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MTC this month hosted a Federal Transit Administration-sponsored roundtable to gauge how safe the Bay Area’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities feel using public transit...

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The Metropolitan Transportation Commission this month received a $500,000 grant from the Federal Transit Administration through the agency’s Enhancing Mobility Innovation (EMI) program to demonstrate...

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Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) Chair and Napa County Supervisor Alfredo Pedroza today thanked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the other members of the Bay Area’s congressional caucus for...

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MTC’s Programming and Allocations Committee today approved a three-point set of principles to guide the distribution to Bay Area transit agencies in the coming months of nearly $1.7 billion in federal...

The MTC Administration Committee: Oversees the operation and management of MTC staff Approves consultant contracts Sets the commission’s budget Establishes financial and personnel policies Oversees...

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Work is getting under way on the long-awaited Caltrain electrification project, thanks to the Federal Transit Administration’s action in May 2017 to finally approve a Full-Funding Grant Agreement...

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MTC released a list of about 700 Bay Area transportation projects—a total of approximately $6.6 billion in committed federal, state and local funding for the four-year period through 2020.

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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration this spring jointly recertified the SF Bay Area’s transportation planning process through May...

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OAKLAND, CA — The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today named Therese W. McMillan as its Deputy Administrator, the #2 job at FTA. McMillan, who has been a member of the Metropolitan...

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The sun was scorching at the site of the old Pagoda Palace Theater in San Francisco’s North Beach last Friday morning, but the Central Subway crews were blissfully protected. They were toiling away...