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“Reduce the Need for Personal Vehicles”: Top Massachusetts Democrat Wants to Limit How Many Miles Residents Can Drive or Drive at All, Because ‘Climate Change’
Gateway Pundit ^ | May 25th 2025 | Kristinn Taylor

Posted on 05/25/2025 2:24:17 PM PDT by Jacquerie

Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Stone Creem (D) introduced a bill this year to create a commission with the goal of reducing the number of miles driven by residents in their cars because of ‘climate change’, with an ultimate goal to “reduce the need for personal vehicles.”

The 82-year-old Creem wants the state government to promulgate regulations that could fine residents for driving too much and force them into riding public transportation, using bikes paths and walking.

Excerpt from Bill S. 2246:

Section 81. (a) To relieve traffic congestion, improve air quality, and promote compliance with the greenhouse gas emissions limits established pursuant to chapter 21N, the secretary shall, in consultation with the secretary of economic development, the secretary of energy and environmental affairs, and the secretary of housing and livable communities, set a statewide vehicle miles traveled reduction goal for the year 2030 and for every fifth year thereafter. The vehicle miles traveled reduction goals shall be incorporated into: (i) the greenhouse gas emissions sublimits for the transportation sector set pursuant to subsection (b) of section 3A of chapter 21N; and (ii) the roadmap plans published pursuant to subsection (b) of section 3 of said chapter 21N.

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The council shall assess and report on strategies and plans necessary to reduce statewide vehicles miles traveled through the establishment of an equitable, interconnected, accessible and reliable network of non-personal vehicle transportation options and through land use policies that reduce the need for personal vehicles.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Local News; Travel
KEYWORDS: freedom; government; ma; massachusetts; travel; tyranny
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To: Jacquerie

Watch what happens when it is enforced in the winter. You’ll have another revolution.


81 posted on 05/25/2025 5:36:43 PM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Jacquerie

I’d love to see 82 yr old Sen. Creem biking to work down Boylston St on a cold January morning...


82 posted on 05/25/2025 5:37:33 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Jacquerie

The Bolshevik Red Guards are at it again


83 posted on 05/25/2025 5:48:48 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don’t really care, Margaret.”)
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To: Jacquerie

Tell her to stay the hell out of Texas..


84 posted on 05/25/2025 6:02:18 PM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: Paladin2

Ironside drove that ugly Ford van with them in a few episodes.


85 posted on 05/25/2025 6:07:15 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: Jacquerie

She and I are the same age but it looks like she rides the bus to a beauty salon on a frequent basis. At her age, she likely does not drive much these days. I used to drive 25,000 miles a year, and my wife drove around 7,000. Now, we both are retired, we gave up one car and are down to only one car. Our combined mileage last year was all of 3,000. Old people simply do not have to drive much, and that idiot is an old woman who needs to be retired from the MA legislature.


86 posted on 05/25/2025 6:20:28 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: Jacquerie

Shut off the old bag’s natural gas line for a couple of weeks in the winter.


87 posted on 05/25/2025 7:24:30 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Jacquerie

The 82-year-old Creem wants the state...

To regulate the lives of the living while she passes into the eternities. How kind and generous of the old gal.


88 posted on 05/25/2025 8:13:45 PM PDT by wita (Under oath since May 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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To: lee martell

Don’t forget they tax you for the privilege of control.


89 posted on 05/25/2025 8:15:40 PM PDT by wita (Under oath since May 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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To: dragnet2

I swear that photo looks like every HOA leadership, two Karens who would give Adolph a run for his money when it comes to controlling the little people (which is everyone but them).


90 posted on 05/25/2025 9:42:44 PM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: Jacquerie

@cindycreem
I think Blue States and cities should refuse to issue driver licenses and refuse to honor other licenses - in 5 years, they will be empty ruins and the rest of us can get on with our lives...


91 posted on 05/26/2025 5:29:35 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Jacquerie

It’s 196 miles to my nearest Amtrak station...


92 posted on 05/26/2025 5:38:01 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: ChuckHam

“The NE states were full of British loyalists and their descendants carry on the tradition of wanting to be ruled. That’s what happened and is happening.”

No. Maybe 10% tops in New England. That’s why the British left and tried NY, Philadelphia, and later the southern colonies. There were more loyalists in those areas.


93 posted on 05/26/2025 7:36:32 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: TonyM

94 posted on 05/26/2025 3:46:24 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Bob434

They had one with the “big dig” unfortunately it actually finished. No more cost overruns 😢😢


95 posted on 05/26/2025 5:00:07 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: rxh4n1

I lumped them all in with NY and Philly. Those suckers spread out over the following decades like crazy in the NE. After all they are right next the each other.


96 posted on 05/26/2025 5:17:51 PM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: from occupied ga

That was truly massive- they did a special on it- wow- quite an unddrtaking and history with hte water- but yeah, it was a massive $$ project, as was the cleanign pcp’s fro mthe hudson river


97 posted on 05/26/2025 6:59:41 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: ChuckHam

“Those suckers spread out over the following decades like crazy in the NE. “

Huh? Most of them left for Canada in 1783.


98 posted on 05/26/2025 9:06:38 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Jacquerie

Freaking Luddites are among us.


99 posted on 06/09/2025 12:23:26 PM PDT by dblshot
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To: Jacquerie

Property value will plummet as people get out of the state.


100 posted on 06/09/2025 12:31:58 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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