MTC Briefing: CASA Compact, Ebike Expansion, Enlisting Interns

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  Metropolitan Transportation Commission MTC Briefing: January 2019  
 

Policy Leaders Endorse Bold Strategies to Ease Housing Crisis

 
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  After 18 months of research and deliberations, the high-profile CASA panel (aka The Committee to House the Bay Area) has issued the CASA Compact, a set of ambitious policy recommendations to both state and local officials designed to help solve the Bay Area’s longstanding housing-affordability crisis. The Compact encourages the production of more housing for people at all income levels, preserving affordable housing that already exists and protecting current residents from displacement in rapidly changing neighborhoods. At their monthly meeting on December 19, 2018, MTC’s commissioners voted to authorize Commission Chair Jake Mackenzie to sign on to the CASA Compact. More  
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MTC   Causes and Cures for Transit Center’s Cracked Beams Come Into Focus
Engineering consultants have uncovered the likely root causes of the cracks that compromised two massive beams holding up the new Salesforce Transit Center, and also are converging on a preferred design for the repairs. Meanwhile, MTC’s expert Peer Review Panel is on a parallel track, evaluating these findings to ensure that the ultimate solution will be sound. MORE
 
 
MTC   Marin North-South Greenway Gets $10 Million
MTC recently awarded $10.6 million in regional toll dollars to Marin County's North-South Greenway project. The money will go to the Transportation Authority of Marin for work on the northern segment of the bicycle and pedestrian pathway. MORE
 
 
MTC   New Year Means New Tolls on Bay Area Bridges
The Bay Area Toll Authority — an MTC affiliate — reminds drivers that several important changes took effect January 1, 2019, on the region’s seven state-owned toll bridges. These include the first of the $1 toll increases approved in 2017 via state Senate Bill 595 and confirmed by voters through Regional Measure 3 in June 2018. MORE
 
 
MTC   Ford GoBike Revs Up Ebikes
Ford GoBike is growing its ebike fleet to more than 1,400 of the pedal-assist cycles, celebrating the introduction of 500 to the East Bay at a launch event and ride-along on Friday, December 14, 2018, in Oakland. MORE
 
 
MTC   Apply Now for Paid Summer High School Internships
MTC is offering teens around the Bay Area the opportunity to gain professional experience in transportation planning, engineering and related fields through its 2019 High School Internship Program. The internship program, now celebrating its 19th year, is now accepting applications for paid summer jobs with a variety of public transit agencies, city planning departments and public works agencies throughout the region. MORE
 
 
MTC   New Bus/Carpool Lane Opens on West Grand Avenue Approach to Bay Bridge
MTC, Caltrans and the city of Oakland early this January completed work on the addition of a dedicated bus and carpool lane on the West Grand Avenue approach to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. MORE
 
 
MTC   Priority Conservation Areas – Call for Proposals
The State Coastal Conservancy, in cooperation with MTC and the Association of Bay Area Governments, has issued a call for proposals focused on the Bay Area’s Priority Conservation Areas designated under Plan Bay Area 2040. Letters of Interest are due on February 25, 2019. PCAs are open spaces that serve an important agricultural, natural resource, scenic, recreational and/or ecological purpose, and are established through the purchase of key natural lands, or through conservation easements with willing property owners. MORE
 
 
MTC   Expand Your Horizon With Talk on Growth
Join us on Wednesday, January 30, 2019, for our next Expand Your Horizon: Talks on the Future of the Bay Area event, timed to coincide with the release by MTC and the Association of Bay Area Governments of a new Perspective Paper on Regional Growth Strategies. Panelists will discuss the successes and shortcomings of the current Priority Development Area-centric growth framework; potential new options for meeting regional housing needs and reducing GHG emissions; and planning, policy and funding strategies. MORE
 
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  Golden Gate Suicide Barrier Work Underway
Work below the span is now visible to the public. The bridge district is targeting January 2021 as the date to finish the project, which is funded in part by MTC. MORE

What Will 2019 and Beyond Hold for Transportation?
Autonomous vehicles, flying cars, scooters, ebikes and commuter tunnels, oh my! MORE

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MTC   Mayors and Housing Interests Come Together to Endorse CASA Compact
All three of the region’s big-city mayors participated in the high-profile final meeting of the Steering Committee for CASA — The Committee to House the Bay Area — which was convened by MTC 18 months prior to address the region’s housing affordability crisis. MORE
 
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  The Future Belongs to Young People
MTC’s Y-Plan, or Youth Plan, campaign is part of the Horizon initiative and is designed to involve teens in shaping how schools are built in the future, how we’ll get to work, where jobs will be located and how the Bay Area will plan to quickly bounce back from disasters like climate change. The Horizon team is partnering with the Y-PLAN educational organization at UC Berkeley to take this introductory video into select classrooms around the Bay to energize and inspire students. MORE
 
 
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  Ford GoBike Ebike Expansion
You can go farther faster with one of Ford GoBike’s new ebikes. MORE
 
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MTC   Bay Area Rent Increases, 2011 to 2016
Between 2011 and 2016, most places in the Bay Area experienced significant rent increases. In fact, many communities saw rent increases of 40 percent or more in the five-year period. For too many lower income residents in our region, this meant living with friends and family, moving out of their neighborhoods to more affordable places further east, or becoming homeless. That’s the sobering reality of the Bay Area’s housing crisis. MORE
 
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