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Senate committee weighs adding vehicle‑miles‑traveled goals to S.75; AOT urges 'strive to' language
Summary
Sponsors want sections of S.75 to add vehicle miles traveled (VMT) definitions and reduction goals to state transportation planning. Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT) supports definition language but warned a binding VMT requirement could block necessary bridge and highway work and asked to soften the directive to a 'strive to' standard.
Senate Transportation Committee members reviewed sections 12–15 of S.75, a transportation omnibus bill also called the Kurtz bill, which would add a statutory definition of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and require that state planning and project decisions consider reductions in VMT.
The measure's sponsor said the changes are intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and single‑occupancy driving. The Vermont Agency of Transportation told the committee it supports…
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