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CalBike Insider: Micromobility Fights for Its Life, Ending Parking Mandates, and MUTCD Update

Full Assembly to Vote on AB 1238, to Decriminalize Jaywalking

CalBike Insider: Street Safety, Budget Surplus, and the Death of a Good Idea

Jaywalking webinar, Michael Kelly, BikeWalkKC

Webinar: A National Discussion on Decriminalizing Jaywalking

Last Chance For Input into Bike Tourism Initiative

Studies Show Increases in Biking and Bike Safety in Numbers

Advocates’ Budget Ask for Active Transportation

CalBike succeeds in passing e-bike voucher bill in Senate

E-Bikes Are the Best Climate Investment for California

Proposed Law Would Bring the 15-Minute City and Bicycle Highways in California

CalBike to Host National Panel on Decriminalizing Jaywalking

Assembly Transportation Committee Supports Freedom to Walk Act

Roundup of CalBike 2021 Legislation

CalBike Works with Caltrans to Move Complete Streets Forward

June 11, 2025/by Jared Sanchez

In 2024, with help from our allies and thousands of CalBike supporters, we passed the Complete Streets Bill, SB 960, requiring Caltrans to add or upgrade facilities for people biking and walking when they repair state routes that serve those travel modes. Passing the bill was just the first step; as we’ve seen with the […]

California’s Budget Prioritizes Freeway Expansion Over Safe Streets

June 9, 2025/by Laura McCamy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 9, 2025 Contact: Jared Sanchez, jared@calbike.org, (714)262-0921 Sacramento — CalBike and other advocates had a modest ask from California’s nearly $20 billion 2025 transportation budget: give back the $400 million that was stripped from the Active Transportation Program (ATP) in 2024, as the legislature promised to do in last year’s budget. […]

This Is What a Bike Highway Could Look Like

June 9, 2025/by Jared Sanchez

The Bike Highways Bill, AB 954, passed the Assembly by a wide margin, showing strong support for protected, connected bikeway networks. CalBike is sponsoring this bill, authored by Assemblymember Steve Bennett, which will create a pilot project pathway to create bike highway networks in two regions. The networks could be planned using existing segments of […]

CalBike Insider: Design Guidance on Class IV Bikeways

June 9, 2025/by Laura McCamy

Caltrans issues Design Information Bulletins (DIBs) that set the parameters for specific types of facilities on the state highway network. DIB-89 provides guidance on how to build Class IV bikeways. Class IV lanes are on-street bikeways separated from car traffic by some type of physical barrier. CalBike’s analysis of Caltrans data found that, although protected […]

Central Valley Bikeways Project - Bakersfield

Bakersfield Convenes Grand Jury to Investigate Bike Lanes

June 3, 2025/by Kendra Ramsey

On May 27, 2025, the Kern County Grand Jury released a preliminary report titled The Proliferation of Bike Lanes: Whose Road Is It? The grand jury had been asked to “examine the impact of bike lanes in Bakersfield.” It returned findings that questioned the value of installing bike lanes in Bakersfield and accused the consulting […]

Quick-Build Designs Improve Street Safety

May 29, 2025/by Jared Sanchez

Photo: Anne Thomas riding the “mousehole” bike lane through underpass on State Route 273. Quick-build methods are a cost-effective way to reconfigure streets for greater safety for people walking and biking. Placing parked cars or planter boxes between moving cars and bike riders is less expensive to design and install than a raised curb. Quick-build […]

CalBike Webinar: Improving our Communities with Slow Streets

May 29, 2025/by Kendra Ramsey

The Slow Streets movement wasn’t new when the pandemic hit in 2020. Berkeley had restricted traffic on neighborhood streets that became bike boulevards decades earlier. But the sudden demand for safe space to walk and bike when everyone was staying home fueled a surge in Slow Streets. Slow Streets are shared spaces where only local […]

Nine Uses for Daylighting Space

May 28, 2025/by Kendra Ramsey

California’s new daylighting law prohibits parking within 20 feet of the approach to most crosswalks, creating greater visibility to reduce conflicts between people driving cars and people walking or biking across the street. The law allows communities to ticket people parked in that space, regardless of whether the curb is painted red or there is […]

California Walks and CalBike Call on Cities to Implement Daylighting to Save Lives

May 27, 2025/by Laura McCamy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Published simultaneously with California Walks. Contact: Kendra Ramsey, CalBike, 707-469-3387, kendra@calbike.org Kevin Shin, California Walks, 562-248-6371, kevin@calwalks.org In 2023, AB 413, Assemblymember Alex Lee’s Daylighting to Save Lives Bill, passed in Sacramento, making California the 43rd state to prohibit parking approaching intersections to increase visibility of pedestrians and bicyclists. CalBike and California […]

California’s Transportation Spending Has the Wrong Priorities

May 14, 2025/by Jared Sanchez

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jared Sanchez, jared@calbike.org, 714-262-0921 Sacramento — CalBike is disappointed to see no increase in funding for active transportation in Governor Gavin Newsom’s May revise. As it has become clear there will be no leadership from Washington on climate change, active transportation, and safe streets, it’s more imperative that California step up […]

E-Bike Purchase Incentives FAQs

May 9, 2025/by Laura McCamy

California’s E-Bike Purchase Incentive Project is distributing vouchers in a series of application windows. We will post upcoming application windows here and on our e-bike campaign page. Pedal Ahead, the administrator of this program for the California Air Resources Board (CARB), has published its own FAQs. Note: We update these FAQs as new information becomes […]

Bike Riders’ Right to Safe Streets Tested in Court

May 9, 2025/by Kendra Ramsey

The question of whether municipalities have a responsibility to maintain safe streets without hazards that could injure people riding bikes has been raised in California recently. CalBike joined an amicus brief in a court case that could have let cities off the hook if injured bike riders had signed a third-party waiver. Thankfully, the California […]