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Jared Sanchez2022-03-30 13:05:222022-03-30 13:13:13Update: Assembly Transportation Committee Supports Landmark Active Transportation Slate
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Laura McCamy2022-03-21 17:49:282023-11-28 12:10:53Explore Oakland at the California Bicycle Summit
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Kevin Claxton2022-03-14 14:48:202023-11-28 12:11:56California Bicycle Summit Opening Night Mixer Celebrates the Vital Work of California Bicycle Advocates and Planners
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Jared Sanchez2022-03-03 18:13:582022-06-02 12:15:28All the Bike-Friendly Bills Introduced in California in 2022
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Laura McCamy2022-02-28 15:56:242022-06-01 17:24:50Realizing the Potential of Bike and Scooter Sharing Systems
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Laura McCamy2022-02-22 15:11:182022-03-04 15:14:00CALBIKE Opposes AB 371
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Jared Sanchez2022-02-11 15:37:362022-02-11 16:04:53Summit Preview: What It’s Like to Bike in Latin America
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Kevin Claxton2022-02-09 19:34:332024-08-06 13:31:15Making California’s E-Bike Affordability Program Successful
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Kevin Claxton2022-01-26 15:13:392022-01-26 15:13:40How CalBike Quietly Pulls the Levers of Power in Sacramento
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Kevin Claxton2022-01-26 15:10:032023-11-28 12:11:14Announcing the Theme of the 2022 California Bicycle Summit: CONNECTING
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Kevin Claxton2022-01-14 15:54:412022-01-15 09:59:04CalBike’s Best and Worst of 2021
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Kevin Claxton2022-01-14 13:31:212024-07-17 10:57:26CalBike response to Governor Newsom’s Proposed Budget
Caltrans’ State Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan Update Work Begins
/by Andrew WrightThe State Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan (SBPP) is Caltrans’ statewide policy plan for walking and bicycling. Caltrans has started work on a new plan, with a final version expected in 2028. It sits under the larger California Transportation Plan, alongside statewide plans for rail, freight, aviation, and other parts of the transportation system. The current […]
South Carolina Passed the Bicycle Safety Stop. When’s our turn?
/by Andrew WrightSouth Carolina’s new bicycle safety stop law began with a chance conversation on a group ride. A legislator heard why traffic laws designed for cars do not always make sense for bicycles and asked advocates to send language to his office. Six months later, Governor Henry McMaster signed the “Palmetto Stop.” The bill passed the […]
Why CalBike Opposes Proposition 45
/by Andrew WrightProposition 45 begins with a diagnosis that is difficult to dispute: California has forgotten how to build, and the friction of regulation is too burdensome, resulting in delays and inflated costs. Useful infrastructure gets caught in procedural thickets that raise costs without always producing better outcomes. There is clearly appeal to a ballot measure promising […]
Press Release: CalBike-Backed Bill to Strengthen Safe Streets Funding Advances to Senate Floor
/by Andrew WrightFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SACRAMENTO — The California Bicycle Coalition today applauded the passage of AB 2168, authored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks and sponsored by CalBike. AB 2168 strengthens California’s Active Transportation Program by improving how projects are chosen, funded, and delivered. The bill helps move the program closer to its core purpose: getting more people […]
Press Release: Preserving Bikeways Bill, SB 569 Passes Assembly Transportation Committee
/by Andrew WrightPreserving Bikeways Bill, SB 569 Passes Assembly Transportation Committee CalBike-sponsored legislation protects state investments in safe bicycling infrastructure. SACRAMENTO — The California Bicycle Coalition today applauded the Assembly Transportation Committee’s passage of SB 569, authored by Senator Catherine S. Blakespear and sponsored by CalBike. SB 569, the Preserving Safe Bikeways bill, establishes a public process […]
Press Release: CalBike Applauds Assembly Transportation Committee Passage of SB 1167
/by Andrew WrightLegislation draws a clear line between electric bicycles and illegal high-powered electric motorcycles. SACRAMENTO — The California Bicycle Coalition today applauded the Assembly Transportation Committee’s passage of SB 1167, authored by Senator Catherine S. Blakespear and co-sponsored by CalBike, PeopleForBikes, Streets For All, and Streets Are For Everyone. SB 1167 strengthens consumer protections and clarifies […]
Press Release: Preserving Safe Bikeways, SB 569
/by Andrew WrightCalifornia communities are investing public dollars, staff time, and political will into safer streets. They are building bikeways, traffic calming, safer crossings, and connected routes that help people bike, walk, and roll with more confidence. But in too many places, that progress has proven fragile. A bikeway can take years to plan, fund, approve, and […]
Rail-to-Rail Shows What ATP Can Do
/by Andrew WrightThe World Cup arrives in Los Angeles this week as both a spectacle and stress test. For a few weeks, the region will be asked to do what it has often promised but rarely delivered at scale: move people efficiently without surrendering the city to traffic. AB 2168 matters because it recognizes a simple truth […]
Thank you for putting Public Safety First
/by Andrew WrightThis spring, more than 600 Californians signed the Public Safety First petition demanding clarity on e-bikes. Developed by E-Bike Access and launched statewide by CalBike in collaboration with the Marin County Bicycle Coalition, this effort moves the conversation forward in California: legal e-bikes are part of our transportation future, and illegal e-motos being sold as […]
California’s Best Street Improvement Program Is Drowning in Demand
/by Andrew WrightWhen the application window for the Active Transportation Program (ATP) opens, California communities line up with a basic request: help us make our streets safer. They laboriously apply to the Active Transportation Program, the state’s only dedicated funding source for walking and biking projects. These are the projects that close sidewalk gaps, build protected […]
SB 1167, The Mineta Report, and How We Got Here
/by Andrew WrightIn 2023, the Legislature passed SB 381, which directed the Mineta Transportation Institute at San José State University to conduct a study on electric bicycles, with a mission to “develop effective laws and policy to support the twin goals of expanding electric bicycle use and protecting the safety of electric bicycle riders and other road […]
LA’s Delayed Mobility Projects Show Why California Needs to Fix ATP
/by Andrew WrightThe Active Transportation Program (ATP) is one of California’s most important and effective tools for reducing traffic violence, cutting climate pollution, improving public health, and giving people practical transportation choices. When the program works, it helps build the kinds of connected networks that make everyday trips possible without a car. But those connections only matter […]