Senator Brownsberger served on the legislature’s Special Commission on Bail Reform, which recently released its findings, covered here.
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Hands Free At Last
Under the new law, you can talk to your cell phone, but you cannot touch or even look at it while driving, except in true emergency.
Raising our rate of transit investment
Using public private partnerships, Toronto has achieved a stunning rate of investment in all forms of transit improvement and expansion.
Uber and Lyft at Logan
Logan is a special case, but we are facing unacceptable congestion across the region and the fundamental problem is single-rider vehicle use. Right now, Uber and Lyft are part of the problem. However, they can be part of the solution.
Electrifying public transportation
If we could electrify most vehicles and then make all power sources on the grid carbon neutral, we would make the transportation sector (airplanes aside) carbon neutral and much cleaner. How soon could that happen?
The risk we weren’t talking about
Until recently, no one was talking about what storm surge could do to the Charles River and Amelia Earhart dams themselves.