In the budget crunch in 2024, the governor chose to cut the tiny, underfunded Active Transportation Program (ATP) despite an influx of federal funding to fill out California’s transportation budget. The ATP funds dozens of biking and walking infrastructure projects across California. Because of these cuts, the latest cycle was able to give grants to just 13 projects.
CalBike and our allies are campaigning to restore the $400 million promised to the ATP that was clawed back. This will allow California communities to build safe, connected bikeways, enhanced sidewalks and intersections, and many other Complete Streets projects that make our shared roadways safer for everyone, especially people not traveling by car.
With the money it takes to build just a few linear miles of new freeway, we can build out whole connected, protected bike networks, giving people of all ages safe routes to school, work, shopping, and more.
We are in the hottest year on record because every year is hotter than the last, and yet when it came time to find places to cut spending in 2024, the governor took $400 million from the tiny Active Transportation Program, the only transportation spending fully dedicated to biking and walking infrastructure, while cutting zero dollars from expensive freeway boondoggles. It’s time to reverse the trend.
Take action now: tell your elected representatives to give back the $400 million taken from the ATP.
Invest in Complete Streets: Prioritize new safe, accessible, and equitable infrastructure that makes biking, walking, and micromobility convenient and appealing. Invest in safe roadways for all transportation modes, bringing us closer to Vision Zero and our ambitious climate goals.
Invest in Just Streets: We’re expanding the definition of a Complete Street to mean one where people of all identities and bodies are safe from police harassment. To accomplish this, we must decriminalize biking and walking, including bikes treating stop signs as yields—often used in biased, pretextual policing—to make our complete streets safe for all identities and bodies. Remove discriminatory barriers based on class, race, gender, age, ability, and other identities and invest in communities where the safety of all residents is paramount.
Invest in Complete Communities: No more bike lanes to nowhere. Invest in connected bikeways and pedestrian paths that provide safe, integrated access to essential destinations, making active transportation a viable option for more Californians.
Invest in Thriving Communities: Invest in long-term neighborhood safety, security, and wealth that connects sustainable transportation options with affordable housing that is integrated with healthy destinations. We must empower the communities most impacted by harmful transportation investments to choose their own goals, strategies, and projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, local toxic air, and lethal streets.
Divest from Freeway Expansion: Don’t build one more mile of dead-end infrastructure that increases traffic, damages communities, increases fossil fuel dependence, and creates new maintenance bills that California can’t afford to pay. Divest from failed traffic mitigation policies that lead to gridlock, and invest those funds in infrastructure to move California into the future.
Divest from Climate Collapse: Transportation is the biggest contributor to GHG emissions, so we must divest from projects that increase VMT and invest those funds in low- or no-carbon transportation alternatives.
Divest from Environmental Racism: Low-income communities of color are harmed the most by toxic air, freight distribution, displacement, and gentrification pressures. It’s time to divest from projects that bring environmental degradation and invest those funds in historically marginalized communities.
Divest from Enforcement and Criminalization: Californians need safety from the violence of cars, freight trucks, and other forms of publicly-subsidized harm that especially burden and criminalize Black and brown bodies/communities. Divest from racist, militarized traffic enforcement and invest in community resources to support and protect vulnerable residents.
Divest from Policing as a Street Safety Solution: Law enforcement is often positioned as the prevailing authority on street safety, ignoring other forms of community protection. We cannot trust the police to enforce traffic laws equitably without the removal of white supremacy from law enforcement. Therefore, we must remove police enforcement from Vision Zero and other safe streets strategies.
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