GREEN Streets Act

This bill would add reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving the resilience of roads to the national goals for federal highway programs. It would direct the U.S. Department of Transportation to set minimum standards for states on cutting per capita vehicle miles traveled, improving road resilience, and reducing road greenhouse gas emissions toward net-zero. States that miss their targets would have to spend set shares of certain federal highway funds on listed projects such as transit, active transportation, and land use projects. Planning agencies would have to study the emissions and travel effects of projects that add road capacity and show that new car lanes are more cost effective than alternatives. Large metro areas and their states would also have to set and report on transit access targets.

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Sponsors

• Edward J. Markey Democrat sponsor
• 4 cosponsors