Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA)

The Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) collects toll funds and uses that money to fund major projects that support bridges, roads and the Bay Area transportation network. Preserving Bay Area Toll Bridges...

The Carquinez Bridge is actually two bridges. Located near Vallejo, on Interstate 80 between Contra Costa and Solano counties, the original crossing opened in 1927. To accommodate the ever-increasing...

The California Transportation Foundation (CTF) this month named the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) as its Organization of the Year as part of the CTF's 32nd annual Transportation Awards. The CTF...

The Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) Oversight Committee: Oversees the work of BATA, which administers revenue from the region’s seven state-owned toll bridges Manages the FasTrak® electronic toll...

Once one of the busiest evening commutes in the Bay Area, the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge saw enormous improvements in traffic flow with the completion of the bridge’s widening in January 2003. Funded as...

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is made up of two bridge segments: a skyway structure/single anchored suspension bridge between Oakland and Yerba Buena Island, and a suspension span from the...

The original Dumbarton Bridge was the first vehicular crossing over San Francisco Bay proper. It is also known as State Route 84, located between San Mateo and Alameda counties near Newark and East...

While it took a half-century of traffic growth to require a bridge to replace the ferries crossing the Carquinez Strait between Benicia and Martinez, it took only a couple of decades for ballooning...

The Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) today announced that the start of 2021 also will herald the launch of a new all-electronic toll collection system at the Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez...