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Welcome
The Sierra Club supports transportation policy and systems that:
• minimize the impacts on and use of land, airspace and waterways, minimize
the consumption of limited resources, including fuel, and reduce pollutant and
noise emissions;
• provide everyone, including pedestrians, bicyclists and transit users,
with adequate access to jobs, shopping, services and recreation;
• provide adequate and efficient goods movement and substitute local goods
for those requiring long distance movement, where feasible;
• encourage land uses that minimize travel requirements;
• strengthen local communities, towns and urban centers, and promote equal
opportunity;
• eliminate transportation subsidies which handicap achievement of the
above goals; and ensure vigorous and effective public participation in transportation
planning.
Adopted by the Board of Directors, February 19-20, 1994; amended May 7-8,
1994
Click for the full text of the Transportation
Committee's policy statement.
The Executive
Committee of the Rocky Mountain Chapter, Sierra Club, has adopted ( February
10, 2005) a formal position regarding the Alternatives under consideration in
the PEIS as follows:
1. Regarding
the Preferred Alternative: we adopt the position of the current consensus in the
Corridor:
- Fixed
Guideway Transit System, using a rail technology and not bus fixed guideway
- No
six-lane highway improvements; utilize selected highway improvements only
- Enhanced
Bus Operations to supplement Fixed Guideway Transit System
- Intermodal
Transfer Centers
- Travel
Demand Management
- Travel
System Management
- Enhanced
Air Service
- Consider
Alternate Routes outside of the Highway Right-of-way as appropriate.
2. Regarding
the non-CDOT Train Alternative: we encourage and support the development of a
planning study to examine the feasibility such alternative.
3.
We urge CDOT to utilize environmental criteria in the final screening
and analysis instead of only capital cost.
Full environmental costs must be included.
If, in the Hearings or during the Comment period, there are any public
comments regarding the inadequacy of environmental findings, the Final PEIS
should not be issued until the public has a chance to review the reactions and
further re-studies of such concerns.
4.
The PEIS process has not identified a "vision" of what
the mountains will be for future generations. How much mountain sprawl do
we want? How much pavement do we want? How many parking lots do
we want? These issues need to be resolved before any irreversible highway
construction is approved, and these cannot be deferred to Tier II studies.
For Sierra Club Rocky Mountain
Chapter formal comments on the I-70 Mountain Corridor Draft Programmatic Environmental
Impact Statement (Draft PEIS sent on May 24, 2005, to CDOT and the Federal Highway
Administration) see Sierra
Final Comment on Draft PEIS w-appendices 5-24-05.doc
For NEPA Environmental Quality
Improvement Act language re purpose of an Environmental Impact Statemen see
CEQ - Regulation 1502.htm
Read Diane Carmen's article,
I-70 ideas going nowhere fast
For more information about
the efforts of the communities and organizations working on the campaign to
protect this corridor, visit these websites:
http://www.i70mountaintransit.org/
http://www.trainsnotlanes.info/index.html
http://www.rangerxpress.com/default.htm
http://www.transolutions.org/about/
http://www.i-70coalition.org
http://www.colorail.org
http://www.comobility.org
Visit these websites
for more information about public transportation and traffic pollution:
Sierra Club, www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/transportation/
American Lung
Association, www.lungusa.org/air/
American Public Transportation
Association, www.apta.com
Denver FasTracks, www.rtd-denver.com/fastracks
Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, www.epa.gov/otaq/
Federal Bureau of Transportation
Statistics, www.bts.gov/
Light Rail Now! www.lightrailnow.org
New Mexico Rail Runner Express, www.nmrailrunner.com
Surface
Transportation Policy Project, www.transact.org/
Transit Alliance,
www.transitalliance.org/
Transportation Solutions, www.transolutions.org
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