TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

We are aware that ransportation is the number one source of climate pollution in the United States. That means it's time to totally reimagine the way that we transport people and goods.

The states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and the city of Washington, D.C., are working on a groundbreaking policy to modernize the transportation sector under the Transportation and Climate Initiative. As current residents of Pennsylvania, and expecting to be residing in Virginia by summer 2020, the issues of improving the regional updates and improvements of our transportation systems and options in this area directly concerns us.

In order for this regional plan to work, governors of these states and the mayor of Washington, D.C., must ensure that this transportation plan is bold enough to cut harmful transportation pollution at the scale needed to avert the climate crisis. 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

We want you to know that we are among the citizens who want to see a bold and ambitious plan to cut transportation pollution in their state and in the region.
Thank you for your receiving and hearing our concern. Please do work on transportation options to cut pollution and protect our enviornment in our region!

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

Thank you.

In order to save our planet low emission cars are a step in the right direction and I support this step in the right direction.

I (and many other citizens) want cleaner choices. We need government leadership to incentivize industry to give us those cleaner choices. Doing so will benefit me, you, and the future of the whole world. Thank you for your attention.

Not to modernise our transportation infrastructure and habits in the face of climate change and the increasing marginalisation of rural areas like my own is unconscionable. You need to support this initiative with all available means to stave off rapidly approaching natural, social, economic and civic catastrophe. Hiding your head in the sand is not the answer - we've waited too long to address this disaster already.

We need this initiative. We must reduce our dependency on carbon. We need to build a modern transportation system that will serve the next 5 generations, and do it without dependence on fossil fuels. Please approve this initiative. Our future depends on it.

As a Pennsylvania resident, I write in strong support of the Transportation and Climate Initiative. The transportation sector has perhaps the greatest potential for transformation in the wake of climate change, in ways that can decrease emissions and increase connectivity. In Philadelphia, while I applaud the heterogeneous integration of bus, trolley, elevated train, and regional rail systems, much more investment is needed to increase reliability and service range. Moreover, given our placement at the nexus of the New Jersey-Pennsylvania-Delaware tri-state area, the city is ripe for increasing the means, convenience, and affordability of transportation. Finally, it is an embarrassment that it is easier for a Philadelphia resident without a vehicle to travel to New York City--two states away--than it is to travel within Pennsylvania. These forms of investment can work in concert to build a more sustainable and connected Pennsylvania and Northeast Corridor. Thank you for your consideration.

We need more public transit and electric vehicle infrastructure in rural areas!
We need Expansion of commuter rail, electric vehicles, and streets in the suburbs that are safe, to walk or bike!
We need Sustainable and equitable housing near transit and electric bus fleets in urban communities.

I support the Transportation and Climate Initiative because the climate crisis has already begun and we must do everything in our power to curtail emissions. Making public transit easy, effective, and affordable is critical in reducing vehicle emissions. The benefit to reducing traffic directly helps commuters as well as reducing the knock-on emissions of idling in traffic.