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Biking While Black Guide Delivers Joyful Inspiration
All images from Reimagine: Biking While Black. Artwork by Otis Design Lab. Used with permission.
The first thing that hits you when you leaf through Reimagine: Biking While Black | A Roadmap to Justice and Joy, a guide created to accompany two Biking While Black short movies, is the joy. From the colorful design to the inspiring interviews with bike advocates to the extensive list of resources, the guide radiates positivity and possibility. But it doesn’t shy away from hard truths and serious topics, including the disproportionate rate at which Black Angelenos are killed by traffic violence and survey data showing the personal impact of our unequal streets. It’s an essential guide for advocates in search of inspiration and information.
We spoke with Yolanda Davis-Overstreet, a mobility justice strategist and member of CalBike’s Board of Directors, who directed and co-produced the Biking While Black films and developed the new guide. We spoke with her about the impact of the films, what she hopes the guide will accomplish, and the need to pay BIPOC advocates for the critical work they do.
Biking While Black guide builds the movement
CalBike screened the first Biking While Black movie at our 2022 California Bicycle Summit to an enthusiastic audience. The second movie expands on the first, and the new Reimagine guidebook offers another tool for advocates.
Davis-Overstreet says the films have brought people together. “The power of the film is we’ve created a platform for narrative sharing,” she says. She calls the new guide a “Green Book on steroids,” saying, “I hope people will be able to see themselves in this guide.”
She hopes the guide will affirm for people that what feels like injustice is injustice and help people believe in themselves.
“I think a lot of us are looking for things to do and things to be involved in,” Davis-Overstreet says, and the guidebook widens the range of what’s possible. The guide includes data and statistics, a glossary, and a survey of people’s experiences of biking while Black. It’s also got practical information in an easy-to-digest format, like the ABC bike check before you ride and a “Know Your Rights” page that walks through what to do if stopped by the police. It also includes an extensive list of biking and social justice events and organizations, laying out options for those who want to get more involved.
Reimagining advocacy
“It’s a play on words because the meaning is so much deeper,” Davis-Overstreet says of the “Reimagine” in the title of the guide. She sees it as “new ways of imagining Black and Brown lives” and “the importance of joy as opposed to trauma.”
The Biking While Black movement embodies a reimagination of people’s roles in their communities and creates a roadmap to tap into and remove threats to Black mobility in America, including police violence. “It’s a civil rights movement,” she says. “We’re educating the people in our committees and our youth because we don’t adequately educate kids in school on this topic.”
The goal is to improve parts of our communities that have been disenfranchised for decades. Lifting those areas up will lift whole communities and whole cities.
How to sustain the people who power the transportation justice movement
“The work is becoming more sustainable,” Davis-Overstreet says, but there’s still more the bike advocacy movement and transportation departments can do to pay BIPOC advocates for their time and efforts rather than expecting them to do free emotional labor.
Hiring more Black advocates, engineers, and planners is a form of reparation. Davis-Overstreet calls it “restorative justice work to acknowledge BIPOC livelihoods,” saying, “We are literally working and uplifting to sustain communities.”
The Reimagine guide ends with suggested resources to read and watch, including wellness apps and the book “Rest Is Resistance.” She notes that rest and self-care are essential to finding joy, something overworked advocates sometimes need to be reminded of.
The next step for Davis-Overstreet is potentially creating a curriculum for schools from middle school through college. She has experienced the transformative power of events like the bike clinic she created for her daughter’s school, which turned the principal into an advocate and helped students see new ways to get around their neighborhood and have agency in their mobility.
2023 Legislative Recap: Big Wins for Active Transportation Slate
Of the bills CalBike supported that made it to the governor’s desk, six were signed into law, and two were vetoed. Several active transportation measures were put on hold before the end of the legislative session, becoming two-year bills, and some didn’t make it out of legislative committees.
Overall, it was not a good year for decriminalization measures that sought to bring more equity to the enforcement of minor infractions and fare evasion. The budget shortfall unfortunately delayed measures such as the proposal to give free transit passes to students, but we still had some critical funding wins for active transportation despite the tight purse strings.
Here’s the full recap of bills CalBike supported and monitored in the 2023 legislative session.
6 bills signed into law
Governor Gavin Newsom signed six bills CalBike championed that will make active transportation safer.
