Advocacy
This Week: Active Transportation Program Workshop
The good news is that there will be a Cycle 7. But it will be small, and there will be hard choices about what gets funded.
Complete Streets Bill Hearing Next Week
CalBike urges you to weigh in with the Assembly Transportation Committee on the Complete Streets Bill, which would require Caltrans to ensure safety for people biking, walking, and taking transit.
Get to Know Your MPO: An Advocate’s Guide to Some of Our Most Critical Transportation Agencies
The Metropolitan Planning Organization can have an outsized influence on local transportation decisions. Here's what every advocate needs to know about how they operate — and how to win them over.
Help Shape Bike Parking in State Building Code
The Building Standards Commission is updating its code, which means it has to update bicycle parking standards. Weigh in!
Christopher White to Lead S.F. Bicycle Coalition
San Francisco's leading bike advocacy group to stick with its interim director
‘A Petition, a Website, and a T-shirt’: Ann Arbor Advocates Share Tips for Fighting Highway Expansions
Ann Arbor advocates helped get a destructive and wasteful highway expansion thrown out — and they have some ideas on how you can, too.
ClimatePlan Seeks a New Executive Director
This coalition of nonprofits working to shift California's transportation infrastructure towards sustainable and equitable travel is looking for someone to lead their new campaigns
Environmental Groups File Suit Against I-80 Highway Expansion
The environmental report for the Yolo Bypass project understates the true impacts of the project, according to the lawsuit
Legislative Update: Bike-Friendly Bills at the Midpoint
The team at the California Bicycle Coalition tracks bills that affect active transportation.
How Bad Is Newsom’s Proposed Cut to the Active Transportation Program? Awful.
It would have zeroed out the entirety of Cycle 7 - but the legislature has rejected the cuts.
