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CalSTA secretary Toks Omishakin urges tech, low‑carbon materials and community partnerships
Summary
On the Infra Talk America podcast, California State Transportation Agency Secretary Toks Omishakin outlined a ‘core four’ agenda—safety, climate action, equity and economic prosperity—and urged wider use of digital construction tools, integrated transit payments and low‑carbon materials.
Toks Omishakin, secretary of the California State Transportation Agency, told Infra Talk America that California is pursuing a four‑part agenda centered on safety, climate action, equity and economic prosperity while accelerating technology adoption and material innovations across the state’s transportation system.
"The more we adapt these tools and infuse them into the process for our engineers and construction managers and consultants and contractors, the more we’re able to generate efficiencies and deliver the product to the people, sooner," Omishakin said, describing how digital construction tools can shorten project delivery timelines.
Omishakin and host Greg Neto discussed a range of technology efforts,…
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