HOT
Plan Bay Area Analyzed In Depth
06/01/17 Filed in: Transportation
Planning
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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ARB Scoping Plan Comments Filed
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.
Bay Area Clean Air Plan Comments
TRANSDEF submitted
its comments on the draft 2017 Bay Area Clean
Air Plan. They focus on the need to force MTC to
do its share of emissions reductions.
Highway Widening--Crazy Business
11/18/16 Filed in: Transportation
Planning
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.
CA is not Serious about VMT Reduction
02/05/17 Filed in: Climate
Change |
Transportation
Planning
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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MTC Wants to Bury Dumbarton Rail
The staff report for MTC’s Planning and
Allocations meeting, Wednesday, May 14 at 9:40 am
lays out MTC's plans to bury the Dumbarton Rail
project. Transit advocates have often noted that
this project is the only possible way to avoid the
cost of a new multibillion Transbay tunnel to deal
with the lack of capacity in BART's Transbay tube.
On April 23, TRANSDEF filed comments [this file without exhibits]
with MTC, asserting legal arguments for why the
proposed elimination of Regional Measure 2 funding
for the Dumbarton Rail Project would be both
illegal and unwise. [Comment file with the
full set of
exhibits.] Read
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Finally, Someone's Writing about Highway Widening
11/24/09 Filed in: Climate
Change |
Transportation
Planning
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.