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Plan Bay Area 2040, an update to the region’s long-range transportation and land-use plan, marked a major milestone with the adoption of the Final Preferred Scenario by the MTC Commission and Association of Bay Area Governments Executive Board. The Preferred Scenario, which provides a roadmap for accommodating projected household and employment growth in the nine-county Bay Area by 2040 and also includes a regional transportation investment strategy, will now undergo an environmental assessment under the California Environmental Quality Act. Final adoption of Plan Bay Area 2040 is expected mid-2017. More
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MTC’s Bay Area Toll Oversight Committee has authorized $27.2 million to construct a third eastbound lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, as well as a barrier-separated bicycle/pedestrian path adjacent to westbound Interstate 580 from Point Richmond to Point Molate.
This is the first of three contracts for the Interstate 580 Access Improvement Project, for which $73.6 million has been budgeted. Two future contracts will extend the bicycle/pedestrian path across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge and complete connections to existing Bay Trail segments in Marin County. More
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MTC honored Freeway Service Patrol tow truck drivers Darryl Poe and Moises Reyes, and Waste Management of Alameda County driver David Garcia, for their quick response, calm under pressure, and selfless dedication to the safety of others when they teamed to save the life of a young motorist injured in an October 26 accident along Interstate 880 in Oakland. MORE
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Last month marked the 10th anniversary of the Bay Area’s Clipper electronic transit fare payment card. Named in honor of the clipper ships that revolutionized travel from the East Coast to San Francisco Bay during the Gold Rush era, the Clipper card today is accepted as fare payment by 20 public transit agencies across the Bay Area. Riders used Clipper® cards to pay fares for nearly half of all transit trips taken in the region last year – with more than 800,000 Clipper® fare payments processed each weekday. More
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All but two of the 22 local and regional transportation and housing ballot measures endorsed by the MTC Commission were approved by voters in last month’s election. Together these measures will raise billions for efforts to extend and rebuild BART, maintain AC Transit operations, improve Muni and Caltrain operations, repair roads, reduce congestion, and build affordable housing. More
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