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CalBike Summit to Advocates: Don’t Take No for an Answer
"Persistence with kindness." "Keep trying different things." "You have to be kind of annoying." "Light up their phones."
April 23, 2024
With a New Statewide Task Force, California Is Getting Real about Transit Transformation
Meeting California’s ambitious climate goals will require getting people out of cars and on to trains and buses. That shift could require as much as a five-fold to ten-fold increase in transit ridership above pre-COVID levels by 2045.
March 26, 2024
St. Charles Avenue Finally Gets its Curb Cut
It took years to get a simple curb cut done on a bike route between SF State and Daly City BART. It just shouldn't be this hard.
March 26, 2024
L.A. City Prepares to Implement Mobility Plan under Measure HLA Mandate, But It’s Complicated
Measure HLA requirements take effect by mid-April, but the city council and city departments are still working out what that will look like
The post L.A. City Prepares to Implement Mobility Plan under Measure HLA Mandate, But It’s Complicated appeared first on Streetsblog Los Angeles.
March 25, 2024
CalBike releases 2024 Bike Summit Agenda
The biannual Bike Summit will take place April 18-19 in San Diego, and it's packed.
March 15, 2024
Safety Activists Close a Lane on Franklin
Advocates, fed up with SFMTA's lack of action, closed one lane on one block outside Sherman Elementary. But the city that claims to never have resources to build safe streets turned it back into a surface-level freeway later the same morning
March 15, 2024
Urbanists’ Doug Burgum Lovefest Shows the ‘Why’ Behind Our Advocacy
I am far less interested in talking about Gov. Doug Burgum's politics than talking about his values, and how those values shape his urbanism, and thus the actual lives of the people he governs.
March 15, 2024
Superhero of Safer 17th
Streetsblog talks with Peter Belden, an independent advocate who helped lead the effort for a safer 17th
March 14, 2024
Peter Flax: ‘Cyclist Strength Comes from Unity’
The writer's new book, "Live to Ride: Finding Joy and Meaning on a Bicycle," is a broad look at bike riding with one common theme: we must come together.
March 13, 2024
CalBike Summit Preview: Complete Streets Bill Would Require Caltrans to Implement Its Own Policies
Caltrans districts and local cities have bike and pedestrian safety plans, but too often Caltrans uses excuses - including cost and delay - to avoid following them. This bill would stop that practice.
March 6, 2024
