{"id":282795,"date":"2026-04-23T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282795\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:12:10","slug":"caltrans-and-mtc-to-hold-greenwashing-panel-for-north-bay-freeway-widening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282795\/","title":{"rendered":"Caltrans and MTC to Hold Greenwashing Panel for North Bay Freeway Widening"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of SF Climate Week, the Bay Area Metro Center is hosting a panel discussion on Friday to further gaslight the public<\/a> into thinking the planned $500 million widening of SR 37 through the North Bay is actually an environmental project<\/a>. Caltrans and its aligned agencies are calling the widening the \u201cResilient SR 37 Program.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a highway expansion through a sensitive\u00a0salt marsh habitat,\u201d explained TransForm\u2019s Zack Deutsch-Gross<\/a> in an email to Streetsblog. \u201cLast year\u00a0the Metropolitan Transportation Commission secured a\u00a0legislative<\/a>\u00a0loophole<\/a>\u00a0to ignore special protections for endangered species on the corridor.\u201d<\/p>\n

As previously reported<\/a>, this is a widening that, in addition to being horrific for the environment, will end up underwater in a couple of decades despite the work. \u201cSR 37 already floods today, we\u2019re talking about a $500 temporary project that will be underwater by 2050 (2040 in earlier projections),\u201d added Deutsch-Gross. \u201cThe investments made in the interim project do not contribute to the long-term project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Transform put together this short video to encapsulate the folly of Caltrans and MTC moving forward with this boondoggle:<\/p>\n

\u201cMTC is hosting a session as part of SF Climate Week called\u00a0Resilient SR 37 Program \u2013 An Innovative Approach to Coastal Resilience<\/a>\u00a0on Friday,\u201d wrote TransForm\u2019s Laura McCamy. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to spread the word about this environmental gaslighting from Caltrans and MTC.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"SR-37. The state is trying to widen this to four lanes. Image: Google Maps<\/p>\n

Indeed, the documentation all around this project<\/a> is saturated with terminology such as \u201cpromoting restoration\u201d and \u201cimproving habitat\u201d for critters such as the \u201csalt marsh harvest mouse\u201d (yes, that\u2019s really in there<\/a>). Caltrans and its partners try really hard to bury what this really is, but facts are ultimately facts. Deep in the documents, for example<\/a>, Caltrans admits it is also\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026adding an additional travel lane in each direction between Sears Point and Mare Island \u2014 where there is now just a single lane in each direction<\/p>\n

In other words, they\u2019re going to double the width of 11 miles of the road, pure and simple.<\/p>\n

\u201cHighway widening is never a climate solution. It\u2019s disappointing\u00a0to see SF Climate week participate in greenwashing this highway boondoggle that will actively contribute to the climate\u00a0crisis,\u201d said Deutsch-Gross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of SF Climate Week, the Bay Area Metro Center is hosting a panel discussion on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[109921,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-282795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-promoted","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-sf","13":"tag-sf-headlines","14":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282795","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=282795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}