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For Immediate Release

Workshop Set for April 30 at 6 p.m.

Public Workshop on Future of Transportation in Sonoma County and Bay Area

CONTACT:

Ellen Griffin, MTC
510.817.5854

Janet Spilman, Sonoma Co. Transportation Authority
707.565.5373

OAKLAND, Calif., April 18, 2001...The future of transportation in Sonoma County and the Bay Area will be featured at a public workshop in Santa Rosa. The event will be held Monday, April 30, at 6 p.m., in the Sonoma County Permit and Resource Management Department, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 2550 Ventura Avenue in Santa Rosa.

The workshop is co-sponsored by the Sonoma County Transportation Authority's Citizens' Advisory Committee and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), and will focus on the 2001 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). Each county's transportation priorities will influence the RTP, which is being developed for the Bay Area by MTC. The RTP will specify how billions of federal, state and regional tax dollars should be spent over the next 25 years to manage, maintain and improve the Bay Area transportation network. The network includes transit systems, highways, airports, seaports, railroads, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

"The Bay Area faces tough choices on how to allocate regional transportation dollars over the next 25 years. I hope this meeting will stimulate citizen interest and participation in the development of the Regional Transportation Plan," said Sharon Wright, Santa Rosa City Council member and an MTC Commissioner.

The workshop will feature interactive graphic displays that illustrate transportation issues and that invite participants to express their views on proposed transportation projects, including how the transportation system affects the economy, the environment and social equity. A discussion will follow on choices and tradeoffs the county and region must make in deciding how to invest transportation dollars.

For more information about the public workshop or the Regional Transportation Plan, contact the Sonoma County Transportation Authority at 707.565.5373, or MTC at 510.817.5757.

MTC is the transportation planning, coordinating and financing agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. The Sonoma County Transportation Authority is the local transportation planning agency for Sonoma County.

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