News, Views and Analysis from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments
A navigation app that guides users indoors and outdoors will significantly expand travel opportunities for visually impaired people, according to the developers of Waymap. Read More
California's current fiscal strength is poised to pay big dividends for transportation and housing investments around the Bay Area and across the state. The $300 billion-plus budget agreement announced Wednesday by state legislative leaders for the upcoming 2022-23 fiscal year directs more than $10 billion in projected surplus funds to advance a range of transportation priorities plus an additional $1.6 billion to help meet many of the state's longstanding housing affordability challenges. Gov. Newsom is expected to sign the budget into law by the end of this month. Read More
A lively and lengthy meeting of the Joint MTC ABAG Legislation Committee last Friday was highlighted by members’ vote to support of state Sen. Josh Becker’s Seamless Transit Transformation Act, SB 917, if the Legislature makes a few key amendments.
As the Bay Area emerges from the latest COVID-19 surge, transit ridership is on the rise again throughout the region. Read More
MTC is applauding an additional $536 million in American Rescue Plan funds to help Bay Area transit agencies battered by two years of pandemic-related ridership and revenue losses sustain operations. Read More
Bay Area transit is committed to keeping staff and passengers safe during the pandemic. Agencies increased cleaning, installed new air filters, and adopted protocols for their staff. We’re looking at vaccine requirements for transit employees around the region. Read More
MTC and a dozen other organizations have co-authored a set of principles for implementing open data exchange throughout the transit industry. Read More
As more schools prepare to reopen for in-person learning and more businesses welcome employees back to the workplace, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and more than two dozen transit agencies this week joined forces to launch a new multi-lingual advertising campaign encouraging Bay Area residents of all ages to move forward together on the region’s buses, trains, ferries and light-rail vehicles. Read More
New research shows an overwhelming majority of Bay Area residents — regardless of whether or not they ride public transit — believes reliable, frequent and safe transit is important to the Bay Area. Read More
MTC’s Programming and Allocations Committee on Wednesday 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 transit money the Bay Area will receive through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Read More