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Celebration Ushers in North Bay's SMART Train

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Officials cut the ribbon
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SMART Launch

The Bay Area's newest passenger rail service, and the first in nearly 60 years in the north bay, is now up and running in Sonoma and Marin County.
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MTC High School Interns Impress at Final Presentations

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SMART Ready to Roll

Free Rides on Opening Day — Friday, August 25, 2017
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SMART train
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Caltrain Electrification

Governor Jerry Brown was joined by top state and federal elected officials for the official groundbreaking ceremony to electrify Caltrain, enabling 65,000 daily passengers to travel the Peninsula by early 2021.
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Plan Bay Area 2040 Update

Plan Bay Area 2040 projects that the San Francisco Bay Area will grow by over two million people, one million jobs, and over 800,000 housing units between 2010 and 2040.
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Transformation: The Making of the Bay Area Metro Center

A slide show by photographer and video editor Kingmond Young
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High-Profile CASA Initiative Tackles Region’s Housing Crisis Head On

Fast-track Initiative to Produce Actionable Ideas in 16 Months
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Pedestrians and transit near housing

Over 50 Teams Clamor to Join Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge to Create Innovative Solutions to Climate Change

Bay Area Receives Worldwide Attention
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Ford GoBike Brings Bike Share to the East Bay for the First Time

With today’s launch, over 450 bikes at 43 stations are ready to ride in Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville
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Helping to usher in bikesharing in the East Bay were Emeryville Mayor Scott Donahue; Rene Rivera, executive director of Bike East Bay; Jay Walder, CEO of Motivate; Libby Schaaf, mayor of Oakland and MTC commissioner; Jess Arreguin, mayor of Berkeley; and

Plan Bay Area 2040 Performance Assessment

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Ford GoBike Launches

The Bay Area now has the second-largest bike share program in the United States. MTC has teamed up the largest bike share operator in the world, Motivate, with sponsors Ford and Alaska Airlines. Now you can get around town more easily than ever!
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Ford GoBike, the Bay Area’s Latest Sustainable Transportation Option, Now Available

Regional bike share network will offer 3,700 bicycles at 332 stations by this Labor Day in San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville and 7,000 bikes at 546 stations by end of next year
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MTC Commissioners (left to right) Julie Pierce, Jake Mackenzie (MTC chair), Amy Worth and Warren Slocum