The critical issues facing the Bay Area – from transportation and housing to the economy, the environment and social equity – are probed in the new 90-plus page Futures Final Report entitled “Resilient and Equitable Strategies for the Bay Area’s Future.”
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MTC and ABAG Release Futures Final Report, Highlighting Resilient and Equitable Strategies for the Bay Area’s Future
Crossings: Perspective Paper Weighs Options for New Transbay Bridges, Tunnels
The construction of any new travel route across San Francisco Bay — whether for cars, trucks, buses, BART or other rail services — certainly would have a transformative effect on the Bay Area, reshaping both the region’s transportation network and its broader growth pattern.
New Horizon Perspective Paper: “The Future of Jobs”
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
Youth Art Contest Winners Selected
Winners of the “Art on the Horizon: Youth Confronting Climate Change” contest sponsored by MTC and the Association of Bay Area Governments were announced this week at the Y-Plan Policy Summit at UC
Bay Area Invited to Share Visions for Region’s Future at Contra Costa County Meeting
MTC and ABAG planners invite members of the public to share their visions for the future and their policy priorities for the Bay Area at a Contra Costa County public workshop, as part of the agencies’ Horizon initiative to develop a long-term transportation and land-use strategy.
Public Invited to Share Visions for Bay Area’s Future
MTC and ABAG planners invite members of the public to share their visions for the future and their policy priorities for the Bay Area at a series of public workshops, as part of the agencies’ Horizon initiative to develop a long-term transportation and land-use strategy.
Public Invited to Share Visions for Bay Area’s Future
MTC and ABAG planners invite members of the public to share their visions for the future and their policy priorities for the Bay Area at a series of public workshops, as part of the agencies’ Horizon initiative to develop a long-term transportation and land-use strategy.
Regional Agencies Seek Photo and Video Submissions from Youth
Big & Bold Visions By The Dozen: MTC and ABAG Announce Transformative Project Finalists
MTC and ABAG today announced the selection of the finalists in a public competition launched earlier this year to solicit big, bold and billion-dollar (or more) ideas for improving mobility across the nine-county Bay Area.
You Say You Got a Real (Transportation) Solution? MTC, ABAG Would Love to Hear Your Plan
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) today kicked off an 11-week campaign to solicit big, bold and billion-dollar (or even more) ideas
Documents
Horizon and Plan Bay Area 2050: Key Milestones
Horizon Y-PLAN Pilot Partnership Research Brief
Regional Growth Strategies: Perspective Paper
Futures Final Report: Resilient and Equitable Strategies for the Bay Area's Future (Jan. 2020)
Horizon/Plan Bay Area 2050: Final Project Performance Findings (February 2020)
Media
Y-PLAN: The Future Belongs to Youth
MTC is partnering with the Center for Cities + School’s Y-PLAN program to work with Bay Area students on the Horizon initiative.
Expand Your Horizon Event: Toward a Shared Future
On September 26, 2018, MTC and ABAG staff hosted an event at WeWork Valley Towers in San Jose to discuss strategies to support a future Bay Area where transportation—everything from bikes, scooters
Horizon: Proposed Futures
Government agencies have traditionally planned for the future based on historic and current events.
Expand Your Horizon Event: Autonomous Vehicles Perspective Paper
Autonomous vehicles are set to be one of the greatest disrupters to transportation in our lifetime. What impact might they have on the Bay Area?
Horizon Peer Exchange
Recognizing that new technologies, natural or manmade disasters, economic booms and busts, political volatility or other external forces may fundamentally alter the Bay Area’s future and prompt shi
Horizon Pop-Up Outreach Meetings, March 2018
This March, MTC staff members visited all nine Bay Area counties to get community input for the Horizon initiati