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The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) today voted to pursue legislation in Sacramento this year that would enable Bay Area voters to consider a transportation revenue measure as early as...

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California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) Transportation Secretary Toks Omishakin last week appointed MTC’s Chief Deputy Executive Director Alix Bockelman to the state’s Transit Transformation...

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MTC Executive Director Andrew Fremier and more than a dozen other Bay Area transportation leaders and policy advocates testified Monday afternoon at a hearing convened by the state Senate Select...

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The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) today approved an emergency transit operations funding plan that, if approved by the state, will use state and regional funds for transit operations to...

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California transit agencies this week received expected but nonetheless welcome financial news as the fiscal 2023-24 state budget signed into law by Gov. Newsom while aboard a BART train includes $1.1...

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The fiscal 2023-24 state budget agreement released today by the Legislature features $1.1 billion in flexible transportation funding to help California transit agencies avoid a near-term ‘fiscal cliff...

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Friday's release of Gov. Gavin Newsom's updated 2023-24 budget proposal underscores the governor's interest in working with the Legislature to provide California transit agencies with operating...

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The Metropolitan Transportation Commission today voted unanimously to endorse a suite of recommendations to the Legislature for crafting a new state budget that provides operating funding on a multi...

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MTC this week joined dozens of organizations from around California as signatories to a letter seeking mulit-year transit funding from the Legislature to address financial shortfalls facing operators...

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MTC this week joined dozens of other organizations from around California as signatories to a letter urging the chairs of the budget committees in both the state Senate and Assembly to include a major...