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Be one of the very first to ride or walk across the newest bridge pedestrian/bicycle lane in the Bay Area. On Saturday, August 29, 2009 , the 2.2 mile pedestrian/bike path on the Benicia-Martinez...

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Friday, March 4, 2011, 2 p.m. The last leg of the last tier of Bay Bridge East Span tower legs touched down at 1:25 a.m. this morning, without a hitch and several hours ahead of schedule. The...

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After eight months of intense excavation on the Caldecott Tunnel fourth bore from the east end in Orinda, miners have begun to excavate from the west end in Oakland. The two holes are anticipated to...

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OAKLAND, CA — Top officials from more than a dozen local and state transportation agencies are joining together today in San Francisco to show solidarity with the national Stand Up for Transportation...

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OAKLAND, CA — The Bay Area Incident Management Task Force (IMTF) — a multi-agency partnership that includes the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Caltrans, the California Highway Patrol, Federal...

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Beleaguered motorists stuck on Interstate 80 between the Carquinez Bridge and the Bay Bridge, one of the busiest commutes in the Bay Area, are all too familiar with gridlock and slow-and-go traffic...

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Top officials from more than a dozen Bay Area transit agencies will join together on Thursday, April 9, for a press conference where they will make a unified pitch for Congress to pass a comprehensive...

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Caltrans will close the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge over two full weekends, beginning, May 8-11, and continuing Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-25. The full closures for all eastbound and westbound lanes...

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According to projections detailed in plans released today, Caltrans will need approximately $80 billion over the next ten years to address current and future needs of the state highway system—a...

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They aren’t old enough to drive across a bridge, but that didn’t deter Lafayette Elementary School fourth and fifth-graders from donning hard hats and safety vests and learning how to build one...