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Stay informed about the bicycling movement in California by reading this blog and subscribing to our monthly newsletter, the CalBike Report. Keep apprised of which bills we are supporting with our Legislative Watch page, which we update regularly.

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

California’s Transportation Spending Has the Wrong Priorities

E-Bike Purchase Incentives FAQs

Bike Riders’ Right to Safe Streets Tested in Court

My Mother Rode a Bike

Fate of Quick-Build and Bike Highways in Suspense

Inside the Black Box of Appropriations

NYBC: Bicycle Programs Are the New Student Movement

Building an Alliance Between Firefighters and Street Safety Advocates

CalBike Insider: Digging into the State Highway System Management Plan

What to Know About the Next California E-Bike Voucher Application Window

E-Bikes on the Agenda for California Legislature in 2025

Comprehensive Multimodal Corridor Plan Draft Guidelines

September 19, 2018/by Zac

Our work in helping to ensure the development and implementation of the critical transportation funding package continues with the release of the draft guidelines for the new Comprehensive Multimodal Corridor Plan; read our coalition’s comment letter about the work still to be done, and follow along with us here and on social media to stay in the loop as […]

New Definitions Have Grave Implications For California’s Active Transportation Program

September 4, 2018/by Zac

Californians have agreed to set aside funding for what the state terms “Disadvantaged Communities”, to support projects aimed at “improving public health, quality of life and economic opportunity in California’s most burdened communities at the same time reducing pollution that causes climate change.” If we’ve prioritized these funds for our most vulnerable and negatively impacted […]

Say No to Prop 6’s Attack on Safety, Equity, and Sustainability

August 27, 2018/by Zac

Just as we are making progress in our campaign to ensure the state always takes bike and pedestrian safety into account in transportation funding, Proposition 6 threatens to tear it all apart. If it passes, Prop 6 will cancel $5.2 billion in funding for transportation projects—thousands of them already underway—desperately needed to repair roads in communities […]

Inaugural Joint Air Resources Board and Transportation Commission a Hopeful Start

July 25, 2018/by Zac

If we had to sum up the first-ever Joint Air Resources Board (ARB) and California Transportation Commission (CTC) meeting in a word, we’d go with “hopeful“. CalBike and more than a dozen of our allies and partners wouldn’t have missed this important inaugural joint meeting brought about by CalBike-supported Assembly Bill 179, introduced by Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes (D-Corona), […]

New Environmental Justice Report Finds California Transportation Commission Far Behind Equity Goals

July 6, 2018/by Zac

Last week the California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) held a briefing to discuss their second annual Environmental Justice Agency Assessment. The report lays out principles for the inclusion of environmental justice in policy and program implementation for state agencies, including the California Transportation Commission (CTC), an agency CalBike watches closely and which is extremely important this year given […]

Campaign to Promote E-Bikes in California Turns to BikeShare Programs

July 5, 2018/by Zac

As more people discover the joy of using an electric bike to get around, just like with regular bikes, our communities become better — more equitable, more prosperous, and more inclusive. Bicycles are affordable, safe, healthy, and clean transportation. The problem is, electric bicycles can be expensive. Their cost deters many Californians from trying this […]

A Breath of Fresh Air: ARB and CTC First Joint Meeting

June 26, 2018/by Zac

CalBike-supported Assembly Bill 179, introduced by Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes (D-Corona), is part of a series of efforts to reform the powerful California Transportation Commission, an executive body with far-reaching impact. Transportation investments affect all Californians, and they often disproportionately burden our lowest-income communities. But the California Transportation Commission hasn’t met previously to coordinate its efforts with […]

Fund The Great Redwood Trail

June 20, 2018/by Zac

CalBike friends and all friends of California’s Trails; Riding between San Francisco and Humboldt on mostly carfree trails will be a gorgeous possibility if the Great Redwood Trail is built as envisioned by Senate Bill 1029, introduced by Senator Mike McGuire. The bill would disband the North Coast Railroad Authority and replace it with the Great Redwood Trail Agency […]

Projects on Local Roads May Face One Less Delay With Senate Bill 760

June 8, 2018/by Zac

In September of 2015, the City of Oakland installed bike lanes on Chetwood Street, a local road that includes an overpass over a Caltrans highway. Oakland’s project design included six-foot wide bike lanes and 10-foot mixed traffic lanes, meeting local standards for bike safety and comfort. When they applied for the encroachment permit for the […]

Galvanizing News: Air Resources Board Could Include E-Bike Share

June 7, 2018/by Zac

E-bikes remove barriers that prevent most people from riding bikes. Bike share systems provide easy access to bikes for the quick short trip or transit connection that would otherwise require a car. Put the two together, and you have the potential to expose millions of Californians to the amazing potential of bicycles. CalBike is working […]

CalBike Recommendations Roll to Victory in Ballot Propositions, Three out of Four Races on Primary Day

June 6, 2018/by Zac

For the most part, California voters did indeed #BikeTheVote on Tuesday. Voters approved CalBike positions on every ballot measure we endorsed, and bike-friendly candidates won the right to compete in November in each of the three races we endorsed. With voter approval of Prop 68, the infrastructure bond for parks and trails, and in the Bay […]

CalBike Opposes the Josh Newman Recall

June 2, 2018/by Zac

Last year, Josh Newman cast an essential vote in support of SB 1—a critically important package of taxes and fees to maintain our transportation systems. SB 1 is already generating billions of dollars putting Californians to work repaving and rebuilding critical infrastructure. It’s making our communities safer by eliminating dangerous potholes and upgrading biking and […]