Oakland (Calif.)

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OAKLAND, CA — Local transportation and planning officials are applauding yesterday’s action by California’s Strategic Growth Council to award over $47 million in state Cap-and-Trade funds to 11...

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OAKLAND, CA — However you measure Team Bike Challenge’s impact — whether it’s the number of people who participated, the amount of green miles cycled, the pounds of carbon dioxide removed from the air...

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OAKLAND, CA — The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) invites the public to attend two meetings next week in Oakland to discuss and comment on updated Guidelines for Countywide Transportation...

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OAKLAND, CA — MTC’s governing Commission started a new four-year term this week and welcomed three new or recently added commissioners: newly elected Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who has assumed the...

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OAKLAND, CA — What better way to participate in National Bike Month in May than by getting on a bicycle and pedaling as part of the 21st annual Bay Area Bike to Work Day on Thursday, May 14? Bike to...

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MTC and ABAG invite the public to open houses in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 13, and in San Rafael on Thursday, May 28, to learn about an update to the region's long-range transportation and...

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OAKLAND, CA — The forecast of rain could not keep tens of thousands of bike commuters across the Bay Area from participating in Bike to Work Day’s 21st birthday celebration. Warmed by the excitement...

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From the Office of Mayor Ed Lee: San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and Emeryville Mayor Ruth Atkin today announced a...

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It runs on a cable system, but it doesn’t look quite like the Bay Area’s other cable cars. It’s the brand new, American-made Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) vehicle, and it successfully made its...

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They aren’t old enough to drive across a bridge, but that didn’t deter Lafayette Elementary School fourth and fifth-graders from donning hard hats and safety vests and learning how to build one...