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Pop-Ups Get People Talking about Bay Area's Future
Better public transit, more affordable housing, and new routes for safe biking and walking were recurring themes raised by more than 3,000 Bay Area residents at more than three dozen “pop-up” workshops held around the region this fall as part of Plan Bay Area 2050. Learn more about what we heard and the next steps for the plan.
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Comment on I-880 Express Lane Toll Policy
MTC will open its new I-880 Express Lanes in the summer of 2020. The toll system is being installed now, and testing will begin in spring 2020. Before tolling starts, MTC’s Bay Area Infrastructure Financing Authority affiliate must adopt rules for how tolling will work. Learn how to submit your comments online or in person at an open house or public hearing. MORE
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Perspective Paper Considers New Transbay Crossings
As part of the Horizon initiative, a new paper explores potential future travel routes across San Francisco Bay. Whether built for cars, trucks and buses or BART, any new route would have transformative effect on our region’s transportation network and its broader growth pattern. Check out the paper to learn more about the seven transbay crossing options explored and our regional planning process. MORE
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Streets and Roads Benefit from Gas Tax Dollars
Bay Area cities and counties largely improved the quality of the pavement on their local street and road networks in 2018. With more state dollars flowing to cities’ and counties’ pavement programs after the November 2017 start of the Senate Bill 1 fuel tax increases, the region boosted its average pavement condition index score for 2018 to 68 out of 100 points. MORE
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New East Span: A Visual Feast
Stunning photos by star Bay Area photographer Noah Berger capture the beauty of the new East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in various lights.
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Pier Retention
As the old Bay Bridge East Span was dismantled, some of its foundation piers were retained as tangible reminders of the original span. One of the vista platforms made from the old span is now open to the public on Yerba Buena Island.
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