- Daylighting to Save Lives (AB 413, Lee): This law creates a statewide standard of a 20-foot setback for car parking from marked and unmarked crosswalks. The measure gives communities the flexibility to set shorter or longer clearances based on the speed of the street. The extra visibility will help prevent collisions between drivers and pedestrians, reducing the horrendous toll on our roadways. The next task for advocates is to make sure local governments know about the law and add signage and curb painting to inform drivers.
- Caltrans Freeway Data (SB 695, Gonzalez): As the recent firing of Jeanie Ward-Waller showed, Caltrans needs more oversight. SB 695 requires the agency to provide data on its projects in a public portal and present them at California Transportation Commission meetings. CalBike has struggled to get Caltrans data; information on how many miles are under the agency’s management and how many miles it’s adding to the freeway system, among other things, will help us understand where transportation dollars are going and better focus our advocacy.
- Deadly Oversized Cars (AB 251, Ward): The increase in the size of SUVs and light trucks has coincided with a rise in pedestrian fatalities. This will study the impact of these bloated vehicles on traffic deaths and injuries and the extra wear and tear on California’s roadways. The study will recommend whether the state should levy an additional fee for oversized vehicles.
- Automated Speed Enforcement Pilot (AB 645, Friedman): Perseverance delivered a big victory, getting a pilot for automated speed enforcement across the finish line after several years of setbacks for this measure. The pilot will allow six cities to use cameras to issue speeding tickets. Cameras (if placed equitably) eliminate racial bias in speed enforcement. Automating enforcement also allows cities to crack down on speeding continuously, providing a consistent disincentive to drive at dangerous speeds.
- Cars Blocking Bike Lanes (AB 361, Ward): Cities can now install forward-facing parking control devices on city-owned parking enforcement vehicles for the purpose of video imaging parking violations occurring in bicycle lanes. This will give communities greater capacity to ensure that bike infrastructure isn’t illegally repurposed as car storage.
- Tenancy & Micromobility (SB 712, Portantino): Landlords will no longer be allowed to prevent tenants from owning a personal micromobility device, such as a scooter or bike, or from storing that device in their dwelling unit unless the landlord provides secure, long-term storage for those devices.
2 new laws we’re watching
Two of the active transportation bills the governor signed were on CalBike’s watch list of bills we weren’t opposing but weren’t actively supporting. We’ll be keeping an eye on these new laws to pressure agencies to implement them in ways that support rather than hinder people getting around by bike.
- Bike Czar at Caltrans (SB 538, Portantino): We’re concerned this position could be greenwashing rather than moving Caltrans toward bike-friendly project designs. Ward-Waller’s firing underscores that concern, but maybe the high-profile blowback from that decision will force the agency to take active transportation more seriously. CalBike will keep an eye on this position and advocate for the position to have real power to make change at Caltrans.
- E-Bike Safety Study (SB 381, Min): Like much of the discussion of e-bike safety lately, this measure is a double-edged sword. If the study produces information on how to keep e-bike riders and all people on bikes safer on our streets, it could be a positive measure. However, if the study focuses narrowly on e-bikes without considering unsafe road conditions that lead to deadly crashes, it may not lead to helpful insights. We hope to have opportunities to weigh in on the implementation of this measure to ensure it helps, not hurts, people who get around by bike.
2 vetoes
Governor Newsom nixed the two decriminalization bills that made it through the legislature, displaying a bias toward listening to the voices of law enforcement groups rather than transportation justice advocates or evidence of what is and isn’t effective at crime prevention.
Safe Passage for Bikes (AB 825, Bryan)
In an ideal world, protected, connected bikeways would allow people to get around every California community by bike. Unfortunately, that’s not the world we live in, and unless our state radically changes its transportation funding priorities, we won’t have enough safe bike infrastructure for many years. In the meantime, the Safe Passage for Bikes Bill would have let people on bikes, traveling around 10 mph, share the sidewalk with people walking. While there were valid concerns for pedestrian safety, we felt the bill addressed those. With this veto, the governor has condemned people on bikes to risk their lives sharing the street with speeding, 2-ton vehicles or risk a ticket (and being racially profiled) for riding on the sidewalk. This is a loss for equitable access to our streets and freedom from harassment for people of color, who are mostly likely to be stopped by police.
The state is not guaranteeing safe passage for bikes throughout California, but local leaders can still make this a reality by decriminalizing sidewalk riding in their communities or instructing police not to ticket people on bikes where the sidewalk is the safest alternative.
