TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Climate change is the existential issue. We must do better to save our planet home. Everyone and every industry must cooperate.

As a business owner and frequent traveler to your region, I urge you to create a broad transportation system that is favorable for biking and walking, frequent & reliable public transportation, greater access for electric vehicles, and a more equitable, cleaner public transportation system. Thanks for including my input.

The Earth belongs to ALL life equally. It doesn't belong only to the rich, it's not there's to ruin & destroy. All life has the right to clean, healthy air, water & land. Climate change is going to destroy the Earth and all life on it if we continue down the path we're on. We need to reduce transportation emissions in ALL states immediately.

As a PA and Chester County resident I support this initiative to take effective measures to deal with Climate Change.

We need cleaner air for everyone!
We also need better transportation in the state of DE.

Please design a regional low-carbon transportation policy proposal that would cap and reduce carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels through a cap-and-invest program or other pricing mechanism.
Please complete the policy development process within one year, after which each jurisdiction will decide whether to adopt and implement the policy.

And please hurry! Our soil-based carbon sinks are not yet keeping pace.

Thanks for your attention to this.

I am doing everything I can as an individual to reduce my carbon emissions. I bought an electric-only car. I would like my state to make the same commitment and minimize mass transportation emissions. This is a climate emergency! Big investments and changes are required, by everyone!

I along with many other stakeholders and voters in the state of Maine would like to see a shift from highways and gasoline to clean modern electrified rail transit. This is the most efficient form of transportation and least polluting. When coupled with green power from Wind, and Solar, electrified rail can be 100% clean and carbon free. We have all the infrastructure in place in Maine to connect all our major cities and also through to other states and countries. We have wasted year spending huge amounts of our money on car and trucks and pavement and highways. We need to put in immediate moratorium on all highway expansion projects like the Gorham connector and Sanford connector and Turnpike expansion. All revenue generated by the tolls on the Maine Turnpike should be sent to the Norther New England Passenger Rail Authority, for expansed service to Rockland (immediately), and also to Lewiston/Auburn expansion via the St Lawrence Atlantic (state owned line) to the gateway terminal in Portland. We should also expand passenger services up to Augusta, Waterville, and Bangor. Longer terms expansion should be the reconnection of services on the Mt Division RR to northern New Hampshire. Passenger service from Lewiston to Quebec Via , Oxford, Norway and Bethel and the White Mts. Other expansions should include restoration of all current freight lines throughout the state. Charge tractor trailer trucks entering our state to pay very high tolls $100 per truck and put that money into freight service restoration. Reduce airport expansion in Maine instead put those millions into passenger rail service. Invest in electrified rail service with modern fast passenger unit that have 20+ trips per day between services. Stop building more and more parking garages in place like Portland. Charge a per car fee to enter the city. Use that money for rail. Raise the Gasoline tax by $1.00 per gallon and put that into Rail with local connecting bus service. Consider return of street car services on some areas, other areas use electric buses. Stop wasting huge amounts of tax payers money on Autonomous car technology. Driving 4000 lbs of metal on a asphalt roadway is not the future.