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Legislature Rejects Governor’s Proposed Cuts to Active Transportation, Intercity Rail

A quick review of what the legislature wants in the transportation budget

May 30, 2024

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.

May 29, 2024

Active Transportation Program Cut Because Administration Wants to Prioritize Highways

The Newsom administration wants to cut the ATP because Caltrans is tired of having its state highway funding tapped.

May 16, 2024

Governor Announces “May Revise” Budget Proposal

Active Transportation Program is gutted - unnecessarily

May 10, 2024

Governor Newsom’s “Climate Commitment” Does Not Include Active Transportation

The state is committed to climate investments, but one of its best climate programs - the ATP - is apparently dispensable

January 12, 2024

Good News in the State Budget: Active Transportation Program Funding Restored

In the end, when Governor Newsom signed the budget, the claw-back of ATP funds was gone.

July 7, 2023

There’s a Budget with Transit Funding, But Negotiations Aren’t Over

The question isn't really whether Newsom will sign off; the question is what will end up in "trailer bills" - which, as their name suggests, trail along after the budget is signed and fill in details left out of the budget itself.

June 16, 2023

Governor Newsom’s Urgency on Infrastructure Is Not About Climate (It’s About Money)

The administration frames its proposal as urgently needed for the state to make good on its climate and clean energy goals - or lose out on federal funding.

June 12, 2023

State Leaders Rally for Transit Funding in Budget

With only a few weeks left to finalize a budget, transit agencies warn they may have to make deep service cuts as soon as this summer

May 30, 2023