Lead the Way, California: A Transportation Platform to Lead Us Forward

California has new leaders, and our communities deserve plans, principles, and priorities that will move our state forward instead of holding us back. To help support Governor-elect Newsom and his administration in truly leading the nation and the world in sustainable and equitable transportation policy, CalBike joins almost 50 organizations in releasing our comprehensive platform.

This transportation platform offers concrete proposals for the next governor to act to meet our ambitious state climate, air quality, housing, health, and equity goals. The platform takes an ‘intersectional’ approach that attempts to break down the usual operation of our state silos in meeting goals. CalBike is leading the way ensuring governmental action is carried out in more coordinated ways that challenge the true structural obstacles that cannot be solved piecemeal ways.

The platform lays out concrete steps in five priority policy areas: