The California Transportation Commission will soon announce projects funded by the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (SB1), focusing on road repairs, transit improvements, and safety. However, a coalition of 25 environmental organizations is urging the CTC to reject proposals aimed at increasing highway capacity and instead prioritize those that reduce car dependency. They highlight concerns about the negative impacts on climate, community displacement, and compliance with the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure. Some projects have multimodal elements that could proceed without highway expansions.
Our concerns about these projects relate to their inconsistency with the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI), their likelihood to significantly increase driving, their environmental, climate, and displacement impacts, and their conflicts with California's climate and equity goals.
The Santa Cruz Sierra Club wrote a letter supporting some multimodal components in the project that can be built without the lane expansion. These projects include 22 new traffic lights and 10 miles of protected bikeways.
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