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emurray
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 5:39pm \| IP Logged

Welcome, teleconference participants, to this pre-program discussion forum for the December 3, 2008 CTE National Broadcast on "Transportation and Climate Change: Time to Think, Plan, Mitigate, and Adapt."

We encourage your participation in this important program and invite you to join the discussion. Use the "Post Reply" window below to submit your questions and comments for consideration by the panelists.

You may also email questions to cte_email@ncsu.edu. Thank you for participating!

Edited by emurray on 25 November 2008 at 12:56pm

Jane Winn
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Joined: 22 February 2005
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Posted: 20 November 2008 at 11:08am \| IP Logged

There was very little in the Primer on Transportation and Climate Change
that really addressed "adaptation". We need to immediately consider ways
to prepare our infrastructure for larger, flashier storms. We also need to
immediately consider ways to help wildlife and ecosystems cope by
making our transportation network more "permeable" - that is having
ways that wildlife can easily cross under or over roads. The first step is to
have larger, open bottomed or embedded culverts that decrease the
impact of roads on the ecosystems they cross. By allowing water courses
to flow naturally, by having the crossing structure go over not only the
river or stream but also over the bank on either side allowing terrestrial
wildlife passage, that also allows for flooding without destroying the
road. Every major road repair is an opportunity to decrease that road's
impact on the surrounding ecosystem and improve the ecosystem's
resilience to climate change.

Tom Crawford
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Posted: 03 December 2008 at 12:36pm \| IP Logged

Scientific evidence about climate change indicates that we need to reduce the US's CO2 emiissions to 25% below 1990 levels by 2020-2025, and to 80% below those levels by 2050. What strategies can DOT's adopt, or can the US DOT take on, to most effectively help us get there?

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