News, Views and Analysis from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments
Youth from all nine Bay Area counties will play a role in the Horizon planning process over the next three years. Read More
What should the San Francisco Bay Area of the future look like? MTC and ABAG want to hear from you as we develop a blueprint for how our region lives, works and plays in the decades ahead. Read More
Would you like to help MTC improve how we provide information and hear public input on transportation projects and programs? Would you like better connections with the agency that plans for the future of the Bay Area's road, highway and transit networks? If so, please share your thoughts about how we can best reach out to you for comments and ideas by completing a brief survey (takes about three minutes).
The survey closes on February 21, 2018 and is being conducted in Spanish and Chinese as well as English. Read More
According to the Participatory Budgeting Project, participatory budgeting (PB):
... is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. It enables taxpayers to work with government to make the budget decisions that affect their lives.
PB has been around internationally for some time and recently PB projects have been implemented locally on a limited scale in both Vallejo and Oakland. Since 2012, the City of Vallejo has engaged over 15,000 residents in allocating nearly $7 million for 25 local projects. In Oakland, over 1,200 residents of two City Council Districts helped decide how to spend nearly $800,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to benefit low-and moderate-income residents.
Here at MTC, staff are proposing to pilot PB projects through the next cycle of the Community-Based Transportation Planning (CBPT) Program, set to run from 2017-2021. Read More