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Workers Memorial poster 2019

Caltrans will hold its annual statewide Fallen Workers Memorial at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 25, on the west steps of the State Capitol. The Workers Memorial is a time to remember those who lost their lives building, maintaining ...

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District 3 transportation management center

Every Caltrans regional district has its own traffic management center. None of those TMCs, however, is quite like District 3's. Its Rancho Cordova building is bedecked with high-tech. "We want everyone to have what we have, becau ...

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Michael Parks and Rena Francis lead the Negro National Anthem to help kick off a 90-minute program at the Black History Celebration.

An audience that eventually attained standing-room-only status attended the 2019 Black History Celebration at Caltrans headquarters in downtown Sacramento on Feb. 26. It was titled “Bridging Black Culture Across Generations.” The ...

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Ellen Greenberg, left, and Jeanie Ward-Waller chat beside a Sacramento Regional Transit bus during the “Practice Transit: SacRT Bus Demonstration” event in downtown Sacramento on March 12.

For years, Caltrans has been urging Californians to ease up on the gas pedal and to incorporate more walking, biking and public transportation into their lives. In March, many Caltrans' headquarters employees showed how the conce ...

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In mid-February, Caltrans crews from the Peddler Hill maintenance facility helped with a successful search-and-rescue effort. They teamed with the U.S. Forest Service, CHP and regional sheriff’s offices to find two snowbound women and a dog.

The selfless and tireless Caltrans District 10 workers at the Peddler Hill maintenance facility on State Route 88 in Amador County do much more than plow snow. For parts of three days in mid-February, that meant combining forces w ...

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Last month’s Innovation Station “active challenge” about how to improve internal communications was co-sponsored by, from left, George Akiyama, Deputy Director of Information Technology; Tamie McGowen, Assistant Deputy Director of Public Affairs; and Cris Rojas, Deputy Director of Administration.

When Innovation Station was re-launched in January, a few people took notice. A few thousand people, that is. By early March, nearly 4,000 Caltrans workers had logged onto the idea-sharing and challenge-solving internal website. ...

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This undated photograph of the old wagon trail that eventually became U.S. Highway 50 was taken at Horseshoe Bend

What was our first state highway? Like so many California stories, this one begins Jan. 24, 1848, in the hills east of Sacramento. The Gold Rush that followed James W. Marshall's discovery of sparkly flecks in Coloma, along the Am ...

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California Transportation Foundation logo

The California Transportation Foundation (CTF) is again proud to co-sponsor the annual Caltrans Workers Memorial Ceremony to be held on Thursday, April 25, at 11 a.m. on the west steps of the State Capitol.

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