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Introducing the Bay Area Metro Awards
The new Bay Area Metro Awards — a joint program of MTC and its sister agency, the Association of Bay Area Governments — will honor the often-unsung heroes doing the hard work to improve mobility, affordability and community vitality in the region. Nominate projects, people or programs that are making a real difference to solve the Bay Area’s housing and transportation problems by Friday, November 16. MORE
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Next-Generation Clipper® Gets Green Light
At its September monthly meeting, MTC approved a $461 million contract with Cubic Transportation Systems to design and deploy a comprehensive update to the Clipper® transit-fare payment system, which handles payment for more than 21 million bus, rail, light-rail, cable car and ferry trips operated by 22 separate Bay Area transit agencies each month. Innovations include a new mobile app that will allow customers to use their smart phones to reload their accounts and pay their fares, with instant access to recently loaded value. MORE
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Express Lane Network Expands
The Contra Costa Transportation Authority recently broke ground on a new southbound Express Lane on Interstate 680. Stretching 11 miles from Martinez to Walnut Creek, the lane will connect to MTC’s existing Express Lane between Walnut Creek and San Ramon, providing a continuous 24-mile Express Lane in Contra Costa County between Martinez and the Alameda County border. As is the case elsewhere in the region, carpools and vanpools will use the lane for free while solo drivers will pay a variable fee during prime hours. MORE
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Housing, Earthquake Bills Among Last Signed, Vetoed by Governor
Governor Brown acted on legislation for the final time on September 30, signing into law five bills that will affect housing production and zoning requirements in the Bay Area, while vetoing two seismic safety bills. MORE
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Ford GoBike Is a Model for Equitable Bike Share Access
New data show that 20 percent of Ford GoBike registrations are discounted “Bike Share for All” memberships for low-income riders, among the largest share of any bike share system in the country. MORE
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New Horizon Paper: Toward a Shared Future
MTC’s Horizon initiative is exploring how economic, environmental, technological and political uncertainties may create new challenges and opportunities for the Bay Area over the coming decades. This second perspective paper, “Toward a Shared Future: Strategies to Manage Travel Demand,” proposes eight high-impact strategies for a more mobile Bay Area. The strategies work together to achieve a vision for 2050 where transportation is based on a per-use model rather than on an ownership model, with land use policies supporting active (bicycling and walking) and multi-passenger options. MORE
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Sluggish Housing Production Tightens Bay Area’s Housing Crunch
The nine-county Bay Area’s housing stock increased by only 14,900 new units in 2017 — less than 30 percent of the 52,700 new jobs estimated to have been added in the Bay Area last year. Learn more about the region’s chronic housing crunch with new data from MTC’s Vital Signs project. MORE
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Bay Trail Openings: Hercules and Pinole
Residents, city and park district staff and officials, hikers, cyclists — and furry friends, too — gathered in mid-September along the shores of San Pablo Bay in Western Contra Costa County to celebrate two new sections of the San Francisco Bay Trail, which ultimately will encircle the entire 500 miles of the Bay’s shoreline. PHOTOS
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Groundbreaking for I-680 Express Lane
Our photographer caught the flying dirt when officials from MTC and sister agencies gathered for the groundbreaking for the new Express Lane on southbound Interstate 680. PHOTOS
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Street Stories: Local Governments Battle Road Repair Backlog
Thanks to the passage of Senate Bill 1 in 2017, repaving projects and repairs are in the works at the city and county level around the region. If Prop 6 on the November ballot passes, however, the new revenue that is funding many of these projects will go away, placing future road repairs at risk. Watch MTC correspondent Mark Jones’ latest videos as he hits the streets, exploring how local governments around the Bay are grappling with their pothole problems, and what the loss of the money would mean for Bay Area motorists and pedestrians. |
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Impact of Prop 6 by 2027
Check out September’s Map of the Month to see the likely impact Proposition 6 would have on pavement around the Bay Area. MORE
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