{"id":268289,"date":"2026-04-15T01:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268289\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:45:19","slug":"work-to-start-on-i-580-carpool-lane-extension-in-oakland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268289\/","title":{"rendered":"Work to Start on I-580 Carpool Lane Extension in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Bay Bridge Forward Project Marks First Conversion of General-Purpose Lane<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">SAN FRANCISCO, April 14, 2026 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) today announced that construction work will begin next week on a six-month project to convert the far-left lane of westbound Interstate 580 to a high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane from just east of the Piedmont Avenue undercrossing in Oakland to the start of the existing westbound carpool lane near the foot of the MacArthur Maze.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/2324135\/Metropolitan_Transportation_Commission_Logo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3907d2f16ae4d5de97204facd2b53b6a.jpeg\" alt=\"MTC Logo_Dec 2023 (PRNewsfoto\/Metropolitan Transportation Commission)\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"49\" width=\"400\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/><\/a> MTC Logo_Dec 2023 (PRNewsfoto\/Metropolitan Transportation Commission)      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The 2.3-mile project \u2014 undertaken in partnership with Caltrans and the Alameda County Transportation Commission \u2014 marks the Bay Area&#8217;s first conversion of a general-purpose lane to a carpool lane. This is a key element of MTC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mtc.ca.gov\/operations\/programs-projects\/forward-commute-initiatives\/bay-bridge-forward\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bay Bridge Forward;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bay Bridge Forward&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Bay Bridge Forward<\/a> initiative to fund comparatively low-cost capital projects to help move more people in fewer cars through the Bay Bridge corridor; speed travel times and improve schedule reliability for bus riders; and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Beginning next Monday, April 20, drivers headed westbound on I-580 can expect to see crews installing concrete K-rails to protect workers and equipment from moving traffic. Because most work will take place during the overnight hours, drivers can expect night-time lane closures over the next few months. Once the project is completed this fall, use of the left lane in this segment of westbound I-580 will be restricted to buses and other vehicles with three or more occupants on weekdays from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">MTC is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"Cision\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"12\" width=\"12\" class=\"yf-lglytj loader\"\/> Cision      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">View original content to download multimedia:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/work-to-start-on-i-580-carpool-lane-extension-in-oakland-302742121.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/work-to-start-on-i-580-carpool-lane-extension-in-oakland-302742121.html;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/work-to-start-on-i-580-carpool-lane-extension-in-oakland-302742121.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay Bridge Forward Project Marks First Conversion of General-Purpose Lane SAN FRANCISCO, April 14, 2026 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0The Metropolitan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[116946,58406,116945,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-268289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-high-occupancy-vehicle","tag-metropolitan-transportation-commission","tag-mtc","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}