sustainability in brooklyn: public transportation
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Sustainability in Brooklyn
Public Transportation
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• the Center for American Progress foundthat the bill contains at least $62.2 billionin direct spending on green initiatives and$20 billion in green tax incentives, whilefunding for nuclear and coal projects wasdropped from the final version.
• Here's the breakdown:
Congressional leaders signed offon a final economic stimulus
package that includes transit,infrastructure and alternative
energy spending.
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Energy transmission andalternative energy research
• $11 billion for smart grid• $7.5 billion for renewable energy and
transmission-line construction• $400 million for the Department of Energy's
Advanced Research Project Agency forEnergy for the development of alternativeenergy sources and efficiency
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Efficiency
• $4.5 billion for energy-efficiencyimprovements to federal buildings
• $6.3 billion for local government energy-efficiency grants
• $2.25 billion for energy-efficiency retrofitsfor low-income housing
• $2.25 billion for the HOME InvestmentPartners Program to retrofit communitylow-income housing
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Efficiency…continued• $5 billion for the Weatherization Assistance
Program for efficiency in low-income households• $510 million for energy-efficiency retrofits for
Native American housing programs• $420 million for energy-efficiency improvements
at the Department of Defense• $300 million for Department of Defense research
on energy efficiency at military installations• $300 million for the appliance rebate program for
Energy Star products
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Mass transit and advancedautomobiles
• $8.4 billion for transit capital assistanceprograms
• $8 billion for Amtrak and intercitypassenger rail
• $300 million for the purchase of morealternative-fuel and hybrid vehicles for thefederal fleet
• $300 million in grants and loans fortechnologies that reduce diesel emissions
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Green jobs training:
• $500 million for green jobs programsthrough the Workforce Investment Act
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Each day the MTA removes 3million potential drivers from the
roads, eliminating as much asmuch CO2 as 684,444 acres of
forest, that’s a forest 15 times thesize of Brooklyn.
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Population & Means ofTransportation
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% Used PublicTransportation
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Subway: Monthly Ridership
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Bus: Monthly Ridership
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Subway: Annual Ridership
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Bus: Annual Ridership
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Household Income
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Median HouseholdIncome
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Energy Consumption by Sector
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Energy Consumption per Capita
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Energy Consumption per Capitaby State
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Transportation EnergyConsumption (Trillion Btu)
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New York & U.S. Motor-Fuel Use(Millions of Gallons)
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions fromDifferent Transportation
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Things left to find out:
• # of cars registered in bk• %inflation of mta fare vs average income• How much money gov. puts into mta• Map of new bus routes• Energy-transportation sustainability
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Some Sources:• http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-
bin/popInfo.php?locIndex=286• http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104652.html• www.socialexplorer.com• http://www.mta.info/index.html• http://www.rita.dot.gov/• http://www.plannyc.org/neighborhood_search#• http://www.apta.com/research/info/online/land
_use.cfm• http://www.mta.info/nyct/facts/ffenvironment.ht
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