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CalBike Staff2024-06-04 16:07:532024-06-04 16:07:54Youth Bike Council Improves Youth Health Two Wheels at a Time
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Andrew Wright2024-05-31 17:19:142024-05-31 17:19:14Remembering Bill Walton, Friend to CalBike
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Laura McCamy2024-05-29 16:56:132024-05-29 16:56:14CalBike Commends Legislature for Rejecting Active Transportation Cuts
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Jared Sanchez2024-05-28 17:19:492024-05-28 17:19:50Legislative Update: Bike-Friendly Bills at the Midpoint
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Jared Sanchez2024-05-22 16:14:332024-07-16 14:06:25California Has a Climate Deficit
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Stefany Alfaro2024-05-21 11:39:092024-05-21 11:39:10Bike Month Is Also Mental Health Awareness Month
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Jared Sanchez2024-05-13 16:07:362024-08-06 11:29:13How to Be a Complete Streets Ambassador
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Jared Sanchez2024-05-10 15:18:172024-07-22 10:30:48CalBike Response to May Budget Revise
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Jared Sanchez2024-05-09 13:48:092024-07-30 09:58:45Sign On to Support the Complete Streets Bill
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Laura McCamy2024-05-07 11:56:292024-05-07 17:26:06Final E-Bike Incentive Work Group Reveals New Details About the Program
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CalBike Staff2024-05-06 15:48:492024-05-07 17:19:48California Bicycle Summit in San Diego Delivers Inspiration, Excitement
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Jared Sanchez2024-05-03 18:45:102024-05-07 13:29:33California Can’t Afford Not to Build Better Bikeways, Quickly
The Untokening Next Step in Transportation Justice
/by ZacFor too long, bicycle advocacy has been dominated by white middle class men. The advocacy agenda has for the most part reflected the interests of this narrow subculture. It’s limited our success and, in our increasingly diverse nation, such exclusion will halt progress completely. Other voices have been included, especially in the last decade, but […]
Caltrans Action Alert
/by ZacIt’s not too late to sign the petition calling on Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty to show leadership and ensure that Caltrans creates strong traffic analysis guidelines that pave the way for bike- and pedestrian-friendly streets. Caltrans needs to stop catering to the cars that zip through our neighborhoods, and instead prioritize safety and access for all street […]
Meet the Bike It! Santa Ana Dream Team
/by ZacAbove from left: Mirabel Mateo, Tony Gattica and Lynnete Guzman of the Bike It! Santa Ana project of KidWorks ride on Edinger Ave., where their protected bike lane will be created. Young people in Orange County are getting tired of the region’s lack of bike-friendliness. Happily, riding on Edinger Avenue in Santa Ana, from the […]
Eddie Gonzalez Wins CalBike’s Bicycle Dreamer Award
/by ZacWithout Eddie Gonzalez, Santa Barbara’s Bici Centro, Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition’s community bike shop and thrift store, would not exist. He was key in bringing together community stakeholders who had common goals: getting more people riding bicycles, and bringing to life the dream of a community bike shop. Bici Centro, founded in 2007, offers Santa […]
CalBike Announces 2016 Senate and Assembly Endorsements
/by Zac“Biking is an important transportation mode that is necessary to preserve our quality of life,” said Henry Stern, candidate for the California State Senate District 27. His answers to our questionnaire and those of twelve other candidates showed a commitment to social change trough bicycling that earned our endorsement in this November’s election. We chose to […]
2016 Legislative Session Roundup
/by ZacA busy legislative session resulted in more money for biking and walking infrastructure projects, as well as for bike share, and a huge win to extend California’s commitment to reduce climate change. It also showed where we need to increase our strength to win bigger victories for transportation equity. The 2016 session wrapped up in […]
The California Bicycle Coalition Seeks to Demystify Building Protected Bike Lanes for Californian Cities
/by CalBike StaffIn 2016, CalBike rolled out a campaign to demystify and promote a type of bike lane that was, at the time, still relatively new to the United States but rapidly gaining favor across the country: the protected bike lane, officially called a “Separated Bikeway.” Cities around California and across the world are building these new, […]
CalBike Request Wins Reversal of CHP Bike-Blaming
/by ZacEarly one morning last month, in a suburb of Sacramento, a motorist ran into the back of two bicyclists, killing one and injuring the other. It happened on Fiddyment Road in Roseville, a two-lane road with no shoulders and lanes so narrow that there’s no way a car could possibly pass a bicycle without crossing […]
Local Focus: Janine Rood of Chico Velo
/by ZacJanine Rood is the Executive Director of the California Bicycle Coalition’s affiliate in Chico, the Chico Velo Cycling Club. Our Media Director Melissa Balmer connected with Janine as part of our new series of interviews with our affiliates and other grassroots organizations across the state. CalBike: What’s your first childhood memory of riding a bike? […]
LACBC and MCM Team Up for Bike Share Equity
/by ZacOur local affiliate, the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition (LACBC) is teaming up with Multicultural Communities for Mobility (MCM) to help L.A. Metro ensure that their brand new bike share program is equitable, serving not just tourists and the well-off, but also low-income residents of Los Angeles. L.A. Metro Bike Share launched their pilot bike […]
Making Protected Bike Lanes the New Normal
/by ZacThis month, we’re taking an important step in our campaign to promote protected bike lanes among the state’s traffic engineers and policy makers. With the expert guidance of Alta Planning + Design, we developed a 4-page fact sheet to demonstrate how important protected bike lanes are, and how easy they are to build. The document, […]
Join Us! E-bike Demo on State Capitol Grounds Aug 18
/by ZacThe best way to convince policymakers that bikes really can be practical and efficient transportation as well as a fun way to get around is to bring them out for a test ride. That’s especially true with e-bikes, as we discovered at our successful electric bike demo at the Air Resources Board back in June. So we […]