TRANSDEF submitted
its comments today on Plan Bay Area, the
regional transportation plan for the Bay Area.
A condensed version
for policymakers was
submitted earlier. Here’s a summary of the top
points about the Draft EIR: Read
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Tags: RTP, Smart Growth, Induced Demand, HOT, HOV, VTA
The Air Resources Board
produces a Scoping Plan every 5 years. It is the
guiding document for the GHG emissions reductions
needed to implement California’s climate policy.
TRANSDEF submitted a massive comment set, made up of
1). General Comments; 2). VMT Reduction
Comments,
Attachment: Comments on State-level
Strategies; 3). Environmental Assessment
Comments,
Attachment: Comments on CHSRA 2016 Business
Plan; and
4). Comments on Regional Emissions
Reduction Targets. For more climate change
resources, see this page.
Tags: Highway Widening, HOT, HOV, CEQA, Carbon Tax, Induced Demand
TRANSDEF
submitted comments on Caltrans’ proposal to add
lanes to Highway 101 in San Mateo and Santa Clara
Counties. The letter details how futile it would
be to add more lanes to the highway, thereby
further continuing dependence on solo driving, the
cause of congestion in the first place.
Tags: CEQA, Caltrain, Caltrans, Highway Widening, Induced Demand, Congestion, HOV, HOT
TRANSDEF’s
organizational focus is the reduction of GHG
emissions from transportation. Much of our work has
involved the state’s policy-setting agency for
climate change, the California Air Resources Board,
or ARB. ARB has produced generally excellent climate
change plans, called Scoping Plans. However, it has
consistently been weak in the area of reducing GHG
emissions from transportation, despite determining
that nearly half of the state’s GHG emissions are
generated by the transportation sector.
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Tags: ARB, RTP, CTC, Highway Widening, Congestion, HOT, HOV
TRANSDEF’s Comments to the
Transportation Authority of Marin
Regional Transportation Plan Discussion, 10-27-11
You have the authority to set a
very new direction for transportation in this county.
But you would never know it by reading the staff
report. Judging by the report, this agenda item
appears to be just another routine item.
The whole point of this agenda item last month had
been to ask you what weight to give to each of the
RTP candidate priority criteria. But that focus has
been buried. It isn't at all clear what you are
expected to do with this item. If you had been
properly briefed by staff, you would recognize this
item as the ultimate transportation policy setting
discussion.
In my view, this is yet another in a long history of
presentations shaped to maintain the status quo.
TAM's predecessor agency had an ugly practice of
keeping decision makers in the dark, so as to have
staff positions
rubber-stamped.
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Tags: Highway Widening, HOV, Marin
MTC continues to make
ludicrous claims that their proposed HOT lanes
network will result in decreased GHG emissions,
despite the new lanes’ encouragement of a significant
increase in driving in the Bay Area. Given MTC’s
intention to go forward with this massively
counterproductive project, it is heartening that the
Sightline Institute has produced an important study
on the expected long-term increase in GHG emissions
that will result from highway widening. Finally,
someone in transportation is making sense! See
our Smart Growth
Resources page.
Tags: Highway Widening, HOV, HOT, Induced Demand