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Green Now and for the Future

The Transportation Investment Plan will:  
   
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 Preserve natural habitat
 
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 Set aside valuable agricultural lands
 
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 Foster partnerships with environmental agencies
 
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 Support alternative transportation
   
 
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Preservation of Habitat
 
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 All projects in the plan are carefully designed to preserve sensitive habitat.
 
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 If impacts are unavoidable, meaningful habitat will be preserved elsewhere.
 
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 No major bypass project is funded for construction in the plan.
   
   
   
   
   
 
Valuable Agricultural Lands  
Salinas feilds
Each project avoids agricultural lands to the extent possible:
 
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 The highway projects are designed to minimize impacts on agricultural land.
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 Other projects set aside replacements land in productive, usable areas, when nearby agricultural land is affected.
 
 
 
   
  Partnerships
The Transportation Agency is working with these environmental agencies to set aside meaningful habitat as a migration for transportation projects and fund trail projects:
 
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 The Big Sur Land Trust
 
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 Coastal Conservancy
 
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 California State Parks
 
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 The Elkhorn Slough Foundation
   
   
Alternative Transportation Promoting alternative transportation
The Transportation Investement Plan supports alternative transportation by:
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 Increasing funding for public transit
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 Bring in passenger rail to Monterey County
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 Supporting bicycle and pedestrian access.
 
 
 
 
 

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