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TRANSACTIONS NEWSLETTER ONLINE

June 2003

In Brief

Transportation 2030 - Getting from here to thereTransportation 2030: Get Involved Via Online Poll
Did you miss MTC’s Summit to kick off the Transportation 2030 planning process? You still can experience the Summit virtually via a new Web site. In addition to providing Webcasts of the conference panels, background materials and a handy guide to transportation gobbledygook, the site invites you to vote electronically (via the “Get Involved” button) on a range of hot transportation issues. Your input will help guide the draft Transportation 2030 Plan. You also can register to receive e-mail alerts for future outreach meetings.
See www.mtc.ca.gov/T2030.

MTC 2002 Annual Report2002 Annual Report Demystifies MTC
“We are three agencies in one, with a shared mission: to keep the Bay Area moving.” So begins the recently issued 2002 Annual Report for MTC and its two offshoots, the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) and the Service Authority for Freeways and Expressways (SAFE). The handsome and hefty report (90 pages, including complete financial reports for MTC, BATA and SAFE) sorts the agency’s myriad activities into easy-to-understand groupings: taming traffic, promoting travel options, expanding and upgrading infrastructure, revitalizing communities, and delivering dollars.

The report can be accessed online, or ordered from the MTC Library — e-mail: library@mtc.ca.gov, fax: 510.817.5932, tel.: 510.817.5836.

511511 Service Scores State Award
At this year’s 14th annual “Tranny” awards ceremony in May, the California Transportation Foundation (CTF) awarded the “Transportation Management Tranny” to MTC for its 511 travel guide system that provides phone and Web access to real-time data on road conditions and traffic incidents as well as to information on transit routes and schedules and bicycling resources. Activated in December 2002, the system now receives a monthly average of more than 90,000 calls. The CTF commended MTC for its groundbreaking achievement in effectively activating the first 511 program in California.
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