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Andrew Wright2026-03-13 09:57:052026-03-13 09:57:49California Has the Tools to Stop Super Speeders. AB 2276 Would Finally Use Them.
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Andrew Wright2026-03-04 13:55:472026-03-04 13:55:47Demand a Better 2026 SHOPP
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Andrew Wright2026-03-03 12:45:232026-03-03 12:46:36Protect the Promise of E-Bikes
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Andrew Wright2026-02-24 13:07:032026-02-24 13:09:22Press Release: CalBike Co-Sponsors SB 1167 to Protect Consumers and Preserve Access to Legal E-Bikes
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Andrew Wright2026-02-04 10:21:052026-02-04 10:23:33Bike Buses Show Us How Mode Shift Really Begins
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Andrew Wright2026-01-20 14:42:582026-01-20 14:42:58Not every bicycle project begins, or ends, with a bill.
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Andrew Wright2026-01-09 14:43:032026-01-09 14:44:04CalBike’s Response to 2026 CA Budget: $200 Million More for Active Transportation Needed
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Andrew Wright2025-12-19 15:13:272025-12-19 15:13:55The Last Mile Matters: Checking In on Recent Wins
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Andrew Wright2025-12-11 11:16:232025-12-11 13:05:49Four Strategies That Helped the Hollenbeck Project Pass
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Andrew Wright2025-12-04 10:13:382025-12-04 10:18:552026 Agenda Reveal, Recap, and Q&A
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Andrew Wright2025-11-25 09:53:102025-11-25 09:53:11“Trust Is Infrastructure”: How LA Metro’s Nina Kin Is Building Better Data for Transit Riders on Bikes
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Andrew Wright2025-11-20 14:49:092025-11-25 15:06:47Pave First, and Ask Questions Later
Senator Liu pulls helmet mandate
/by ZacToday, Senator Carol Liu pulled the helmet mandate from her bill. Helmet mandates don’t make streets safer. They discourage people from riding, and they are enforced inequitably. Your California Bicycle Coalition asked her to pull the bill, and thousands of people from across California chimed in on our petition. Senator Liu heard nearly unanimous opposition […]
National Bike Summit 2015 Report
/by ZacWith Republicans in charge as Congress considers the next six years of federal transportation funding, this year’s National Bike Summit and Women’s Forum took on a new urgency. From Tuesday to Thursday last week, approximately 50 delegates from California met to share best practices in bicycle advocacy, emphasizing the importance of equity and inclusion, and […]
SF in line to lead the state with Vision Zero campaign
/by ZacLast year, the 21 people killed while walking or biking in San Francisco represented the highest count since 2007, as noted a statement from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and Walk San Francisco. In response, the SF Bicycle Coalition, WalkSF, and over twenty community groups are calling on the Board of Supervisors, the SFMTA and Mayor Ed Lee to […]
Stop caring about auto congestion in environmental analysis, says OPR
/by ZacA new law changes a perverse aspect of the California Environmental Quality Act that required local agencies to consider delays to motor vehicles worse for the environment than negative impacts on bicycle safety. The Governor’s Office of Planning & Research is writing new guidelines to comply with the law, eliminating “automobile level of service” as […]
Advice to Council submitted
/by ZacThe California Bicycle Coalition has submitted two letters to the Strategic Growth Council with feedback on their proposed guidelines for administering the $130 million “Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities” grant program. The program is intended to support measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by reducing vehicle miles traveled and could play an important role in […]
New GHSA Report Gets It Wrong
/by ZacA recent report by the Governors Highway Safety Association attracted a great deal of attention, but the way they present the data is misleading. The report implies that riding a bike in California has gotten more dangerous in the past few years. In fact, bicycling is almost twice as safe in California as it was […]
New GHSA Report Gets It Wrong
/by ZacA recent report by the Governors Highway Safety Association attracted a great deal of attention, but the way they present the data is misleading. The report implies that riding a bike in California has gotten more dangerous in the past few years. In fact, bicycling is almost twice as safe in California as it was […]
Caltrans Developing Protected Bike Lane Guidelines
/by ZacYour California Bicycle Coalition is advising Caltrans on the guidelines for protected bike lanes as part of a select committee that is reviewing the current draft. The committee is working fast to meet the official deadline of December 31 set by our bill, the Protected Bikeway Act of 2014 (AB 1193, Ting), that defined a […]
Caltrans sets familiar-sounding goal to triple bicycling by 2020
/by ZacLast week, Caltrans released a new Strategic Management Plan to chart the course of the Department’s work for the next 5 years. The Plan outlines five cross-cutting goals and dozens of strategic objectives that Caltrans aims to achieve by 2020, under categories that range from ‘safety and health’ to ‘sustainability, livability, and economy’. There are a number […]
ATP Funded projects have been released
/by ZacComment by Dave Snyder The California Transportation Commission (CTC) released the list of projects recommended for funding in the first part of the first cycle of the Active Transportation Program, the only state pot of funding dedicated exclusively to walking and biking. So far, we can draw three conclusions: The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) staff can do […]
Governor’s May revised budget ignores Active Transportation Program
/by ZacOn May 14 (Bike to Work Day in LA and the Bay Area), the Governor released his “May revise” budget proposal, and despite over $1 billion in new available revenues, we were disappointed that the Active Transportation Program (ATP) did not see an increase in funding. Earlier this spring, 120 organizations statewide called for an […]
SSTI review of Caltrans scathing and hopeful
/by ZacI just took advantage of a long plane trip to finish reading this long and thorough review of Caltrans written by the State Smart Transportation Initiative (SSTI). It’s surprising to see such stinging criticism of a state agency commissioned by another agency and it’s hopeful to see a roadmap for transformation of the agency. SSTI calls for a major […]