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MEDIA ADVISORY

Metropolitan Transportation Commission Announces $122 Million Windfall for Bay Area Highways, Streets and Transit Systems

Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Barrier in Line for Funding

Contact:

Randy Rentschler, MTC, 510.817.5780
John Goodwin, MTC, 510.817.5862 (510.520.6853, cell)

Map of funded projects (PDF)WHEN:

11 a.m., Tuesday, April 12, 2005

WHAT:

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) hosts a press briefing to announce distribution plans for $122 million in new federal/state money flowing to the Bay Area. The windfall will help accelerate highway construction projects, repair local streets and roads, meet transit rehabilitation needs, and improve safety and efficiency of the Bay Area transportation network. Included in the total is $15 million for “lifeline” transportation services for low-income residents across all nine Bay Area counties.

Key projects slated to receive funding include environmental review and preliminary engineering for a suicide barrier for the Golden Gate Bridge (total cost for this phase is $2 million, of which MTC is supplying $1.6 million). Other big-ticket items include $8.5 million for systemwide track and related structure rehabilitation for Caltrain; $21 million to help close the carpool-lane gap along U.S. 101 in San Rafael; $17.5 million to widen Interstate 238 from Interstate 580 to Interstate 880 in Alameda County; and $7 million for BART’s core system rehabilitation. MTC also is setting aside $22.5 million for repair and upkeep of local streets and roads in all nine counties.

WHERE:

Caltrain Station, 4 th and Townsend Streets, San Francisco
(Inside the station, under the big clock)

WHO:

Scheduled speakers include:

  • San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
  • MTC Chair Jon Rubin (S.F. mayor's appointee to MTC)
  • MTC Commissioner and former San Mateo County Supervisor Mike Nevin
  • MTC Commissioner and San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano
  • MTC Commissioner and Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty
  • MTC Commissioner and Petaluma City Councilmember Pamela Torliatt
  • Representative of the California Alliance for Jobs (invited)

Map of funded projects (PDF)

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