Comments on: Threats to Transit in a Warming World: Heat, Floods, Hurricanes http://blog.tstc.org/2008/03/14/new-report-examines-climate-change-impacts-on-us-transportation-systems/ News and opinion from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:36:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Drivers Finally Responding to Rising Gas Prices? « Mobilizing the Region http://blog.tstc.org/2008/03/14/new-report-examines-climate-change-impacts-on-us-transportation-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Drivers Finally Responding to Rising Gas Prices? « Mobilizing the Region Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:02:42 +0000 http://mobilizingtheregion.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-308 [...] trends is that auto-centric planning is becoming increasingly irrelevant to economic realities. As transit agencies must adapt to a potential age of climate change and peak oil, so too must planners. Not doing so [...] [...] trends is that auto-centric planning is becoming increasingly irrelevant to economic realities. As transit agencies must adapt to a potential age of climate change and peak oil, so too must planners. Not doing so [...]

]]> By: James Greller http://blog.tstc.org/2008/03/14/new-report-examines-climate-change-impacts-on-us-transportation-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-306 James Greller Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:37:21 +0000 http://mobilizingtheregion.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-306 While we have been for spending money to build a waterside walk way perhaps waht we should be building is a sea wall with this money. Cities all along the Ohio River have them, and a number of years ago a flood shut down Hoboken service and PATH in Jersey City. While we have been for spending money to build a waterside walk way perhaps waht we should be building is a sea wall with this money. Cities all along the Ohio River have them, and a number of years ago a flood shut down Hoboken service and PATH in Jersey City.

]]> By: Martin Robins http://blog.tstc.org/2008/03/14/new-report-examines-climate-change-impacts-on-us-transportation-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Martin Robins Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:46:08 +0000 http://mobilizingtheregion.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-307 Michele -- Thanks for publishing this note. This report is alarming on several levels. Some of New Jersey's most important infrastructure is located adjacent to the Hudson River (Hoboken complex, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Line). Flooding has decimated the Hoboken complex before. Have NJ TRANSIT and PATH acknowledged these threats? Are they studying what to do about them? TSTC should follow up. As for highway flooding, this is becoming a a more widespread problem in NJ, and NJDOT staff recognizes this. The staff has compiled a program for flooding relief and attached a capital cost to it. A key question is whether that program could be carried out to any reasonable extent even if the Transportation Trust Fund is rescued, as Governor Corzine foresees it. Is the Trust Fund rescue package sufficient for these important public safety and congestion relief purposes? This is part of a larger question of sufficiency. Please share this second note with Zoe. Thanks. MER Michele — Thanks for publishing this note. This report is alarming on several levels. Some of New Jersey’s most important infrastructure is located adjacent to the Hudson River (Hoboken complex, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Line). Flooding has decimated the Hoboken complex before. Have NJ TRANSIT and PATH acknowledged these threats? Are they studying what to do about them? TSTC should follow up.

As for highway flooding, this is becoming a a more widespread problem in NJ, and NJDOT staff recognizes this. The staff has compiled a program for flooding relief and attached a capital cost to it. A key question is whether that program could be carried out to any reasonable extent even if the Transportation Trust Fund is rescued, as Governor Corzine foresees it. Is the Trust Fund rescue package sufficient for these important public safety and congestion relief purposes? This is part of a larger question of sufficiency. Please share this second note with Zoe. Thanks.

MER

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