California Transportation Commissioner Carl Guardino Launches Regional "Listening Tour" Wed., March 28 in Oakland

Newly-appointed CTC member to hold series of public meetings seeking input from public agencies, officials and citizens on transportation priorities, concerns

OVERVIEW: Carl Guardino, newly-appointed member of the California Transportation Commission, the agency responsible for allocating billions of dollars of transportation funds throughout the state annually, will hold a series of public meetings with public agencies, elected officials, interest groups and citizens throughout the greater Bay Area over the next 90 days to hear their concerns and priorities about transportation issues in their jurisdictions and communities.

His first meeting will be held this Wednesday, March 28, at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in Oakland, beginning at 10 a.m.

Guardino's "Listening Tour" will travel to 12 counties, from Monterey and San Benito in the south to Napa and Sonoma in the north, and will include hearings before county boards of supervisors, city councils, transit agencies, community organizations, industry and business groups. He will seek feedback in four specific areas: traffic concerns, road safety issues, priorities for options to the automobile and strategies for leveraging limited state transportation funds.

Guardino is also the CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a public policy trade association that represents more than 200 employers, who collectively provide one of every four jobs in Silicon Valley. He is only the second state transportation commissioner from Silicon Valley in the panel's 30-year history. He began his four-year term on the nine-member commission March 1.

WHAT: California Transportation Commissioner Carl Guardino meets with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission

WHEN: Wednesday, March 28, 10 a.m.

WHERE: MTC, 101 8th Street, 3rd Floor, Oakland, CA 94607

FUTURE MEETINGS SCHEDULED TO DATE:

April 5 - San Francisco County Transportation Authority
April 11 - Solano County Board of Supervisors/Solano Transit Authority
April 17 - Napa County Board of Supervisors/Napa Congestion Management
April 24 - Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors
April 24 - San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)
May 1 - Sonoma County Board of Supervisors
May 1 - Marin County Board of Supervisors/Marin Congestion Management
May 14 - Sonoma County Transit Authority
May 15 - Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors
May 16 - Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors
May 22 - Alameda County Board of Supervisors
May 23 - Transportation Agency for Monterey County
May 24 - Alameda County Congestion Management
May 30 - Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority
June 12 - San Benito County Board of Supervisors