TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions as quickly and as much as possible. This should have happened a long time ago. At this point in time, we are facing a climate emergency.

I live in York County and work in Lancaster County PA. We have consistently bad air. Reducing pollution from transportation is a key component to reducing Pennsylvania's emissions and improving the quality of the air we breathe here. Public transit investments that could be made with TCI proceeds would be valuable to that end.
I would like to see our leaders choose the aggressive greenhouse gas reduction target that the most recent climate science tells us we need. I want to see policy that prioritizes clean investments in areas overburdened by pollution and/or for those who don’t have access to transportation choices. Thanks for your consideration.

Pennsylvania should join this initiative. It is mandatory that we reduce carbon emissions and pollution from cars and trucks. It is imperative that policies are made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, individual actions are not enough, we need larger scale change fast. Modernizing our transportation system, including public transportation, will help everyone.

My family and I support a bold regional initiative that will set aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets.

Climate Change must be a major topic addressed by our government. The new types of energy (sun and wind) help with the Climate problem and create new jobs to replace the jobs lost in the oil and coal world. Addressing this issue supports all the people in the world, not just the super-rich. There is no reason not to get on board and make Climate Change a thing of the past.

Too many of our public buses and trains run on dirty energy and contribute to air pollution and climate change. Many trains, buses, and stations haven’t been retrofitted in decades. For many people in rural parts of our states, there are zero viable public transportation options, which forces them to drive.

By making polluters pay and creating a dedicated source of funding through TCI, we’ll finally be able to move our state to a 21st-century regional transportation system that is cleaner, more reliable, more accessible, and more affordable. We’ll see less traffic, thousands of new jobs, and less dangerous air pollution. All communities — whether urban, suburban, or rural — will benefit.

Transportation is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. We need to address this source immediately if we are going to truly mitigate the damage that climate change is going to cause. We cannot simply depend upon the market to make the right choices - it will take too long and not go far enough. Some type of government intervention is needed. The air in Bucks County PA is already bad too often with transportation being a major contributor to the problem. We need a coordinated regional response to address our air quality.

Action is urgently needed to combat climate warming and the concomitant disasters

The planet Earth is facing a climate crisis. The polar ice is melting, and almost everywhere the climate is warming. Extreme weather events are multiplying.

Much of this problem is caused by emissions into the atmosphere for which human beings are responsible. We must take immediate, forceful action to cope with this problem, or our children and grandchildren will have Hobbesian lives - nasty, brutish and short.