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No matter how ambitious, all transportation initiatives start off as an idea. Whether widening a state highway, relocating an on-ramp, creating a toll road, or initiating and operating transit systems, you will need to navigate this idea through a complex series of political, policy, funding, and design challenges. 

With decades of public and private sector engineering, administration and land development expertise, the team at Gray-Bowen-Scott have helped public and private sector clients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California transform transportation ideas into reality.

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Funding
Strategies

Whatever the need, Gray-Bowen-Scott has a track record of developing successful strategies that secure funds to get projects built.

Funding Strategies

Understanding needs and building consensus enables Gray-Bowen-Scott to help our clients formulate individual transportation project funding strategies. Our team has extensive experience and knowledge of the many funding sources available to deliver projects. We know how to integrate project funding sources and monitor the delivery and reporting requirements along the way. We're experienced with the entire project delivery process and can help you take a project from concept through construction and into operation. Over the years, we have assisted many agencies in completing application materials for grant funds, as well as develop higher-level funding strategies for large projects and corridors.

Our successful track record includes the fourth bore of the Caldecott Tunnel project. Midway through the environmental review phase, the funding was at risk due to intense restrictions. In response, Gray-Bowen-Scott developed a Memorandum of Understanding between the three partners on the project – CCTA, Caltrans, and Alameda County Congestion Management Agency. We structured a full funding plan, including Recovery Act funds, got them approved, and kept the project moving forward to completion. We also helped secure funding for the East Contra Costa State Route 4 Widening Project from more than 11 federal, state, and local sources. Whatever the need, we have a track record of developing successful strategies that secure the funds to get projects built.

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Permits &
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Our success is attributed to our understanding of the complexities of the Caltrans process and requirements, and to our ability to get an issue to the appropriate decision-makers in a timely manner.

Permits & Approvals

Proper authorization is needed to complete any project, whether it's approval of funds or permission to work on another's property. Gray-Bowen-Scott has made the securing and maintaining of project authorizations a cornerstone of our business for the last three decades.

What separates Gray-Bowen-Scott from other firms is our focus on the project approval and delivery process. We help our public and private clients secure what they really want and need – project definition, funding and approvals.

Private development projects often include construction plans for a shoring system that will utilize temporary tiebacks and tower cranes in the State’s right of way. Encroachment permits for these uses are considered by Caltrans to be non-conventional, and technically complex permit applications. Before Caltrans issued Statewide policies for temporary tieback and tower crane encroachments in 2016 and 2017, Caltrans was not accepting applications for such uses. Even so, Gray-Bowen-Scott was able to secure encroachment permits for our clients during the pre-policy period. To date, we have secured dozens of permits for our clients.

Our staff has strong working relationships with Caltrans, as well as the California Transportation Commission (CTC) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). We know who to talk to and when to talk to them.

We've secured permits and approvals for mega-projects such as the SR 4 Corridor in Contra Costa and the SR 237 HOV/HOT lanes in Santa Clara County.

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Agency Administration

Well-qualified staff in the right positions produce cost-effective administration. Gray-Bowen-Scott is well-versed in staffing small agencies and providing extension of staff services to larger agencies.

Agency Administration

Well-qualified staff in the right positions yield cost-effective administration solutions. Gray-Bowen-Scott provides valuable agency administration and extension-of-staff services for several transportation agencies around the greater Bay Area. We are experienced at establishing and managing Transportation Management Associations (TMA’s) in partnership with cities, businesses, and residents, serving millions of passengers every year.

The TMA programs we manage help our member employers meet their trip reduction goals and limit traffic in the area. We have created innovative partnerships with ride-share companies and carpool apps to integrate various mobility options to encourage riders to leave their cars at home. Two TMA’s we serve in the Bay Area are the Emeryville Transportation Management Association, which provides the Emery-Go-Round shuttle service in Emeryville, and the Mountain View Transportation Management Association, providing the MVgo shuttle in Mountain View. We are the Executive Director of these two TMA’s and we can help you establish and manage your TMA.

In addition to TMA’s, we have provided administration services to nearly every Bay Area Self-Help County Transportation Agency and County Congestion Management Agency, helping them achieve their objectives in a timely and cost-effective manner. Our staff currently serves as Executive Director of Transportation Partnership and Cooperation (TRANSPAC), playing an essential role in the future of transportation projects and programs in Central Contra Costa County, as well as management oversight for current programs.

The expertise of our engineering and administrative staff makes Gray-Bowen-Scott uniquely qualified to serve local agencies.

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Program & Project Management

Gray-Bowen-Scott provides leadership to our clients, applying decades of delivery experience and knowledge to proactively manage scope, costs, and schedules to overcome the unique challenges facing every project.

Program & Project Management

Gray-Bowen-Scott provides strategic program and project management services to a variety of public and private clients, including program and project controls, funds management, administration of Federal and State grants, and local funds.

We advise and assist clients on the Caltrans Project Development process working closely with the Department to facilitate the various stages of project approval. We specialize in serving our clients while working in close association with civil, traffic and environmental firms, and agencies such as the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), California Transportation Commission (CTC) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The breadth of our projects ranges from high-profile highways, freeways, HOV/HOT lanes, and intermodal transit facilities to bicycle/pedestrian trails. Gray-Bowen-Scott values relationships developed through years of working closely with multiple stakeholders on complex projects while building trust and consensus to bring about innovative solutions.

Gray-Bowen-Scott helps clients successfully implement streamlined business processes for managing capital projects including the use of innovative information management technology – database and software tools to automate work-flow processes, data and document management, and integration.

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Featured Transportation Projects

City of Hercules Regional Intermodal Transit Center

City of Hercules Regional Intermodal Transit Center

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East Bay Regional Park District TIGER II Grant / East Bay Pedestrian and Bicycle Network

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ETMA: Emery Go-Round

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MTMA: MVGo

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San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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San Mateo County US-101 Managed Lanes

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Adobe North Tower, San Jose

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I-680 Contra Costa County Express Lanes

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Regardless of the scope or magnitude of the project or program, we have demonstrated the ability to assist our clients and to resolve critical delivery issues in a timely fashion to get their important programs and projects DELIVERED.

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All transportation initiatives start off as an idea. We help transform that idea into reality. Contact us today for a free consultation.

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