Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's new advisers hope to bring diversity, equity and inclusion to America's infrastructure.
And they have a message for America's 233 million licensed drivers.
The Department of Transportation (DOT) recently made transportation equity a strategic, department-wide goal. According to a new report in The Washington Free Beacon, several of Buttigieg's “leading experts” have argued that carbon dioxide-emitting cars promote racism and need to go the way of the dinosaurs:
Buttigieg earlier this month appointed 24 new members to his Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity, an Obama-era body that Buttigieg is reviving after the Trump administration scrapped it. Included on the committee is Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, a “spatial policy scholar” who says “ALL CARS ARE BAD” given that they cause “a myriad of environmental issues and conditions.” Another Buttigieg appointee, self-described “transportation nerd” Veronica Davis, argued in an August essay that cars perpetuate “systemic racism” and are therefore “the problem” in America's transportation system.
Buttigieg's appointments—and his decision to revive the equity advisory committee—reflect the Biden administration's whole-of-government emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion. President Joe Biden shortly after taking office in 2021 issued an executive order that called on federal agencies to “pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all.” Under the order, agency heads must conduct an “equity assessment” to identify policies that create “systemic barriers” in minority communities.
The committee will advise Buttigieg on “promising practices to institutionalize equity into agency programs, policies, regulations, and activities” and plans to meet for the first time this fall, according to Buttigieg's August announcement. Marpillero-Colomina told the Washington Free Beacon that she is not “advocating for a complete erasure” of cars but intends to push Buttigieg to move America away from its reliance on private motor vehicles.
“My interest in being on the [equity committee] is to raise the question and push the Department of Transportation to really think about: What are some equitable, environmentally sustainable, economically beneficial, and feasible alternatives to policy that is car-centric?” she said in an interview. “How can we reimagine streets to prioritize people instead of cars? How can we create streets that are inclusive of modes other than cars?”
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LMAO , these commie A holes will do and say anything to get more control over the American people.
They are all ignorant as to what the American people want and it’s not EV vehicles that blow up if the batteries are infiltrated by salt water. Bill
Mayor Pete is performing the job he was appointed by Biden to do–to push the Democrats’ leftist agenda. Just another example of why all Democrats at all levels of government must be defeated in 2024 or the middle class will be gutted.
RH – the middle class has already been pretty well gutted (or maybe neutered?). We ‘might’ be able to survive if the defeat takes place.
DOT appears to advocate for “taking the bus”… I wonder, is that the bus that leaves once a week from the senior center to the grocery store? Or the one that leaves the church and goes to the mall once a month? Considering that I live 12 miles from the nearest convenience store, and 17 miles from the closest grocery store, I also wonder how I am to get TO the “bus stop”, and how I am to carry the multiple bags of groceries home? How am I supposed to carry an 8 foot 2×4 or a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood home?
Me thinks they need to rethink some stuff…
Read my above comment. The eventual solution is everybody MUST live in the city. Think ANTHILL. That is the idea. Ever hear of the 15 – minute City?
It’s time we get off our lazy butts, stand up and fight for our Nation. Stop these pompous elite, better than thou idiots from destroying everything we have worked.
They jump in their jets and limousines burning fuels un-necessarily, denying us the fuel we need to go to work and do our daily chores.
These are people that were elected to abide by our Constitution, working (supposedly) as our employees to better our nation and lives.
I was Controller of our local Bus Transportation System for 18 years (held another position in the same company the other 10 years, total 28 years with local transportation (bus) system. I do believe bus transportation is necessary for those who don’t own cars, don’t drive, are disabled, a quick trip, or just like the convenience of traveling to work without paying for parking. Having said this, I do not advocate public transportation as a replacement for cars. This is absolutely ridiculous. Mayor Pete (mayor of a city within the state I live) is not qualified for scheduling pot hole repairs lets along Transportation Secretary for the whole country.
Left unsaid for NOW — is that buses and commuter trains are racially INCLUSIVE. Also bicycles and your feet. The goal is, no more cars, no more privately owned homes. In fact, no single family homes. Eventually, we get rid of the suburbs and depopulate rural areas. Everybody has to come live in city apartments.
that may not be possible if they ‘reimagine’ streets to be ‘more inclusive’. . .
:Kate: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Something has to be done about the Sec of Transportation. The guy is a failed Mayor and now is trying to be a failed Secretary. His thinking is crazy. Cars are the life blood of people and their preferred means of transportation. He should be facilitating them not trying to discourage them.
Charles: said the idiot, who claims to have invented the internet ha ha ha ha ha / Alvinvanovichkie, the slob, Gore so I didn’t get his first? name right – who cares.
It never occurred to me streets weren’t “inclusive.” When grew up in a city, I took the bus, walked, biked and eventually drove vehicles. As an adult, I have walked, run, and cycled on roads all over the USA with never a problem. As an old man living in a housing area without sidewalks, I’ve walked, walked our dogs, run, and cycled without a hint of being excluded from the roads. But then I’m white and respect the vehicle drivers with whom I share the road.
in most places the streets are black. . .perhaps if they were ‘lighter’ that might impact ‘climate change’. . .
Equity, diversity and inclusion = WOKE far Left communism.
I’ve wondered why the acronym isn’t based on Diversity and Inclusion creates Equity = DIE.
Still waiting for Pete to disclose all his private airline flights. I’d really like to know how they promote DEI !
Wow, you just can’t make this stuff up. Buttiege is a demonic reprobate following the doctrines of demons.
pssssst–you could make cars less expensive. . .that would inclusively make everyone happy. . .
Kate: there are cars over in Europe that get over 100 miles per gallon. Think they’ll ever be introduced to the USA????? again ha ha ha ha ha
It’s it’s not about electric vehicles it’s now about eliminating private vehicle ownership and eliminating travel to public gatherings to challenge the Nazi Leftist intent on eliminating freedom and the Constitution and the bill of rights
Did they even attempt to concoct an explanation as to HOW cars perpetuate racism, or did they just throw that ridiculous statement against the wall hoping it would stick because it contains the word “racism?”
Lemme give it a try:
The open border causes RACISM! Close it!
Impeach Biden! He perpetuates RACISM!
Ditch CRT! It ENCOURAGES RACISM!
Buttgig and his clown friends have zero concept of reality when it comes to carbon emissions.
I have a message for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his new advisers.
Unfortunately, none of it’s fit to be printed in a public comment section.
They have had the Grey Hound bus running on I-5 since Franklin Delano Roosevelt CCC put in the bridges at Newport Waldport Florence. You now have to get someone to drive you to Corvallis to catch the bus going north and south. Hey Bittjig you forking faggot this is 2023 not 1933.
Best way to start a civil war I’ve seen so far. Buthole is a moron who was indoctrinated from an early age in communism by his father and all of his father’s heroes and buddies. Just another commie that Biden has put in charge and needs removed by any means possible. Of course the easy way is to get rid of Biden and then these morons will disappear too. This country is not, Europe. This country was built on individual freedom not government controlled livery like trains and buses. This infrastructure was not even in their infrastructure bill and like everything else they are doing they intend to do away with the internal combustion engine before having anything else to take it’s place. Same thing with electrical power. Do away with fossil fuels before you have any capable replacement alternative. Do away with farmers before you have any way to feed the people. Morons who are only taunting the American people to cause a revolution against their illegitimate government. Something I’m sure the founders would support, even if they didn’t write a couple of lines in the Constitution that made it very obvious that is what would happen to a fascist executive branch like we have now. We need to make it so. Soon.