Draft Strategies
Federal law under 23 USC 135 requires that the statewide transportation plan be developed in consultation with the State’s Metropolitan Planning Organizations and the non-metropolitan local officials (or rural Regional Transportation Planning Agencies in California). The goal of the CTP 2035 consultation process is to ensure that the CTP incorporates the comments of the regional agencies and reflects the long range planning direction set in the regional transportation plans from across the State.The key outreach document to be used in this consultation process is the CTP 2035 brochure that describes the challenges facing the State, major topics to be addressed in the plan, new strategies being considered, and key public involvement opportunities. In addition to the brochure, each region is being provided with a copy of the strategies being considered for inclusion in the 2035 plan.
These strategies include the 79 strategies from the existing 2025 plan, as well as revisions recommend by the CTP 2035 Policy Advisory Committee and new strategies that have been proposed to date in various forums, meetings and in related efforts.
In reviewing the strategies, please consider the following:
- Are these the right strategies to address the challenges ahead? Are they consistent with your own Regional Transportation Plan?
- What’s missing? Are there ideas, concepts, and ways of approaching the challenges that we haven’t addressed?
- Are there any areas of concern or “red flags” in the strategies being proposed?
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Public Transit to Reduce GHG
Post #32 by Michael Bailey on September 22, 2009 8:43PM
An important part of the overall transportation plan needs to be public transit and making it more conveient for people to use. The schedules should be good, bus lines should to to where people want and need to go, and paying bus and rail fares should be easy. This will require several things. One is a commitment to transit. Another is to switch from diesel fuel to cleaner alternative fuels. One idea would be use hydrogen powered busses and use solar power at the bus bases to manufacture the hydrogen on site. Solar power does not pollute and the exhaust from hydrogen fuel is pure water vapor. Second, use all electric powered busses and use solar power at the bus bases to recharge the busses. Electric powered busses have zero emissions and the solar power is non-polluting. Third, use hybird busses powered by a combination of electric and hydrogen power with onsite solar energy to both manufacture the hydrogen and recharge the batteries. This is another clean power option. The same could work with railroad locomotives and Berlington Northern/Santa Fe has an all hydrogen powered switch locomotive it is field testing now at its Los Angeles train yard. And paying transit fare should be simple and not difficult for people to do. This can be done in a series of steps. The first step would be to put a stand beside component onto existing fare boxes. The stand beside system would operate on a computer program that would allow it to read and accept for cash fare the plastic SMART cards from different transit agencies as well as accepting credit cards and ATM cards for fare. The next step would be an all new farebox that would be cashless. The fare box would read and accept for fare credit cards, ATM cards, cell phones, and transit SMART cards that would be plastic cards that are refillable each month and that could be done online. Best wishes, Michael E. Bailey.
