Bike Month: OCTA’s Annual Bike Rally
More than thirty cyclists came out to OCTA's Bike Rally Thursday morning at Orange Station. The roughly 3.5-mile route cut through Old Town Orange using side streets and the Santiago River Trail Bike Path.
May 19, 2017
BTWD in Orange County Showcases Santa Ana Bike Infrastructure Successes
Caltrans hosted its own Bike to Work Day in Santa Ana to showcase some of the work it's doing to improve biking infrastructure in downtown.
May 17, 2017
OCTA Budget Outlook: Balanced, But Problems Loom
Money from S.B.1 will allow OCTA to avoid deep service cuts on it buses, but if ridership continues decreasing, there will be hard choices to make in the future.
May 10, 2017
OC Streetcar to Receive $50 Million in Federal Funding
The OC Streetcar got a reprieve this week when it was included in Congress's recently agreed-upon funding package. If it is signed by President Trump, the Garden Grove-to-Santa Ana streetcar project would receive $50 million from the federal New Starts program, which faces an uncertain future under the current administration.
May 5, 2017
High-Speed Rail Authority Discusses Routes to Anaheim
California high-speed rail proposes to use the existing rail alignment between L.A.'s Union Station and ARTIC in Anaheim. That will require some modifications, including a number of grade separations.
April 19, 2017
15,000+ Bicyclists, Pedestrians Come Out to Garden Grove’s 3rd Open Streets Event
More than 15,000 people came out to bike and walk in Garden Grove's Open Streets event on Saturday. The 2.5-mile route stretched from Main Street to West Street and had some streets closed to cars, streets with mixed traffic, and a one-mile pop-up protected bike lane.
April 6, 2017
OCTA’s Discounted Day Pass Fails to Impact Declining Ridership, Will End
OCTA experimented with a discounted day pass for its buses to help increase ridership--rather, to counter rapidly decreasing ridership. But it “didn’t provide the movement of the needle that we were looking for in terms of increasing ridership” and will be ending soon.
April 3, 2017
Garden Grove Open Streets Event Returns for Third Year on April 1
Garden Grove's third Open Streets route on April 1 will have a mix of car-free streets, pop-up protected bike lanes, designated walking paths and a pop-up neighborhood greenway.
March 20, 2017
Bus Rapid Transit? More Streetcar? OCTA Considers What’s Best for Harbor Blvd
The Orange County Transportation Authority is studying twelve different transit options, including Bus Rapid Transit and a streetcar, for the highest-transit-use corridor in the county.
February 14, 2017
Community Land Trust Seeks to Revitalize Vacant Lots in Santa Ana
Thrive Santa Ana hopes to turn vacant city-owned lots into affordable housing, community gardens, recreational space, economic incubators
December 29, 2016
