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Project History. Plan Bay Area, the 2013 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) for the nine-county Bay Area, called for a 550-mile regional network of express lanes to be completed by 2035. Plan Bay Area 2040, the 2017 RTP, includes the continued development of the express lane network to take advantage of available capacity in under-used carpool lanes and to improve traffic management and reliability on well-used carpool lanes. In 2014, Alameda County voters passed the Measure BB sales tax, which allocated funding for HOV/express lanes on I-680 from SR 237 to Alcosta Boulevard. On September 24, 2018, Caltrans approved a Project Study Report/Project Development Support (PSR/PDS) planning document to request approval for the proposed I-680 Express Lanes from SR 84 to Alcosta Boulevard Project to proceed to the Project Approval and Environmental Document (PA&ED) phase. The PSR/PDS evaluated the same alternatives—one Build Alternative and one No Build Alternative—that are discussed in this PR. HOV/express lanes exist or are under construction in the following locations of I-680 in the project vicinity: • South of the project area – An HOV/express lane exists on southbound I-680 from south of the SR 84 interchange to SR 237 in Milpitas, and an HOV/express lane is under construction on northbound I-680 from SR 262 (Mission Boulevard) to north of the SR 84 interchange (EA 4G050). • Within the project area – The SR 84 Expressway Widening and SR 84/I-680 Interchange Improvements project (EA 29763) proposes to extend the existing HOV/express lane on southbound I-680 northward by approximately 2 miles, from south of the SR 84 interchange to 0.8 mile north of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Road. • North of the project area – HOV/express lanes exist on I-680 from north of Alcosta Boulevard to Rudgear Road in the southbound direction and Livorna Road in the northbound direction (EA 3G950/3G910). Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA) is developing a project that extends the southbound HOV/express lane from Rudgear Road and Livorna Road to the Benicia-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Bridge. The proposed project would close the gap between existing and in-progress HOV/express lane projects directly to the north and south. Upon completion of the proposed project, I-680 would have continuous HOV/express lanes from SR 262 in Fremont to Livorna Road in Alamo in the northbound direction, and from Rudgear Road in Walnut Creek to SR 237 in Milpitas in the southbound direction. Future projects will provide for a continuous 48-mile express lane system by extending the I-680 northbound express ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ to SR 237, and the northbound and southbound HOV/express lanes to Marina Vista Avenue in Martinez, just south of the Benicia-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Bridge. In doing so, the project would contribute to the completion of the Bay Area Express Lanes network. Caltrans District 4 is implementing a programmed State Highway Operation and Protection Program (SHOPP) project to rehabilitate the I-680 pavement in southbound and northbound directions between ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Road and Alcosta Boulevard (04−ALA-680 PM M12.4/R21.9; EA 04-0J620). The I-680 Pavement Rehabilitation Project is currently in the design phase. The project team for the proposed HOV/express lanes project has been coordinating with the rehabilitation project team to minimize overlaps and throwaway costs. The project teams have held meetings from July 2019 to January 2020 and have agreed to potentially combine the southbound pavement rehabilitation work with the HOV/express lane project during construction. In October 2020, CTC approved a Project Change Request to down scope EA 0J620 to NB only and to program EA 0J624 as SB only to be combined with Phase 1 of the Project.