TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

We need more and better public transportation, to reduce pollution and mitigate climate change. Also, our roads are too crowded already, as population is growing, we need more people to take public transportation - but it is not always convenient enough, we don't have enough of it.

Smaller, local buses into large neighborhoods such as Fairfax. Fairfax people have to walk long distances to the Concord Pike and/or Foulk Road to get a bus to downtown. We could have small buses at Thomas Rd and Fairfax Blvd; at Murphy Rd; Fairfax Blvd and Concord Pike at the small end of the shopping center, and at Fairfax Blvd and the bridge between Fairfax and Oak Lane Manor.

We need a plan that holds large transportation polluters accountable for the pollution they create and invests in clean transportation solutions including:

More public transit and electric vehicle infrastructure in rural areas
Expansion of commuter rail, electric vehicles, and streets in the suburbs that are safe, walkable, and bikeable
Sustainable and equitable housing near transit and electric bus fleets in urban communities

As someone highly concerned about climate change and its impact on our planet, I feel we do need to support this. The concept has a lot of flexibility, as I understand it, so that the poor are not overly and unfairly impacted. It will be vital for policy makers to ensure that such is the case. Bottom line, though, is that we must take action ASAP.

My initial thoughts/questions are attached in the file upload. I welcome discussion of them.

While in another time, many years ago, this would have been a good idea, but we have squandered our time neglecting the climate problem and now the TCI is too little too late. We need a massive plan to transform our society similar to the war effort in the Forties and TCI is a feel good bandaid on a massive wound and will just distract us from focusing on a plan that will comprehensively address this crisis. This plan among other things, must address the neglected parts of our society, for to work, it must have the support of all citizens. It must also address the main cause of the climate problem: the capitalist system where the wealthy prosper and the poor are left to their own devices to survive; making things for commerce's sake, not because we need these things; increasingly extracting material from the earth as if it is inexhaustible leaving behind a polluted earth and air now so degraded that we are on the brink of extinction - all in the pursuit of market projections that our businesses must not fail to meet not what is the best we can do for mankind. This is time for the boldest thinking we can muster if we are to survive - not this weak answer to the most dire issue mankind has created or faced.

Governor Scott,

Please support TCI in Vermont. We will likely already be paying in, because a lot of our fuel retailers are out of state, so we may as well take funds as well.

Thanks,

Our team is sharing an emission-free technology with France, Germany, Great Britian, Costa Rica and many more countries seeking to reduce the pollution and particle matter in their environment.

As transportation is our largest source of global warming emissions (regionally and nationally), I request that Connecticut formally join the plan to reduce emissions. This 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 am encouraged by the bipartisan nature of this project, moving us forward while the federal government takes us backward.