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Girl with father under BART tracks Ohlone Greenway Bikeway

Governor Signs Friedman’s Excellent OmniBike Bill, AB 1909

Bikeway design guidelines are particularly important at intersections.

Ian Sane

Why a Bicycle Coalition Supports Scooters — And You Should, Too

Legislative Update: Active Transportation Wins Outnumber Losses as Bills Head to the Governor

CalBike Statement on the Withdrawal of the Bicycle Safety Stop Bill, AB 1713

How to Get a Clean Cars for All E-Bike Voucher in the Bay Area

California Capitol building in Sacramento

Active Transportation Slate Poised to Pass Legislature

CalBike Announces Executive Director Search

CalBike Supporters Make Big Impression at CARB E-Bike Work Group Meeting

CalBike’s Jenn Guitart Becomes TransForm Executive Director

New Models of Bicycle Advocacy

Ian Sane

California Bike-Sharing in Danger

StreetsblogLA

SB 932 Is a Plan for the Future that California Must Embrace

CalBike Announces Online Summit Session on Bike Highways

July 30, 2025/by Kendra Ramsey

Caltrans Unveils Transit Policy

July 29, 2025/by Jared Sanchez

After some delay, Caltrans recently released its draft Director’s Transit Policy, as required by the Complete Streets Law, SB 960, which CalBike helped pass in 2024. This internal policy is similar in form and function to DP-37, the Director’s Policy for Complete Streets, released in 2021. As we know from DP-37, these policies are a […]

Adding Bikeways to State Routes: Two Local Advocates Share Strategies for Change

July 23, 2025/by Laura McCamy

Getting bikeways, crosswalks, or other Complete Streets elements into a Caltrans project can be challenging. Convincing Caltrans to alter a previously approved project to add bikeways is an even bigger lift, but local advocates in the East Bay did just that. We spoke with Robert Prinz, Bike East Bay’s advocacy director, and Drew Dara-Abrams, who […]

CalBike Insider: Updating Bike Parking in Green Building Codes

July 22, 2025/by Jared Sanchez

A secure place to park is essential to making bicycling an appealing way to get around. So, CalBike and 17 of our local partners submitted a letter to the California Building Standards Commission, which is updating California’s Green Building Standards Code. Including robust residential and commercial bike parking standards in those codes is an important […]

Automated Speed Enforcement Cameras Show Prevalence of Speeding

July 9, 2025/by Kendra Ramsey

In 2023, CalBike supported AB 645, which created a pilot program for six cities to install cameras for automated speed enforcement. San Francisco is the first to have its cameras fully installed and up and running, and the program is yielding a trove of data. The biggest takeaway will come as no surprise to people […]

Misery depicted in blurry traffic lights on a crowded rush hour freeway.

Don’t Believe the Myths About VMT Mitigation

July 8, 2025/by Kendra Ramsey

Recently, Big Highway — the companies that profit off expanding highways and driving California to climate ruin — spread misinformation about vehicle miles traveled (VMT) mitigation requirements driving up the cost of freeway building. So ClimatePlan, a consortium of advocacy groups of which CalBike is a member, created a fact sheet to dispel the VMT […]

Youth Bike Summit 2025: A Magical 3-Day Weekend

July 7, 2025/by CalBike Staff

This guest post was contributed by Joshua of the National Youth Bike Council. The Youth Bike Summit is a three-day conference, held every year since 2011 (except in 2020 and 2021). This year, the Youth Bike Summit turned 11 years old and came to Boston for the first time at the end of May. It […]

CTC Backs Doomed Highway Project

July 3, 2025/by Laura McCamy

Meetings of the California Transportation Commission (CTC) usually fly under the radar with few, if any, members of the public aware they’re happening, much less showing up to comment. But a raft of grants proposed for contested highway projects, including the Highway 99 interchange in Fresno and State Route 37 widening, drew opposition from transportation […]

CalBike Insider: Following Up on the Complete Streets Bill

June 26, 2025/by Jared Sanchez

CalBike does a lot of behind-the-scenes work to encourage state agencies to develop better policies and to follow up on the implementation of bills passed in prior years. One law we’re following closely is SB 960, the Complete Streets Bill. CalBike worked tirelessly for almost a decade to pass a Complete Streets requirement on state […]

California Cities with the Best and Worst Bike Networks

June 24, 2025/by Kendra Ramsey

PeopleForBikes has released its 2025 City Ratings, assessing the connectedness and stress level of the bike networks in over 2,500 cities worldwide, including many in the U.S. The survey rated 305 California cities, with three placing in the national top 10 for their city size. As CalBike works to pass the Bike Highways Bill, AB […]

What is the 85th Percentile Rule?

June 23, 2025/by Jared Sanchez

And why it belongs in the dustbin of transportation history. In 2021, CalBike helped pass the Slower Speeds Save Lives Bill, AB 43, authored by former California Assemblymember (and current U.S. Representative) Laura Friedman. The bill gives communities limited relief from the 85th percentile rule, allowing them more leeway to lower speed limits. This year, […]

CalBike’s Legislative Agenda at the Halfway Point

June 11, 2025/by Jared Sanchez

On June 6, bills with any chance of becoming law this year left their house of origin. Senate bills had to pass a vote of the full Senate and move to Assembly committees for review, and vice versa. We’re happy to report that our two priority bills made it past the midway point, though one […]