Decriminalize Transit Fare Evasion (AB 819, Bryan)
AB 819 would have removed criminal penalties for people with repeat tickets for failing to pay for their transit rides. While we want transit agencies to have the funding they need to provide reliable service, we shouldn’t fund that on the backs of people unable to pay the fare. Most fare evasion tickets go unpaid, and jail time is no solution. Providers don’t have to pursue criminal penalties for fare evasion, and some California transit agencies have already eliminated it. We hope more will follow suit.
Budget wins for active transportation in a lean fiscal year
Because of the projected budget shortfall, the governor’s initial budget cut $500 million from active transportation funding. CalBike rallied our supporters to ask the legislature to restore these critical funds, and our representatives listened. The final budget restored all the funding, and, as a result, the Active Transportation Program was able to greenlight more worthy projects to make biking and walking safer.
In addition, a funding trailer bill allocated $80 million to the California Air Resources Board for clean transportation programs. CARB’s draft budget puts $18 million of that amount toward more e-bike incentives. Thanks to CalBike supporters who emailed CARB in support of this allocation. It still needs board approval before it’s final, and we’ll let the CARB Board of Directors know this measure has our strong support.
The same budget trailer bill also included funding for the Transit Transformation Task Force (AB 761, Friedman), which will develop policies to grow transit ridership and improve the transit experience for all users.
As we celebrate these wins, we’re already working on our budget priorities for 2024. Once again, we’ll be asking the state to shift more transportation spending from freeway expansion to Complete Streets and other projects that support the transition to the greenest transportation options: biking, walking, and public transit.
4 two-year bills
Four bills CalBike supported became two-year bills. These bills need to be out of committee by January 2024 and have another chance to become law in the next legislative session.
- Regional Prioritization for Clean Transportation (AB 6, Friedman): Requires regional transportation agencies to prioritize and fund transportation projects that significantly contribute toward regional and state climate goals
- Project Selection Process (AB 7, Friedman): Requires state transportation agencies to incorporate environmental and equity principles into their project selection process
- Bicycle Safety Stop (AB 73, Boerner Horvath): Legalizes stop-as-yield for bike riders aged 18 or older
- Free Transit for Youth (AB 610, Holden): Establishes pilot program that provides grants to transit agencies for the costs of creating and implementing free youth transit passes to persons attending certain educational institutions
6 bills that didn’t make it
Good ideas sometimes take more than one try to make it into law. The process often involves revising the provisions of a bill in consultation with stakeholders and the governor’s office. In some cases, it’s a question of timing and the political climate.
RIP for six excellent bills that didn’t make it out of the legislature. May they rise again.
- The Stop Baseless Searches Bill (AB 93, Bryan) would have curtailed baseless searches of people biking and driving. Protecting people from police harassment is essential to creating safe streets, and we hope this measure returns in some form in the future.
- The Stop Pretextual Policing Bill (SB 50, Bradford) would have limited police from stopping drivers and people on bikes for low-level infractions. It would have prevented police from stopping people on bikes solely for minor infractions such as riding on the sidewalk or riding without a light. Black and Brown bike riders are disproportionately stopped by police, so this would have been a big step forward for equitable streets.
- The Equity-First Transportation Funding Act (AB 1525, Bonta) would have prioritized transportation funding for historically underserved communities. It’s a good way to begin to correct the harms of decades of underfunded streets and punitive urban planning.
- Highway Pilot Projects to Reduce Emissions (AB 981, Friedman) would have required Caltrans to complete 10 pilot highway maintenance and rehabilitation demonstration projects that would have resulted in significantly reduced emissions of greenhouse gases.
- California Bike Smart Safety Handbook (AB 1188, Boerner) would have created a requirement for the DMV to write a bicycle handbook. It died in Appropriations.
- No More Warrants for Infractions (AB 1266, Kalra) was a bill to eliminate the use of bench warrants for minor infractions. It would have reduced the potential for violence and police overreaction at traffic stops.
Green Light for Automated Speed Enforcement
For Immediate Release: 10/17/23
Jared Sanchez, Policy Director, CalBike, (714) 262-0921, Jared@CalBike.org
Automated Vehicle Speed Enforcement Bill Signed into Law
SACRAMENTO – CalBike commends Governor Gavin Newsom for signing (AB 645, Friedman), Automated Speed Enforcement, into law.
