SAN FRANCISCO, March 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Metropolitan
Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area
Governments (ABAG) today released proposed draft amendments to add
a high-occupancy vehicle (HOV)/express lane along Interstate 680
through Sunol, Pleasanton, Dublin and San
Ramon.
The proposed amendments are to the long-range regional
transportation and land use plan known as Plan Bay Area 2040 and to
the 2019 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). MTC and ABAG
invite Bay Area residents to comment on the draft amendments.
Comments must be received no later than Friday, April 24, 2020.
Work planned by the Alameda County Transportation Commission to
upgrade Interstate 680 in Alameda
County would add an express lane to the southbound and
northbound travel lanes from Alcosta Boulevard to State Route 84,
closing the gap between existing and in-progress express lane
projects directly to the north and south.
The proposed amendments would add the project cost and
description of the Interstate 680 Express Lane Gap Closure Project
in Alameda County to Plan Bay Area
2040 and to the TIP, necessitating a new Transportation-Air Quality
Conformity Analysis, which also was released today for public
comment through Friday, April 24,
2020.
Interested residents may go to
https://mtc.ca.gov/our-work/plans-projects/plan-bay-area-2040/draft-amendment-plan-bay-area-2040 and
click on the links in the "Related Documents" box to review the
proposed draft amendments and other pertinent materials. Written
comments may be addressed to MTC-ABAG Project Manager Adam Noelting, 375 Beale Street, Suite 800,
San Francisco, CA 94105. Comments
also may be sent via e-mail to info@planbayarea.org or by fax at
415.536.9800.
MTC is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating
agency for the nine-county San Francisco
Bay Area. ABAG is the Council of Governments and the
regional planning agency for the 101 cities and towns, and nine
counties of the Bay Area.
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Bay Area Governments