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What’s Going On with the 57/60 Confluence Project Construction?
Construction is a year behind schedule, but work is being re-staged to recoup time. Changes are not expected to affect drivers on the freeways.
August 26, 2025
Judge Blasts, Approves, I-80 Causeway Widening Between Davis and Sacramento
Caltrans wins. The environment loses.
August 19, 2025
South Bay Pauses Planned Metro/Caltrans 405 Freeway Widening
Metro suggested that that the South Bay Cities Council of Governments be responsible for a 405 Freeway project cost overruns. The SBCCOG board declined.
August 5, 2025
Metro/Caltrans Freeway Expansion Updates: Projects on 57/60, 605, 71 Freeways
57/60 Freeway construction might be a year late, first segment of 71 Freeway construction finishing, and agencies keep setting the stage for 605 Freeway mega-project.
July 31, 2025
Commentary: The French City of Lyon Shows How to Connect Oakland and Western Alameda
An amazing 24/7 bike-ped-transit connection can be made for pennies on the dollar—if the Bay Area can get past its car-brain affliction.
July 15, 2025
Call to Action: Car Brains Try to Remove San Mateo Committee Member for Opposing Widenings
Mike Swire fought highway widening, so asphalt-addicted bullies want him kicked off the San Mateo Transportation Authority Community Advisory Committee.
July 10, 2025
Whittier Councilmember Fernando Dutra Is New Metro Board Chair
Board Chair Dutra: "[Metro is] not just a train and a bus company. We also manage projects on the freeways... Our projects along the 5, the 605, 91, and 105 Freeway are very very important... I'll be focusing on making sure we keep our freeways moving freely."
July 9, 2025
Caltrans Continues Outreach on “Vision 980” for Oakland
Is there still some hope for reconnecting West Oakland with downtown by removing the huge barrier of I-980?
June 26, 2025
Caltrans and Riverside County Project Would Expand the 15 Freeway
The I-15 Express Lanes Project Southern Extension (ELPSE) would convert 15 miles of the existing 6-lane freeway to 10 and 11 lanes
May 19, 2025
Legislation Moves in Assembly to Loosen Environmental Regulations on Proposed Widening of SR 37
In 2023, the state passed a law to make it easier to build water and clean energy projects. Now some Assemblymembers want it to apply to a highway widening through environmentally sensitive marsh land.
April 29, 2025