“Everyone knows that speed is a major factor in traffic collisions that result in fatalities or injuries on California streets,” said Jared Sanchez, policy director of CalBike. “Automated speed enforcement is a proven deterrent to speeding in other states, and it’s crucial to making our streets safer since speed is a major factor in collisions with serious injuries and fatalities.”
The Automated Speed Enforcement Bill establishes an automated speed safety pilot program in six jurisdictions: Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, Long Beach, and San Francisco. Cities must give 30-day notice before the program starts, and tickets issued for the first 60 days will be warnings only, with no fines. The pilot cities are all eager to participate.
Intersection Daylighting Becomes California Law
For Immediate Release: 10/10/23
Contact:
Marc Vukcevich, Director of State Policy, Streets for All, (949) 259-3674, marc@streetsforall.org
Jared Sanchez, Policy Director, CalBike, (714) 262-0921, Jared@CalBike.org
Governor Newsom Signs Crosswalk Daylighting Bill
SACRAMENTO – Governor Newsom has signed the Daylighting Saves Lives Bill into law (AB 413, Lee). This law will prohibit stopping, standing, or parking a vehicle within 20 feet of any unmarked or marked crosswalk to increase visibility and reduce potentially lethal collisions. Intersections are the most common sites of collisions involving people walking and biking.
When drivers park cars and trucks right up to a crosswalk line, it reduces visibility for vehicles approaching the crosswalk. Drivers are more likely to hit people walking or biking when they have less time to see an approaching person and yield the right of way. Children are particularly vulnerable because they’re shorter and more likely to be invisible behind a parked car. And with the increase in size and height of many trucks and SUVs, even adults are vulnerable to collisions at low-visibility intersections.
“The rising rate of pedestrian fatalities is unacceptable,” said CalBike policy director Jared Sanchez. “Daylighting is an inexpensive and effective way for California to begin to reduce that trend. CalBike applauds Governor Newsom for signing AB 413.”
“Streets For All is proud that the Governor has made pedestrian safety a priority with his signature of AB 413. We thank him and Assemblymember Lee for taking steps to address the forty-year high of pedestrian deaths,” said Marc Vukcevich, Director of State Policy at Streets For All.
Governor Vetoes Safe Passage for Bikes
For Immediate Release: 10/10/23
Contact: Jared Sanchez, CalBike (714) 262-0921, Jared@CalBike.org
Governor Newsom Vetoes AB 825 Safe Passage for Bikes Bill
SACRAMENTO – The Safe Passage for Bikes Bill (AB 825, Bryan) would have allowed people to ride bikes on sidewalks adjacent to streets that do not include a Class I, Class II, or Class IV bikeway. By vetoing this crucial bill, Governor Gavin Newsom has condemned people who get around by bike to mix with potentially lethal car and truck traffic rather than finding safe haven on sidewalks.
“Is sidewalk riding ideal? No,” said Jared Sanchez, policy director for CalBike. “In a perfect world, most streets would be Complete Streets, with safe facilities for all modes of transportation. But that’s not the reality today, and it will take years to transform every dangerous roadway in California into a safe route for biking. In the meantime, people on bikes must, at times, travel on streets with fast traffic and no bike lanes. By vetoing this bill, the governor has taken an action that will lead to more deaths and injuries of people on bikes.”
While CalBike agrees with the governor’s assertion in his veto statement that building better bike infrastructure is the best way to provide safe spaces for people who ride bikes and that the state has moved in the right direction to create more protected and connected bikeways, infrastructure for safe biking remains woefully inadequate.
It’s ironic that the governor to relies on Caltrans’ efforts to build Complete Streets when that agency has just fired the deputy director in charge of multimodal planning as she prepared to call it out on violating its own policies. Clearly, our state agencies aren’t doing enough to support active transportation. CalBike regrets the governor’s decision to veto an interim measure that would have provided safe passage for bikes while we work to build more bikeways.
California has to invest much more in Complete Streets to meet the demand for safe passage for bikes. We need dedicated funding for Complete Streets improvements on Caltrans-controlled roadways so Californians have more low- and no-carbon transportation options and greater mobility.
AB 825 would have been a step toward ending harassment of people on bikes
As an excellent LA Times investigation showed, police disproportionately target people on bikes, particularly Black and Latino men, stopping them for small infractions and then subjecting them to invasive searches. Disadvantaged neighborhoods are more likely to lack safe bikeways, forcing people to ride on sidewalks. Decriminalizing sidewalk riding would have not only protected bike riders from traffic violence, it would also have reduced harm to vulnerable populations from police encounters that can sometimes be deadly.
