Sustainability in Brooklyn

Public Transportation

• the Center for American Progress foundthat the bill contains at least $62.2 billionin direct spending on green initiatives and$20 billion in green tax incentives, whilefunding for nuclear and coal projects wasdropped from the final version.

• Here's the breakdown:

Congressional leaders signed offon a final economic stimulus

package that includes transit,infrastructure and alternative

energy spending.

Energy transmission andalternative energy research

• $11 billion for smart grid• $7.5 billion for renewable energy and

transmission-line construction• $400 million for the Department of Energy's

Advanced Research Project Agency forEnergy for the development of alternativeenergy sources and efficiency

Efficiency

• $4.5 billion for energy-efficiencyimprovements to federal buildings

• $6.3 billion for local government energy-efficiency grants

• $2.25 billion for energy-efficiency retrofitsfor low-income housing

• $2.25 billion for the HOME InvestmentPartners Program to retrofit communitylow-income housing

Efficiency…continued• $5 billion for the Weatherization Assistance

Program for efficiency in low-income households• $510 million for energy-efficiency retrofits for

Native American housing programs• $420 million for energy-efficiency improvements

at the Department of Defense• $300 million for Department of Defense research

on energy efficiency at military installations• $300 million for the appliance rebate program for

Energy Star products

Mass transit and advancedautomobiles

• $8.4 billion for transit capital assistanceprograms

• $8 billion for Amtrak and intercitypassenger rail

• $300 million for the purchase of morealternative-fuel and hybrid vehicles for thefederal fleet

• $300 million in grants and loans fortechnologies that reduce diesel emissions

Green jobs training:

• $500 million for green jobs programsthrough the Workforce Investment Act

Each day the MTA removes 3million potential drivers from the

roads, eliminating as much asmuch CO2 as 684,444 acres of

forest, that’s a forest 15 times thesize of Brooklyn.

Population & Means ofTransportation

% Used PublicTransportation

Subway: Monthly Ridership

Bus: Monthly Ridership

Subway: Annual Ridership

Bus: Annual Ridership

Household Income

Median HouseholdIncome

Energy Consumption by Sector

Energy Consumption per Capita

Energy Consumption per Capitaby State

Transportation EnergyConsumption (Trillion Btu)

New York & U.S. Motor-Fuel Use(Millions of Gallons)

Carbon Dioxide Emissions fromDifferent Transportation

Things left to find out:

• # of cars registered in bk• %inflation of mta fare vs average income• How much money gov. puts into mta• Map of new bus routes• Energy-transportation sustainability

Some Sources:• http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-

bin/popInfo.php?locIndex=286• http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104652.html• www.socialexplorer.com• http://www.mta.info/index.html• http://www.rita.dot.gov/• http://www.plannyc.org/neighborhood_search#• http://www.apta.com/research/info/online/land

_use.cfm• http://www.mta.info/nyct/facts/ffenvironment.ht

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