Everyone has been stuck in the bumper-to-bumper traffic between Spartanburg and Greenville. This not only causes inconvenience but also increases urban climate pollution and restricts access to essential resources. We must also ensure that disasters like Hurricane Helene and snow storms don’t cripple our cities and counties in the future.

• Increasing federal funding to invest in public transit and infrastructure for city bus riders, pedestrians, and cyclists as alternatives to driving to decrease traffic congestion. 

• Expand Public Transit Coverage to underserved areas by partnering with employers and schools in these areas to promote new routes connecting more residents to jobs, schools, and medical care.

• Invest in flood resilience and stormwater upgrades to protect homes and farmland.

• Promote employer transit benefit programs to help reduce commuting costs.

• Require for-profit power companies to invest a percentage of their profits into improving the power grid for customers.

• Introduce a moratorium on building new AI data centers, and pass legislation to require operating centers to pay fully for their environmental impact to the community, cost to the power grid, and for any new infrastructure needed to power them.