Governor Approves Bill to Study Impacts of Heavy Vechicles
For Immediate Release: 10/10/23
Contact: Jared Sanchez, CalBike (714) 262-0921, Jared@CalBike.org
Governor Signs Bill to Study Safety Impacts of SUVs and Light Trucks
SACRAMENTO – Governor Newsom has signed AB 251 (Ward), the Deadly Oversized Cars Bill, which will convene a task force to study the relationship between vehicle weight and injuries to people biking and walking and assess the costs and benefits of imposing a passenger vehicle weight fee.
“AB 251’s opponents in the legislature cynically called this bill a ‘Family Tax,’ because families are more likely to drive SUVs and minivans,” said Jared Sanchez, policy director for CalBike. “Statistics on these heavy vehicles show that the elderly and children are far more likely to die after being struck by one of these oversized vehicles. Those people have families, too. AB 251 will help understand and hopefully reverse the monster vehicle arms race currently playing out on California’s streets and highways.”
Governor Signs Bill to Bring Transparency to Caltrans
For Immediate Release: 10/9/23
Contact: Jared Sanchez, CalBike (714) 262-0921, Jared@CalBike.org
Gov. Newsom Signs Caltrans Freeway Data Bill into Law
SACRAMENTO – Governor Newsom has signed SB 695 (Gonzalez) into law. This bill, supported by CalBike, will increase data transparency by adding requirements to the CA Vehicle Code that Caltrans must prepare and make available information and data about activities on the state highway system on a public website.
Specifically, SB 695 will require Caltrans, beginning January 1, 2026, to annually prepare and make available on its internet website information and data about projects on the state highway system from the prior fiscal year, as specified, and to present this information and data to the California Transportation Commission at a regularly scheduled commission meeting on or before April 1 of each year.
Public oversight of Caltrans projects is crucial for Californians. Caltrans has a history of ignoring the wishes of state legislators and the public. The recent firing of Caltrans deputy director Jeanie Ward-Waller as she was preparing to make a whistleblower complaint shows that SB 695 is a necessary step to reigning in a rogue agency.
“Recent staffing controversies have shown Caltrans’ resistance to adapting California transportation to address the climate crisis,” said Jared Sanchez, policy director of CalBike. “This new public data portal will help Californians understand where our money is going and enable the public oversight needed to help the old Department of Highways become the modern transportation agency California needs.”
Data to be required on the Caltrans Freeway Data portal:
- Total lane miles in the state highway system.
- New total lane miles added to the state highway system.
- Breakdown of the number of miles added by type, including, but not limited to, general purpose lanes, auxiliary lanes, managed lanes, including high-occupancy vehicle lanes, and interchanges, as well as information on improvements to interchanges.
- A project description of each project that added lane miles to the state highway system.
- The number of miles of the state highway system that were relinquished.
- The number of miles of the state highway system that were converted from a general purpose lane to a managed lane, including a high-occupancy vehicle lane, and a high-occupancy vehicle lane to a high-occupancy toll lane or other type of lane.
- The number of homes and businesses that were relocated due to the acquisition of rights-of-way for the new lane miles on the state highway system.
- The number of new bike lane miles added to state highways, broken down by Class I, Class II, Class III, and Class IV.
- The number of new sidewalk miles added to state highways and the number of existing sidewalks that were reconstructed to improve accessibility and the safety of pedestrians.
Governor Vetos Fare Evasion Decriminalization
For Immediate Release: 10/9/23
Contact: Jared Sanchez, CalBike (714) 262-0921, Jared@CalBike.org
Governor Newsom Vetoes Bill to Decriminalize Transit Fare Evasion
SACRAMENTO – Governor Newsom has vetoed (AB 819, Bryan), which would have removed criminal penalties for transit fare evasion while leaving fines in place. The veto leaves it as a misdemeanor classification, leading to possible jail time for failing to pay a $2.00 fare.
CalBike strongly disagrees with Governor Gavin Newsom’s position and that of transit agencies that opposed this measure. In his veto statement, the governor said, “According to one operator, the bulk of the crimes committed in their system are committed by people who have not paid a fare. I cannot take an action to reduce penalties on fare evasion that could, in turn, contribute to an increase in crime on transit.”
