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Mayor Newsom Cuts Ribbon at FasTrak® Grand Opening

New Customer Service Center and Enhanced Web Site Offer FasTrak® Customers Easier Sign-up and Account Management

New FasTrak® Lanes to Be Announced (See diagram)

What: Join Mayor Newsom, city officials, business leaders and executives from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), Caltrans and the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District (GGBHTD) as they unveil a new FasTrak® customer service center in San Francisco and a new FasTrak® Web site. In addition to a ribbon cutting ceremony and speeches, the Mayor and distinguished guests will tour the new customer service center, and will showcase the new Web site’s advanced features.

FasTrak® is the electronic toll collection system used on each of the Bay Area’s eight toll bridges. The new Web site and customer service center make it easier for Bay Area residents to sign-up for FasTrak® and to manage their FasTrak® accounts online. This will help make traffic flow more efficiently by encouraging drivers to pay bridge tolls electronically.

Caltrans to announce new FasTrak® lanes during the event.

Visuals & Interviews: Mayor Newsom and other officials cutting the ribbon, media tour of facility, drivers getting FasTrak® transponders, employees answering phones, shots of enhanced Web site, etc.

Speakers: Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco

Tom Ammiano, San Francisco Supervisor, MTC Commissioner and GGBHTD director

Maureen Middlebrook, President, GGBHTD Board of Directors

Jon Rubin, MTC Chair

Bijan Sartipi, Caltrans District 4 Director and MTC Commissioner

Jim Wunderman, President, Bay Area Council

When: *11:30 a.m., Tuesday, June 7, 2005 – *Please note updated start time

Where: New FasTrak® Customer Service Center located at 475 The Embarcadero (near Broadway) in San Francisco. The grand opening/press event will take place directly in front of the building .

Contact: To coordinate interviews following the grand opening/press event contact:
Mary Currie, GGBHTD, 415-923-2222 (Office), 415-317-2222 (Cell)
John Goodwin, MTC, 510-817-5862 (Office), 510-520-6853 (Cell)
Jeff Weiss, Caltrans, 510-286-5543 (Office), 510-612-7665 (Cell)

See new FasTrak® Web site

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