TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions
Material submitted through the TCI Public Input form from April 2019-February 2021 is viewable here. View input submitted from March 1, 2021 forward here. All material submitted on this page informed the participating jurisdictions in the 2019-2020 TCI regional policy design process. Click on the column headings to sort the submissions.
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2/21/2020 | Anne | Cheng | Private citizen | Stamford | Connecticut |
We need to increase investment and ridership on public transportation which would reduce wear on highway infrastructure, decrease emissions, and save citizens money needed for car-care expenses... |
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2/21/2020 | Rick | Nepola | Democrat | Stamfoed | Connecticut |
The mid and north Eastern Seaboard states need an alternativr system of transportation. Our current air, train, bus , truck and automobile transportation does not work effectively to provide... read more |
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2/22/2020 | Linda | Quinet | none | Willimantic | Connecticut |
The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) is needed to reduce transportation's heavy impact on pollution. read more |
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2/22/2020 | francis | mastri | none | Monroe | Connecticut |
The Transportation and Climate Initiative is an emerging issue, gaining traction up and down the East Coast. Now is the time for the region to take bold action to mitigate climate change and roll... read more |
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2/22/2020 | Sharon | Conway | Non profit director | W. Hartford | Connecticut |
We must make finding alternative means of transportation a high priority to limit the negative impact of private car and truck use. |
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2/22/2020 | Hugh | Birdsall | Reforest the Tropics | Clinton | Connecticut |
The electric bus is an idea whose time has come. Improving mass transit in general is one of the easier ways to mitigate climate change. Making mass transit free would be a positive step toward... read more |
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2/22/2020 | Thomas | Grant | WCSU | Bridgewater | Connecticut |
It just makes sense to convert as much transportation to electric as possible. Not only environmentally but financially in the long run. |
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2/22/2020 | Doug | Willians | CTPA | Easton | Connecticut |
Yes let’s expand electric buses and the green initiative |
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2/22/2020 | Vinod | Srinivasaraghavan | Resident | New Fairfield | Connecticut |
Hi - I’d support any and all efforts to quickly transition CT over to clean energy. I think we should build more electric car charging stations, switch public transit (buses etc.) to electric, and... read more |
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2/22/2020 | Claire | Matthews | CTSI | Essex | Connecticut |
A plan to reduce carbon from transportation is overdue. The time for saving the planet is shrinking. We can not delay any longer. Everyone at every level of society must act now. Please... read more |
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2/22/2020 | Ronald | degray | University of Saint Joseph and Bike Walk Glastonbury board member | Glastonbury | Connecticut |
Transportation and climate initiatives are not only interstate issues but also intrastate issues. Therefore efforts need to include multimodal transportation and in particular passenger rail... read more |
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2/22/2020 | Kim Bova | Kaminsky | Kim Bova Photography | Mansfield | Connecticut |
Time is running out to limit global warming. Action has to begin now. I support all efforts to cap greenhouse gases and the pollution from transit, commuting and other sources that contribute to... read more |
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2/22/2020 | Carole | Osborn | Ms. | Winsted | Connecticut |
The Transportation and Climate Initiative is an emerging issue, gaining traction up and down the East Coast. Now is the time for the region to take bold action to mitigate climate change and roll... read more |
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2/22/2020 | Barbara | Vizoyan | Ms. | Manchester | Connecticut |
Indiciduals need to do all that is possible to amiliorate climate change, However much we do will not be enough to avoid catastrophe, Action from local to state to national governments NOW is... read more |
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2/22/2020 | Bettina | Rossi | - Select - | Bethel | Connecticut |
Throughout Fairfield County,the school buses are prevelant on our back roads and towns..and they also emit the most toxic black fumes..our children are breathing in those fumes and those fumes are... read more |
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2/22/2020 | John | Pratt | Citizen | WETHERSFIELD | Connecticut |
We are already spending billions of dollars to upgrade an aging transportation infrastructure that was first developed in the WW II era, then expanded massively in the 1960s. We must invest for... read more |
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2/22/2020 | shirley | mccarthy | Clean Energy Committee Branford | Branford | Connecticut |
Clean Transportation is a must both for climate mitigation and human health. We have to act now to curtail planet warming otherwise it will be too late. Additionally CT residents suffer from a... read more |
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2/22/2020 | Margaret | Sellers | None | No. Grosvenordale | Connecticut |
Electric is not without its bad points but it does not create quite as much carbon pollution as gasoline. We need to do all we can to reduce our carbon footprint. |
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2/23/2020 | Christopher R | Miller | Retired | Griswold | Connecticut |
I think this initiative is very important, and I am proud and gratified that my state is part of this New England alliance to take meaningful and needed action against the growing climate crisis.... read more |
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2/23/2020 | Orin | Robinson | Conservation | Mystic | Connecticut |
Needed for emissions control Electric school buses Electric police cars Electric charging stations |
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