The governor assumes that criminal penalties deter fare evasion when, in reality, many people fail to pay transit fares because of a lack of funds or running to catch a bus. Misdemeanor charges for fare evasion can result in a criminal record, adding to a cycle of poverty and underemployment.
Other laws are already in place to charge people who commit crimes on public transit. Criminalizing fare evasion is an example of the failed “broken windows” model of crime prevention, which does not deter crime but does victimize already marginalized populations.
“Fare evasion enforcement is often aimed at California’s communities of color while speeders on our highways are rarely cited,” said Jared Sanchez, policy director of CalBike. “AB 819 would have been a step in the right direction to end the criminalization of people just trying to get where they need to go.”
Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as an infraction and, subsequently, as a misdemeanor, for an adult to evade payment of a fare of a public transportation system. Under existing law, a third or subsequent violation of fare evasion “… is a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of up to $400 or by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of not more than 90 days, or both.”
Response to Caltrans Firing Jeanie Ward-Waller
For Immediate Release: 10/9/23
Contact: Kendra Ramsey, CalBike, (707) 469-3387, kendra@calbike.org
CalBike Statement on Caltrans Firing of Active Mobility Expert
Caltrans Must Serve All Californians, Not Just People in Cars
Re: Caltrans to Ward-Waller: Our way or the highway – Politico 10/3/23
SACRAMENTO – In her role as Deputy Director of Planning and Modal Programs, former CalBike policy director Jeanie Ward-Waller was instrumental in moving Caltrans toward investments in transportation infrastructure that supports low-carbon mobility options for all Californians, and divesting from traffic-inducing practices and infrastructure. CalBike is disappointed that Caltrans removed Ward-Waller from this post, despite her record of positive achievements, including helping the agency draft its Complete Streets policy.
“Jeanie is a tireless advocate for better biking and walking infrastructure,” said CalBike executive director Kendra Ramsey. “Her firing is a huge loss for Caltrans, for climate justice, and for anyone who cares about creating safer roadways in California.”
As the agency responsible for 50,000 miles of roadways–almost 20% of which serve as local streets–Caltrans plays an enormous role in making roads in California safe places for people to bike and walk. The agency is also tasked with moving our transportation network away from car dependency to support the state’s climate change goals. But as the recent firing of the person responsible for keeping Caltrans on track with those goals shows, the agency that used to be called the Department of Highways still sees its primary role as increasing California’s highway capacity, working against the transition to a green transportation future.
California Must Invest in Complete Streets
It is a critical time for transportation in California; vulnerable road users are subject to an epidemic of traffic violence, and our state is not advancing quickly enough toward viable low-carbon transportation options. Now more than ever, Caltrans must be a leader in fostering Complete Streets throughout the state and rebuilding our transportation networks to support safe, accessible, and convenient options for walking, bicycling, and taking transit.
At the same time, it’s critical to stop expanding freeways. Decades of research confirm that increased highway capacity induces more driving, and California and the world must invest in alternatives to transport goods and people and divest from polluting roadways that fracture communities and habitats. Caltrans removed Ward-Waller from her post after she raised concerns that pavement rehabilitation funds were being used for roadway widening. This underscores the disconnect between Caltrans practices and California’s stated commitment to climate-friendly transportation policies.
What CalBike is Doing
CalBike worked to institutionalize a commitment to supporting active transportation at Caltrans when it sponsored the Complete Streets Bill in 2019, which would have mandated a more transparent process at the agency and more Complete Streets. Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the bill citing the direction of new leadership, and Caltrans vowed to do better. While we have seen some improvement, Ward-Waller’s firing is an ominous sign that the agency’s priorities and vision remain car-centric.
CalBike is digging into how well Caltrans has lived up to its promises to consider the needs of people who bike and walk, and we expect to start releasing data this winter as we prepare a full report.
CalBike is also working with our partners in local and regional agencies as well as local and regional advocates to demand that Caltrans interchanges be subject to new Complete Streets design guidance under Design Information Bulletin (DIB) 94. We applaud the governor for signing SB 695, which will bring more transparency to Caltrans projects, but that’s just the first step.
CalBike remains committed to holding Caltrans accountable for honoring the will of the legislature to protect the climate and the safety of people biking and walking. California needs a moratorium on highway expansions and a strong commitment to creating Complete Streets that make biking and walking safe and appealing.