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Tag Archive for: active transportation

Transportation Committee Considers Historic Slate of Seven Active Transportation Bills March 28th 

March 25, 2022/by Jared Sanchez

For Immediate Release: 3/25/22

Contact: Jared Sanchez, CalBike (714) 262-092, Jared@CalBike.org

CALBIKE: Transportation Committee Considers Historic Slate of Seven Active Transportation Bills March 28th 

Sacramento – A slate of seven bills that will support safer streets, better biking, and active transportation will be considered in the Assembly Transportation Committee on Monday, March 28, 2022.

Dave Snyder, executive director of CalBike, said, “Taken together, these seven bills represent a big step toward protecting our climate, creating more livable communities, and making our streets more equitable and safe for all Californians.”

Some of the bills were introduced in 2021 and are now coming back for a second try at becoming law. Two of the measures passed the legislature but were vetoed by the governor. New versions attempt to address the Governor’s concerns as expressed in his veto statements.

These seven bills will be considered at the Transportation Committee hearing on Monday, March 28: 

  • The Bicycle Safety Stop (AB 1713, Boerner Horvath): As written, the bill allows all bike riders aged 18 and over to treat stop signs as yields. CalBike asks the committee to amend the bill to lower the age to 16. If someone is old enough to drive, they are mature enough to responsibly practice the Bicycle Safety Stop.
  • Legalize Safe Street Crossings (AB 2147, Ting): This measure is a critical step forward in reducing the over-policing of Black and brown Californians. It eliminates jaywalking ticketing for safe midblock crossings.
  • The Bikes Belong Bill (AB 1909, Friedman): This bicycle omnibus bill ensures e-bikes can use paved bike paths, requires motorists to change lanes when passing, allows bikes to cross with the “Walk” signal, and prohibits unnecessary bike registration schemes. It’s California’s endorsement of the idea that bikes belong on our roads and streets.
  • Leading Pedestrian Crossing Signals (AB 2264, Bloom) A measure that would require a headstart for pedestrians before traffic can move when a light turns green, which improves pedestrian safety. 
  • Bicycle Highways Bill (AB 2237, Friedman): This measure requires regional transportation plans to be written to include visionary elements such as 15-minute neighborhoods[link] and bicycle highways.
  • Speed Camera Pilot (AB 2336, Friedman): Speed kills on California streets and this bill creates a pilot program to study speed cameras for better and more equitable enforcement of speed limits. 
  • Transportation and Climate (AB 2438, Friedman): If this bill becomes law, all transportation projects will have to align with California’s climate goals in order to receive state or local funding, which means putting active transportation and public transport at the center of California’s transportation future.

CalBike is California’s state bicycle advocacy organization. It strongly supports all seven of the bills in this Active Transportation Slate. If passed into law, these measures represent a critical step toward decarbonizing California’s transportation infrastructure and creating healthier, safer neighborhoods for all Californians.

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California Cities Ranked Top Places to Live Car-Free

August 4, 2021/by Laura McCamy

We don’t know why a lawn care company decided to rate the best U.S. cities to live without a car, but we like LawnStarter’s list. The rankings include 14 California cities, with San Francisco topping the list as the best city in the U.S. to live car-free. The ability of Californians to get around by active transportation is something CalBike and thousands of local leaders all over the state have worked hard to achieve, and we’re glad to see that work bearing fruit.

Best cities to live without a car in California

Here are the 14 California cities in the top 50, with their ranks:

  • San Francisco, 1
  • Oakland, 7
  • Los Angeles, 16
  • Irvine, 17
  • Santa Rosa, 18
  • San Jose, 21
  • Huntington Beach, 22
  • Santa Ana, 23
  • Oxnard, 27
  • San Diego, 28
  • Long Beach, 29
  • Fremont, 31
  • Sacramento, 41
  • Glendale, 46

What makes a city ideal for car-free living?

LawnStarter evaluated the 150 biggest cities in the U.S. based on 20 metrics. Walkability, bikeability, and transit all figured into their calculations. The survey looked at the walk score, bike score, and the number of bike rental facilities per 100,000 residents. Other metrics were commute modes, safety including crime and pedestrian fatalities, and climate, which evaluated weather conditions that might discourage active transit.

California cities got a boost from the climate metric. San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles tied for the lowest number of days below freezing. And San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and Fremont had the fewest days with temperatures over 90 degrees. 

San Francisco ranked third in the percent of residents who commute by public transit, after New York City and Jersey City, NJ. 

Not all the results for California cities were positive, however. Fremont, Moreno Valley, and Santa Clarita had some of the longest commute times. And, while no California city was in the bottom 10, Stockton was far down the list at 116.

More work to be done

While we are encouraged by the availability of transit options that allow people to live without a car in so many California cities, we have more work to do. We want more Southern California communities to rank high because of their terrific bike networks. And we’d like to see more communities in California’s interior expand active transportation options, as Redding is doing right now. With your help, CalBike will keep working to make California communities more bikeable and liveable.

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Advocates’ Budget Ask for Active Transportation

May 11, 2021/by Andrew Wright

CalBike signed on to this letter in support of the California Transportation Commission’s request for $2 billion of supplemental funding for active transportation projects. Our letter, joined by key long-term allies in advocacy for active transportation, differs from the Commission’s request in that it suggests spending half of that $2 billion on unfunded applications in the last cycle of the Active Transportation Program instead of three-quarters of the funding. We agree the balance of the funding should be used for bicycle highways and complete bicycle networks as suggested in AB 147

Read the full sign-on letter. Click here for a list of all sign-on letters.

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Welcome New Hire: Forest Barnes to Work on Active Transportation in the Central Valley

May 7, 2019/by Laura McCamy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 6, 2019

Sacramento, CA –The California Bicycle Coalition is excited to announce the addition of Forest Barnes to our staff. Forest will lead CalBike’s active transportation planning work in five southern San Joaquin Valley cities from Fresno to Bakersfield.

Under Forest’s leadership, CalBike will facilitate planning for safe walking and biking connections to the planned high speed rail stations and for bikeshare in the city of Bakersfield. These efforts are supported by an SB 1 Sustainable Communities grant. The grant was awarded to CalBike and Kern Council of Governments to improve bicycle and pedestrian connectivity, specifically for the Valley’s most marginalized residents, around proposed High-Speed Rail stations.

Forest is coming to CalBike having recently completed his Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has extensive experience in sustainable transportation planning and policy, specifically in the Central Valley and the Bay Area. As a Bakersfield native, Forest will be a valuable addition to CalBike in this new role.

Please welcome Forest Barnes to the CalBike team!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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