Garrett WollmanHmmm. Interesting to compare the March #MBTA board "decarbonization" presentation with the much more extensive one from the prior week's safety, health, environment committee meeting. The full board version drops all mention of commuter rail, which is 47% of the MBTA's carbon emissions, and also omits discussion of the diesel heater issue. cc @scribblesonnapkins
Evan@wollman I don't have the capacity to watch the non-board meetings but it sounds like I should go back and watch that one. Have I missed any others you think are relevant?
@scribblesonnapkins I haven't watched the meetings (yet), just digging through the presentations. The slide that Chris Friend posted that generated all that energy a few weeks ago was from the SHE committee preso, it's not in the main board version. That's what got me looking for differences. Planning to make a more pointed statement at the April 30 meeting in person, pending my evaluation of what's actually in the CIP.
@wollman Ok makes sense. I am trying to push Eng to do a pilot of IMC trolley bus in Belmont where the wires were redone in 2017. It's right to change the law to remove the deadline or make it 70% electric buses but they should at least try the one technology that actually worked.
In the full board meeting they out loud acknowledged that the BEB weren't working and that en-route charging pilots were not doing well.
After years of begin gas light it made me angry how causally they went 180.
