Report found average journeys across 10 US cities with populations ranging from 390,000 to 500,000 take 27.5 per cent longer due to today’s congestion levels.
The City is partnering with Populus to launch the zones that will allow operators to pay for their use of space through GPS technology from their vehicles.
The consortium of organisations behind the project will work together to deploy electric transit buses operated by AC Transit as mobile emergency back-up power for community centres in the area.
As part of its Universal Basic Mobility programme, it has distributed 500 prepaid debit cards for use in purchasing trips or passes on public transit, bikeshare, and shared e-scooters.
Iteris will provide staffing and management services to the 511 Operations Centre in Oakland and to the Regional Operations Centre to monitor traffic and toll collection systems along the MTC-operated express lanes.
A new collective will take a “place-based approach” to creating economic equity for low-wage workers through structural and systemic change in 10 locations across the US.
Initiative aims to help cities build a pipeline of projects and small business investments that move beyond the early stages of planning and attract private investment in economically distressed areas.
They will receive a share of more than $1m as part of the inaugural Knight Public Spaces Fellowship, which seeks to strengthen community engagement and connections.