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TRANSACTIONS NEWSLETTER ONLINE

January-February 2009

In Print and Online: Transportation 2035 Documents Released

The Draft Transportation 2035 Plan and the associated Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) are now available along with technical reports and related plans.

To save costs as well as paper, the Commission encourages residents to view the documents online. Hard-copy versions can be requested by e-mailing library@mtc.ca.gov (include your mailing address) or by calling the MTC-ABAG Library at 510.817.5836.

Get Involved

This Plan Is Your Plan

Nearly 6,000 Bay Area residents from all walks of life helped shape the Draft Transportation 2035 Plan. The outreach effort — unprecedented for MTC in its scope — began in June 2007 with “early dialogue” workshops on overall goals for the 25-year plan. The conversation continued in the fall of that year, when MTC and the Association of Bay Area Governments sponsored a joint regional forum in Oakland that drew a “sellout” crowd of 700 attendees. And throughout 2007 and 2008, MTC reached out to constituents with numerous public workshops and focus groups, two statistically valid telephone polls (conducted in three languages), interactive Web surveys, “person on the street” interviews, and in-depth discussions with members of MTC’s three advisory committees.

Whether you participated in the extensive outreach effort over these past two years or are tuning in to the Transportation 2035 process for the first time, we encourage you to take a few moments to read this special issue of Transactions. In it, we highlight what’s new and different about the plan, and provide some compelling statistics as to what the plan can and cannot achieve.

We also invite you to view the full plan along with its Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and associated documents, and to send us comments via the methods — and by the deadlines — described below.

Written Comments

Written comments on the Draft Transportation 2035 Plan must be received no later than 4 pm on Monday, March 2, 2009. These may be sent to:

MTC Public Information
101 Eighth Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Fax: 510.817.5848
E-mail: info@mtc.ca.gov

Written comments on the draft EIR must be received by 4 pm on Monday, February 2, 2009, and should be sent to:

Ashley Nguyen, Senior Planner
MTC Planning Section
101 Eighth Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Fax: 510.817.5848
E-mail: anguyen@mtc.ca.gov

The Draft Transportation Air Quality Conformity Analysis for the Transportation 2035 Plan and 2009 Transportation Improvement Program is also available online. Comments are due to MTC by 4 pm on
February 9, 2009, and can be directed to:

MTC Planning Section
101 Eighth Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Fax: 510.817.5848
E-mail: anguyen@mtc.ca.gov

Additional comments on the draft plan can be made before the Commission at its public meetings up to adoption of the final plan, expected on Wednesday, March 25, 2009.

The Draft 2008 Regional Bicycle Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area is also available online. Comments on the bicycle plan will be accepted through February 2, 2009, and can be directed in an e-mail to BikePlan@mtc.ca.gov or by calling 510.817.5757. The plan is expected to be adopted along with the Transportation 2035 Plan in March of 2009.

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