“Reduce the Need for Personal Vehicles”: Top Massachusetts Democrat Wants to Limit How Many Miles Residents Can Drive or Drive at All, Because ‘Climate Change’
Gateway Pundit ^ | May 25th 2025 | Kristinn Taylor
Posted on 05/25/2025 2:24:17 PM PDT by Jacquerie
Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Stone Creem (D) introduced a bill this year to create a commission with the goal of reducing the number of miles driven by residents in their cars because of ‘climate change’, with an ultimate goal to “reduce the need for personal vehicles.”
The 82-year-old Creem wants the state government to promulgate regulations that could fine residents for driving too much and force them into riding public transportation, using bikes paths and walking.
Excerpt from Bill S. 2246:
Section 81. (a) To relieve traffic congestion, improve air quality, and promote compliance with the greenhouse gas emissions limits established pursuant to chapter 21N, the secretary shall, in consultation with the secretary of economic development, the secretary of energy and environmental affairs, and the secretary of housing and livable communities, set a statewide vehicle miles traveled reduction goal for the year 2030 and for every fifth year thereafter. The vehicle miles traveled reduction goals shall be incorporated into: (i) the greenhouse gas emissions sublimits for the transportation sector set pursuant to subsection (b) of section 3A of chapter 21N; and (ii) the roadmap plans published pursuant to subsection (b) of section 3 of said chapter 21N.
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The council shall assess and report on strategies and plans necessary to reduce statewide vehicles miles traveled through the establishment of an equitable, interconnected, accessible and reliable network of non-personal vehicle transportation options and through land use policies that reduce the need for personal vehicles.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Local News; Travel
KEYWORDS: freedom; government; ma; massachusetts; travel; tyranny
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Mass was the cradle of the American Revolution.
WTF happened?
1 posted on 05/25/2025 2:24:17 PM PDT by Jacquerie
To: Jacquerie
2 posted on 05/25/2025 2:26:37 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
To: Jacquerie
Somebody tell this turkey Pappy Francis is dead and so is his fake doctrine called Climate Change .... bunch of control freaks.
3 posted on 05/25/2025 2:27:57 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
To: Jacquerie
I don’t even drive anymore (right now) because of a bad foot, but this speculation makes me mad. That’s how it starts, creeping control of every move you make, every breath you take!!
4 posted on 05/25/2025 2:29:03 PM PDT by lee martell
To: Jacquerie
Dementia patient in Mass. State House.
5 posted on 05/25/2025 2:29:29 PM PDT by wetgundog
To: Jacquerie
Sounds like she wants a 15-minute City
6 posted on 05/25/2025 2:31:13 PM PDT by roving
To: Jacquerie
Doesn’t like being in Office ,LOL
7 posted on 05/25/2025 2:31:14 PM PDT by butlerweave
To: Jacquerie
It’s just a ruse. The commission, set up under the bill, will report that MA needs to build a soft rail system to reduce car miles. A public project is worth billions of graft in Boston. Sneaky old goat.
8 posted on 05/25/2025 2:31:51 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul (quan)
To: Jacquerie
and rickshaws
dont forget rickshaws
what about horses and donkeys?
9 posted on 05/25/2025 2:32:58 PM PDT by joshua c
To: Jacquerie
Reduce his supply of gainful employment at the next opportunity....
10 posted on 05/25/2025 2:32:58 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher )
To: Jacquerie
Reduce the need for government.
11 posted on 05/25/2025 2:33:37 PM PDT by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
To: Jacquerie
I like it.
I love it when crazy Dems do things to the crazy Dems that elected them.
Crazy Dems all love it up the rear.
12 posted on 05/25/2025 2:33:42 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
To: Jacquerie
This would be an unconstitutional infringement on the people's first amendment right to peaceful assembly and free association.
One can't assemble with others if one can't travel to the meeting place.
-PJ
13 posted on 05/25/2025 2:33:46 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: DeplorablePaul
they want their own high speed rail to nowhere
14 posted on 05/25/2025 2:33:56 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
To: clee1
And next they will demand that you don’t need as much oxygen as you are currently using and will determine a way to make you stop. Don’t laugh. Laughing causes you to use more oxygen. These folks are seriously demented but their constituents voted for them.
15 posted on 05/25/2025 2:34:08 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
To: Jacquerie
Doesn’t like Tax Dollars either ,LOL
16 posted on 05/25/2025 2:34:44 PM PDT by butlerweave
To: Jacquerie
and then they will tax our feet
cuz of the loss of gas tax revenue
17 posted on 05/25/2025 2:35:00 PM PDT by joshua c
To: Jacquerie
How about we pass a bill to tell these little tyrants to shut up because I’ll do whatever I damn well please?
These people think somebody died and made them emperor. It’s well past time to show them just how much power they really have.
To: Jacquerie
The sneaky rodents want to reduce our ability to travel so we can’t escape from their gulag. In commiefornia they tried to levee an exit tax to stop the outflow. The soviets had the Berlin Wall.
19 posted on 05/25/2025 2:37:49 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
To: joshua c
****what about horses and donkeys?****
Too much manure to clean up! That is one reason cities took to the automobile 125 years ago.
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