Given that the city’s priority should be reducing greenhouse emissions, the guiding principle for transportation should be to reduce traffic. We need an overall strategy and goals for a meaningful reduction in vehicle-miles-travelled per household.

We must figure out how to adequately fund maintenance of our streets and sidewalks. This is going to be come even more challenging if federal funding reduces available state funding for road repair.

As we repair our roads, we should not simply be re-paving the roads exactly as they are designed. There are well-known, tested strategies for calming traffic on our largely residential streets. We should implement those strategies in a thoughtful, planned way.