Sierra Club Transportation meeting

Most people hop into their vehicles for destinations only six miles from their home. Imagine the environmental relief from greenhouse gas emissions and energy conservation if, instead, folks used alternative transportation modes. That’s the sort of thing we are working on at the Rochester Sierra Club.

Please consider attending a Sierra Club steering committee on Transportation at the Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester NY 14618, in the main meeting room, on Wednesday, February, 24th at 7PM. This meeting is Free and Open to all Sierra Club members and members of the public interested in our region’s transportation issues.

Much has been going on in the last year with alternative transportation in our area and we need Sierra Club members and interested parties to help us sort out the details and provide help for various projects. Instrumental to realizing many of the wonderful transportation options in our area is advocacy to pressure governments, the media, and businesses to consider the environmental (greenhouse gas emissions, green jobs, land, water, and air pollution ) components of any transportation option in the future.

We need people who know how to write, how to listen, how to make presentations, speak to groups, promote events, organize, and care about our local transportation future.

Some of the background material for the Sierra Club’s Transportation issue, you can find here: http://newyork.sierraclub.org/rochester/Transportation/Transportation.html We are considering everything from walking school buses, bicycling, bike week (May 17-21), electric cars, electric motorcycle, biodiesel, ethanol, hybrid electric, hydrogen fuel cells, bicycle boulevards, mass transit, light rail, to high-speed rail.

Frank J. Regan (FrankRegan@RocheterEnvironment.com)
Chairperson of the Rochester Sierra Club Transportation Committee

Chairperson of the Center of Environmental Information (CEI) Sustainable Alternative Transportation Committee)

Former Conservation Chairperson and Chairperson of the Rochester Sierra Club