
The Bay Link – the joint blog of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) – recently celebrated the six-month anniversary of its "soft launch" in December 2017.
Over that time, we've served as a single public information resource for both agencies, providing news, views and analysis on a wide range of regionally relevant topics, including housing, land use, transportation, the economy, the environment, climate change and resilience, among many others.
Below is a curated round-up of the "Best of the Bay Link" that you may have missed over the last few months. Don't forget to subscribe to receive a weekly digest of the latest posts, and feel free to drop us a line at blog@bayareametro.gov for any comments or questions.
Housing and the Economy
- The Bay Area’s Fastest Growing Cities and Towns
- New Data from U.S. Census Shows (Mostly) Broad and Steady Employment Growth, Highlights Changing Nature of Bay Area Economy
- Bay Area and California Housing and Transportation Highlights from the Fiscal Year 2018 Federal Budget
- Fun With U.S. Census Data: Bay Area Highlights from the 2017 Local Population Estimates
- An Overview of the 2018 Housing Policy Landscape in California
- International Comparisons of Intergenerational Trends: Income, Labor, Housing and Wealth
- The Dangers of Housing Loss in an Earthquake
- ABAG Launches Exciting New Data Portal, Regional Permitting Activity in 2016 Disappoints
- Record Low Unemployment Across (Much of) the Bay Area, and the Delicate Policy Dance That Follows
- Regional Economic Divergence and the Conundrums of Prosperity; ABAG's Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
- CASA: Drafting a Blueprint for a Better Bay Area
Transportation
- State Recommends $2 Billion in Funding for 23 Bay Area Transportation Projects
- An Update on BART's "Fleet of the Future" and Train Control Modernization Project
- Roll Up to Work in Style: It’s Bike to Work Day!
- New Book Explores the Latest and Greatest Research on Parking, the “Cinderella of Transportation”
- "Why Do Bridges Fail?" Plus A Regional Good News Story
- New Report Details How Cap-and-Trade Proceeds Benefit California and the Bay Area
- Pedestrian Fatalities Are Increasing Nationwide. Why? and Fatalities and Injuries From Crashes on the Rise, MTC Supports State Goal of Zero Traffic Deaths by 2030
- MTC Adopts 10-Year Investment Strategy for Goods Movement
- New BART Train Cars Are Rolling into Service
- MTC Approves $386 Million for 180 Projects Across the Region Through the OBAG 2 County Program
- Participatory Budgeting: A Proposed MTC Pilot Project and a Brief Lit Review
- New Light Rail Vehicles Come to San Francisco, Plus the Wilderness of Transportation Finance
- The End of the Automotive Era?
Resilience, Energy and the Environment
- Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge Final Projects Revealed
- San Francisco Bay Restoration Projects and Estuary Success Stories
- Staff Dispatch: Learning From the Mexico City Earthquake
- BayREN: Regional Energy Efficiency with a Local Touch
- San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority Gears Up for First Round of Projects, Invites Citizens to Apply to Oversight Committee
- San Francisco Estuary Partnership Newsletter, Bay Area Water Trail Maps Now Available
- Resilient By Design | Bay Area Challenge: 10 Teams, 32 Ideas to Address Climate Change
Agency News
- Preview of 6/8 MTC Standing Committee Meetings: Autonomous Vehicles, Primary Election Results, and Much More
- Highlights from the Spring 2018 ABAG General Assembly
- 5/23 MTC Meeting Wrap-Up: Commission Offers Support for Proposed BART TOD Policy, Approves Pilot Program Offering Fare Discounts for Low-Income Transit Riders
- Horizon Peer Exchange and Preliminary Futures
- MTC and ABAG Release First-Ever Joint Annual Report to Congress
- Are We Coming Through Loud and Clear? Are We Hearing You?
- What's Holding Us Back? Talking Bay Area Transportation and Housing
- Introducing: Horizon
- New President and Vice President at ABAG
- Beyond the Headlines: Reading Recommendations from the MTC-ABAG Library, with a Spotlight on Housing
- "The Nobility of Public Service" – MTC Commissioners Honor the Late San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee
- Honors, Awards and Deals of the Year - Oh My! 2017 in Review
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