CALTRANS NEWS

Director's Corner

Strategic Growth Plan Offers Opportunity to Rebuild California
It’s a new year, and fittingly we have a new opportunity to remake California’s transportation system into the nation’s finest. In the State of the State address earlier this month, Governor Schwarzenegger outlined... More

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Bike Station Project Opens in Long Beach
The first of its kind in the United States, Bike Station Long Beach opened its doors in 1996 as part of an 18-month national demonstration project. The City of Long Beach contracts with the Bike Station Coalition... More

D6 Employee Receives Prestigious Bronze Star Medal
Major Ahron Hakimi, a Senior Transportation Engineer in District 6, was presented recently with a Bronze Star Medal for his work in Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom... More

Harry Crabb Tunnel Opens in Roseville
After more than 2 years of construction, the City of Roseville now has a new and improved interchange at Douglas Blvd and Interstate 80... More

D7 Employee Designs Float for the Rose Bowl Parade
Yolanda Villalpando, of District 7’s Program and Project Management, has earned a special place in the history of Pasadena’s 2006 Rose Bowl Parade... More

Gary Winters, Long Time Caltrans Environmental Specialist, Dies at 63
A funeral service was held Dec. 20 in Sacramento for Gary Winters, Caltrans’ first environmental specialist, who later served as Chief of the Division of Environmental Analysis between 2000 and his retirement in February 2005... More

Court Impacts Department's DBE Program
The Department’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program has for years increased the level of participation of disadvantaged businesses in all federal aid contracts. However, a recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals... More

California Transportation Foundation Update

The California Transportation Foundation’s (CTF) 12th Annual Transportation Education Symposium was held November 10-11 at Asilomar. During the symposium, 34 students... Read More

Health and Wellness

January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month
Approximately 2.2. million Americans age 40 and older have glaucoma. Half of these individuals are unaware they have a potentially blinding disease because they have no symptoms ... Read More

Giving the Gift of Life
The gift of life is the most precious present one can give to another person. No one knows this more than Dale Sievert, Maintenance Area Superintendent in District 11, and his wife Mary... Read More

Exams and Recruitment

Exam Listing
Associate Environmental Planner (Open)
Automotive Mechanic (Open)
Caltrans Electronic specialist (Repair Laboratory) (Open)
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Retirements

The following Caltrans employees retired in December 2005 and retirement certificates were... Read More

Hat's Off

Dear Caltrans Director:
Over the last few days, northern California has had to deal with an enormous storm front and I wanted to write and thank you for everything you have done to help us stay safe on the roads... More

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