ARB Not In Touch With Transporation
12/09/15 Filed in: Climate
Change |
Transportation
Planning
A collection of
TRANSDEF’s comments to the Air Resources Board (ARB)
was recently posted:
Testimony to ARB on Regional GHG Emissions Reduction Targets: “These targets will result in increased emissions in this sector, due to population growth. This is going in the wrong direction, and would send the wrong signal to the rest of the world about ARB's view of the need for urgent reductions in GHG emissions.”
ARB’s 2013 Scoping Plan Update: “Staff recognizes the need for "Fundamental transformation of transportation system needed to meet goals" but seems to have little grasp of the institutional barriers to that transformation.” Read More...
Testimony to ARB on Regional GHG Emissions Reduction Targets: “These targets will result in increased emissions in this sector, due to population growth. This is going in the wrong direction, and would send the wrong signal to the rest of the world about ARB's view of the need for urgent reductions in GHG emissions.”
ARB’s 2013 Scoping Plan Update: “Staff recognizes the need for "Fundamental transformation of transportation system needed to meet goals" but seems to have little grasp of the institutional barriers to that transformation.” Read More...
Big Flurry of End-of-Year Postings
12/09/15
The combination of
intense litigation activity and two personal losses
resulted in the TRANSDEF website falling seriously
behind in 2015. Taking advantage of a quiet spell
after the filing of the STB Opening Brief,
the site has been
reorganized and updated with large amounts of new
information. Look for the yellow NEW icons
scattered around.
An entirely new Government Dysfunction section was created. It now contains a page on the proposed MTC-ABAG merger. Watch for more pages! Many of the previous navigation tabs have been consolidated into new Regional Planning and County-Level Planning sections. Read More...
An entirely new Government Dysfunction section was created. It now contains a page on the proposed MTC-ABAG merger. Watch for more pages! Many of the previous navigation tabs have been consolidated into new Regional Planning and County-Level Planning sections. Read More...
Opening Brief Filed in STB Appeal
12/07/15 Filed in: High-Speed
Rail
TRANSDEF and its
allies Kings
County, Kings County Farm Bureau, California Citizens
for High-Speed Rail Accountability, Community
Coalition on High-Speed Rail, California Rail
Foundation, and Dignity Health today filed the Opening Brief in
their appeal of the federal Surface Transportation
Board’s Declaratory Order. That decision eliminated
the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s need to
comply with CEQA, due to the STB’s assertion of
federal preemption of all federal, state, and local
regulations pertaining to interstate railroads. See
the Briefs.