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Regional Transit Authority Announces Dozen Project Proposal Finalists

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The competition is part of the Horizon initiative, an effort to identify ideas to deal with some of the biggest planning challenges and opportunities facing the nine-county region between now and the year 2050.

Six of the pitches are for transportation projects costing over $1 billion. The other six ideas identify ways of lowering the operational costs of the region's existing system.

One of the proposals, submitted by the Sonoma County Transportation and Land Use Coalition, calls for a new Richmond-San Rafael bridge with lanes for the North Bay's SMART train.

"Rebuild the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge with three lanes in each direction as well as commuter rail tracks and a bicycle/pedestrian facility. Extend SMART either from San Rafael or Larkspur across the new bridge and connect to Richmond BART/Amtrak station," the proposal state.

The six finalists for transformative capacity-increasing projects are:

The six finalists for transformative operational strategies consist of:

You can view outlines of all twelve project proposals here.

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