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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

WTS San Francisco Bay Area Honors MTC’s 511 Regional Carpool Program

MTC Public Information Officer, Former Commissioner Also Recognized
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Caltrain Electrification Project Charges Forward

Feds Unlock Full Funding Grant Agreement
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Rendering of new Caltrain Electrical Multiple Unit (EMU)
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Bike to Work Day 2017

Bike to Work Day 2017 was another hit. In its 23rd year in the Bay Area, almost 100,000 pedalers across nine counties showed how easy it is to get to work, school, or wherever, on a bike.
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Resilient by Design: Call for Grant Proposals & Project Sites

Sponsors Issue Design Brief & RFQ
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Rising Sea Level

The Rockefeller Foundation is funding a $4.6 million dollar grant to help the Bay Area pay for ten projects to deal with rising sea levels that are expected to increase by six to nine feet over the next 100 years.
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Resilient by Design Launches Bay Area Challenge

MTC-supported Initiative Seeks to Address Regional Climate Change Impacts
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See list of participants below. Photo by Cosimo Bullo.
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Cormorants

After four years of tempting hundreds of Double-Crested Cormorants to migrate from the old East Span of the Bridge Bridge to the new East Span, the migration has finally happened.
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Cormorants Flock to Nesting Platforms on New East Span

Avian Refugees From Old Span Finally Discover New Bridge
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Caltrans staff observe the cormorants, which are nesting on platforms installed on the underside of the new East  Span Skyway

Explore the Bay Trail With TV Personality Doug McConnell

New App Offers 12 Narrated Tours Around the Bay
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Doug McConnell

Happy 80th Birthday, Golden Gate Bridge!

Share Your Favorite Photos and Stories Online
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Golden Gate Bridge
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Students Think Big at 2017 YES Conference

"This is the one earth we have, and we've got to live here forever, so we better save it now."
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View looking down on people gathering in the Metro Center atrium lobby.

WETA and Port of SF Break Ground on Project to Expand Ferry Terminal

MTC Contributes $22 Million in Bridge Toll Funds
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See list of participants below. Photo by Alain McLaughlin.
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New Vista Point at Yerba Buena Island

The San Francisco County Transportation Authority, in cooperation with the Bay Area Toll Authority, Caltrans and Treasure Island Development Authority, opened the Vista Point visitor area on Yerba Buena Island on May 2, 2017.
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New Vista Point at Yerba Buena Island Offers Views and Amenities to Cyclists/Pedestrians

East Span Bike Path Now Open Weekdays in Addition to Weekends
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Oakland Mayor and MTC Commissioner Libby Schaaf (left) participated in the rolling press event marking the opening of the Vista Point and new weekday hours for the East Span bike/ped path.