R.I.’s carbon reduction plan is due in two months. Will there be time for public input?

Where’s the plan?

That’s the question climate and transit advocates are posing to the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) as it nears a Nov. 15 deadline to submit its carbon reduction plan (CRP) to the federal government.

In a five-page letter dated Sept. 19 to RIDOT Director Peter Alviti, the group of 23 organizations spearheaded by Acadia Center Program Director Emily Koo ask that the public have a chance to provide their input on the best ways to lower emissions from vehicles.

“With less than two months remaining, we as climate advocates are concerned by the absence of [a] public process surrounding a document with such significant implications for how transportation projects will be analyzed and funded in the years and decades to come,” they wrote.

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