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Calling the Bay Area Home: Tackling the Affordable Housing and Displacement Challenge

Special Forum on Saturday, February 20, 2016
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Light It Up!

The Bay Lights on the West Span of the Bay Bridge have been turned off for 11 months so that a new, more-robust LED system could be installed.
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Volunteers Needed for California’s Road Charge Pilot

Report outlines statewide pilot to study potential long-term replacement for the state’s gas tax
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The Bay Lights to Shine on Beginning Jan. 30

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The Bay Bridge West Span and Bay Lights at night
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MTC High School Internships

MTC will be taking applications for its high school internship program soon. High school kids from all over the Bay Area apply in droves because they will learn so much they can get a jump on future jobs.
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MTC High School Internships

Every year, hundreds of high school students from all over the Bay Area apply for intern jobs at MTC. By their own account, they learn an incredible amount during their internship.
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Assemblymember Frazier Releases Bold Transportation Funding Package

Bill Will Raise Over $7 Billion Annually for Road Repairs and Trade Corridors
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California Assemblyman Jim Frazier

Bay Area Affordable Housing Projects Receive Boost From Cap-and-Trade Grants

Grants Will Help Build 366 Units for Seniors and Families
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Congestion Report

MTC unveiled its annual ranking of the Bay Area’s most congested freeway segments.
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Vital Signs: Transportation Data Release

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MTC Awards Parking Management Grants to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Six Projects in Six Cities Win $6 Million in Grants
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"FAST" Action by Congress to Sustain Federal Transportation Funding

Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act Authorizes $305 Billion
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Oakland Museum of California Announces First Round of Bay Bridge Steel Program Awardees

Five Designs From First Round Applications Awarded Old Bay Bridge East Span Steel for Public Projects in Oakland, San Francisco, Petaluma and Joshua Tree
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Artists are clamoring for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to express their talents with a once-in-a-lifetime medium: actual steel from the old Bay Bridge East Span.

Introducing MTC's New Website

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YES Conference Preview: January 30, 2016

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BART Is One Step Closer to the Silicon Valley

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Bay Bridge Implosion

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In Memoriam: Mary King

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Mary King, with new Bay Bridge East Span image in the background