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Workshops on Future of Transportation in Alameda County and Bay Area

CONTACT:

Jean Hart
510.836.2560

Marj Blackwell
510.464.7884

OAKLAND, Calif., April 16, 2001...The future of transportation in Alameda County and the Bay Area will be discussed at two public workshops next week. They will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.:

o Tuesday, April 24, at the Oakland City Hall, 14th and
Broadway

o Thursday, April 25, at the Alameda County Kennedy
Community Center, 1333 Decoto Road, Union City

The workshops will focus on the Alameda County Transportation Plan and the 2001 Regional Transportation Plan. They are sponsored by the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency, in partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC).

The county plan consists of projects, programs and policies designed to provide a balanced transportation system in Alameda County over the next 25 years. The county's plan will influence the Regional Transportation Plan, being developed for the nine-county Bay Area by MTC. The regional plan will determine how billions of federal, state and regional tax dollars should be spent over the next 25 years to manage, maintain and improve transit systems, highways, airports, seaports, railroads, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities in the Bay Area.

"The Bay Area is facing some tough decisions on the future of transportation, and it's vitally important that all residents of Alameda County get involved and express their opinions on what these decisions should be," said MTC Commissioner Ralph Appezzato, Mayor of the city of Alameda. "I urge everyone to take the time in the next two months to contact MTC and the Congestion Management Agency and make their voices heard."

The workshops will feature interactive graphic displays that invite participants to express their views on proposed transportation projects in Alameda County as well as on regional transportation issues, such as impacts on the economy, the environment and social equity. A public discussion will follow on choices and tradeoffs the county and region must make in deciding how to invest transportation dollars.

For more information, including directions to the workshops, contact the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency at 510.836.2560. For information on the Regional Transportation Plan, contact MTC at 510.817.5757, by e-mail to <info@mtc.ca.gov>, or visit the MTC Web site at www.mtc.ca.gov.

MTC is the transportation planning, coordinating and financing agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. The Alameda County Congestion Management Agency is the local transportation planning agency for Alameda County.

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