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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

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

MTC Public Information Officer, Former Commissioner Also Recognized
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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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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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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