Dr. Joshua Miele of the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute and Greg Kehret of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired invented Braille and tactile maps that allow blind and visually impaired persons to navigate in BART and Muni Metro stations.
The West County Transportation Agency, a joint powers authority of 16 school districts in Sonoma County, was presented an Award of Merit for providing transportation for all students, including the disabled, in a safe and efficient manner.
The Bay Bridge East Span bicycle and pedestrian path opened all the way from Oakland to its Yerba Buena Island landing for the first time on Sunday, October 23, 2016.
At a press conference on October 3, 2016, in San Jose, MTC unveiled its annual ranking of the Bay Area’s most congested freeway segments. Four MTC commissioners were on hand to deliver the news.
New updates to MTC's Vital Signs performance monitoring initiative for five indicators related to the Bay Area's land & people and air quality have been released. Learn more at vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov.
MTC’s Vital Signs performance monitoring initiative just released updated data for three indicators related to transportation: time spent in congestion, miles traveled in congestion, and travel time reliability. To learn more, go to vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov.
Bay Area Bike Share operator Motivate, which manages the program through a contract with MTC, announced a partnership with Ford Motor Co. that paves the way for a tenfold expansion of the region's bike share fleet and a rebranding as Ford GoBike.
Artists and designers visited the East Span demolition salvage yard in mid-August to view the steel that is available for creative reuse via the Oakland Museum’s ‘Bay Bridge Steel’ program.
Roads and bridges that are deficient, congested or lack desirable safety features cost California $53.6 billion annually due to higher vehicle operating costs, traffic crashes and congestion-related delays, according to a new report.
