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Plan Bay Area 2040 marked a major milestone with the approval of the Final Preferred Scenario by MTC and ABAG. The Preferred Scenario provides a roadmap for accommodating household and employment...

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Six of the 20 transportation improvements identified by TRIP as being the most needed in the San Francisco Bay area have received a red light because they are unfunded.

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How do you begin to talk about housing affordability in a region with increasing wealth as well as areas of intractable poverty and skyrocketing costs of living? MTC and the Association of Bay Area...

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OAKLAND, CA — Across the country, economic activity is increasingly concentrated in closely linked groups of metropolitan areas known as megaregions. One of these emerging megaregions is in northern...

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OAKLAND, CA — Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) staff today unveiled an Initial Vision Scenario for the Sustainable Communities Strategy...

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MTC sponsored a workshop earlier this month that kicked off the development of a regional Transit Priority Policy, which aims to establish a vision to support the implementation of transit priority...

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Dear Bay Area Residents, Communities nationwide and across the Bay Area are expressing their anguish and outrage over the recent violent deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd and...