of the Transportation and Climate Initiative. As an informed person who understands that the carbon emissions from our current transit system is one of the region's biggest contributions to greenhouse gases, I see that it is of utmost importance that the TCI release a solid, workable plan to revitalize our transportation infrastructure to something that is more modern, efficient, and above all low carbon. The solution needs to make actively invest in clean technologies, with a particular emphasis on equity for areas that are currently overburdened by transportation pollution. The pollution emitted from vehicles has for years caused immediate harm to those communities via air pollution; that harm needs to be addressed. Success for the TCI must include working for all communities in the region and use the science to make active improvements. As our federal government is currently failing to address greenhouse gas emissions, it is all the more important for initiatives like TCI to build a sustainable framework for a greener, healthier future.

The time is long overdue that the US begin to provide mass transit and long distance transit to its citizens. The fires in California and Australia are proof that this needs to be done now. Stop the support of fossil fuels, stop building roads, put money into rail and support the mass transit and we citizens will use it. The so-called greatest nation in the world must start thinking about the population as a whole instead of millions of individuals going their own ways.

We must reduce pollution from transportation, our largest source of global warming emissions.
And this is New York's opportunity to formally join the plan to reduce emissions.
The policy must have a strong component of equity by prioritizing clean investments in areas overburdened by pollution.
I am grateful for the bipartisan nature of this project, moving us forward while the federal government takes us backward.