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California Bicycle Coalition | 1017 L Street, #288, Sacramento, CA 95814 | 916-778-0746 | Contact
Made by Zac Maybury
Senate Advances Better Bikeway Design Guidelines
/in Newsroom, Streets for Everyone, The Latest /by Laura McCamyThe Better Bikeway Design Bill (AB 1266 – R. Rivas) moved forward in the Senate Transportation Committee yesterday, after passing the Assembly in mid-May. The bill provides important bikeway design guidelines for planners and public works departments. Bike lanes often disappear at intersections, which are the site of most collisions and greatest confusion for all […]
Transportation and Housing Groups Demand Equitable and Interconnected Funding
/in A Stronger Movement, Newsroom, The Latest, Transportation Justice /by Jared SanchezCalifornia’s housing crisis is in the news a lot. But California has another crisis that gets much less coverage than it deserves: the disconnect between transportation funding equity and housing production. We need infill housing near transportation hubs. And we also need transportation that better serves the low-income communities that rely on it the most. […]
Complete Streets Bill Passes the Senate
/in Newsroom, Streets for Everyone, The Latest /by Linda KhamoushianOn Thursday, May 23, the Complete Streets for Active Living Bill (SB 127) passed in the full Senate. The vote was 29 to 9. The bill’s co-sponsored are CalBike, California Walks, The American Heart Association, Safe Routes Partnership, and AARP. The Complete Streets Bill will require Caltrans to add features to improve the safety of […]
CalBike Succeeds in Getting E-bike Vouchers through the Senate
/in Newsroom, The Latest, Transportation Justice /by Laura McCamyCalBike’s e-bike and bikeshare mobility bill (SB 400, Umberg) cleared the Senate with a unanimous vote yesterday. This bill will add vouchers for e-bike and bikeshare memberships to the mobility options in a state program that provides incentives for low-income Californians to trade in polluting vehicles for clean transportation. If CalBike succeeds in getting this […]
CalBike Members Score Complete Streets Victory
/in Newsroom, Streets for Everyone, The Latest /by Laura McCamyOn May 13, the CalBike Complete Streets for Active Living Bill (SB 127) was going nowhere. It had been placed on the “suspense file” in the Appropriations Committee. The bill would require Caltrans to make state-controlled city streets safe for people to walk and bike, not just places for fast-moving cars and trucks, when they repaired […]