TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

We can cut poverty and pollution at the same time. We urge you to move forward with a regional program that prioritizes the needs of communities overburdened with pollution and underserved in mobility options.

You are kidding me and the people of this state. This TCI is completely ludicrous. I live and work in RI for the state and I drive an hour each way. I drive a 4x4 vehicle cause of snow I’m an RN I need to be there for my patients and fellow workers to relieve them. You expect us to pay more for gasoline ????? This is bullsh*t. Take your liberal ideas and stuff them. I like my house and don’t want to move because you are trying to rob me at the pump. Finally gas has been at a good low for the last 4 years and no you ,a holes, want to gouge me. This sucks for all RI residents. The facts are it won’t make but a 1-6% difference to the emissions output. So I think you need to rethink thus crazy TAX HIKE. Hey Gina WEAR YOUR MASK AND STAY HOME LIKE YOU TOMD ALL OF US.

Governor Mills and the others on this TCI committee are you all completely insane to put together this fuel tax increase on your constituents that are already burdened with more taxes than some can bare? We here in Maine have the highest percentage of elderly and are on fixed incomes and you rich politicians want to add more onto these folks and take more of their hard earn retirement money. You people in this initiative should be helping these people and not putting more weight of taxes upon them. Stop taxing us to death and stop the over spending of money you do not have.

As a lifelong Rhode Islander I have witnessed the misappropriation of funds obtained through our high fuel tax. The revenue collected is often diverted to the general fund to offset budget shortfalls. The intent of the state fuel tax was to maintain the state's infrastructure IE: roads and bridges. The TCI "tax" will achieve nothing other than to drive more people out of RI and create yet another state bureaucracy.

Our transportation system is stuck in the dark ages. Traffic congestion from millions of cars and trucks are polluting our lungs and planet more than ever before. In fact, transportation is our largest source of global warming emissions (regionally and nationally). I would like to see Delaware formally join the plan to reduce emissions. Let's prioritize the development of clean mass transit in areas overburdened by pollution and in areas where the population does not have access to convenient transport. Why not concentrate on mass transit rather than another lane of traffic on the interstate (which never seems to alleviate congestion)? Let's progress toward a clean transportation plan.
Thank you for promoting the bipartisan nature of this project, moving us forward while the federal government takes us backward.

The 44 undersigned members of Our Transportation Future and additional partners believe the Framework Policy Proposal offers an encouraging path forward for a modern, low-carbon, equitable transportation system.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment. Please see the attached recommendations on program design.

Comments on behalf of 28 members of Our Transportation Future in response to the September 16th webinar on TCI modeling and program design.

The attached comments are a re-submission of comments previously submitted on 10/30/2020, now on behalf of 200 organizations from across the 13 TCI jurisdictions, stating our support for an ambitious and equitable TCI program that includes strong safeguards and guarantees for overburdened and underserved communities.

I am requesting that my state formally join the plan to reduce emissions. I am demanding that the policy has 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 expressing my gratitude for the bipartisan nature of this project, moving us forward while the federal government takes us backward.