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California releases draft Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure to align investment with climate, equity and resilience goals
Summary
CalSTA released the draft Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI), a framework of seven strategies and roughly 30 actions to steer $5 billion in discretionary transportation spending toward lower emissions, resilience and equity; agencies will accept written comments through May 4 and aim to finalize the plan by July 15, 2021.
California officials on Wednesday released the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI), a statewide framework that aims to align transportation programming and discretionary spending with the state’s climate, equity and resilience goals.
Secretary David Kim said the plan responds to the "climate crisis" and noted that "more than 50% of California's greenhouse gas emissions comes from the transportation sector," placing the transportation system at the center of the state's strategy to reduce emissions. Kim highlighted recent climate damage to Highway 1 as evidence of rising physical risks and said that vehicle technologies alone will not meet the state's targets; policies to encourage mode shift and reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) are also needed.
Darwin, the agency presenter for the draft, described CAPTI as a planning and programming framework developed over roughly 18 months by multiple state agencies. The plan identifies seven strategy areas and "approximately 30 actions"…
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