Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Budget

Gavin Newsom delivers his first budget speech as Governor of California. Image: Screengrab from CATV

Newsom’s State Budget Connects Housing Needs and Transportation Funding

By Melanie Curry | Jan 10, 2019 | 7 Comments

But details are a bit murky

S.B. 1 needed 54 votes in the Assembly to pass, and this was how the vote looked for a good five minutes at the end of the night. Assemblymembers Cooper, Grayson, and Muratsuchi eventually voted yes.

Transportation Funding Bill Passes with Closed-Door Deals and Public Posturing

By Melanie Curry | Apr 7, 2017 | 18 Comments

All afternoon the Senate and Assembly had hosted “debates” on the bill, but those served mainly as an opportunity for grandstanding. Most minds had been made up, and the real negotiations, to convince the few undecided votes, was going on behind closed doors.

CA Legislative Update: ATP, Bikes, and Budget

By Melanie Curry | Jun 1, 2016 | 3 Comments

California budget negotiations have moved into high gear with the naming of Senate and Assembly members to the bicameral budget conference committee. Leaders of the two bodies named five members each—up from three in previous years—and the conference committee held its first hearing this morning. The committee’s job is to find agreement among the three […]

PIRG: L.A.’s Proposed Freight Highway Tunnel Among Country’s Worst Projects

By Damien Newton | Jan 20, 2016 | 4 Comments

Yesterday, the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), a national non-profit with state chapters throughout the country, released a report detailing the “12 biggest highway boondoggles” under study in the country. Not surprisingly, a California highway project made the list, the I-710 Tunnel Project in Los Angeles County. PIRG explains the project. San Gabriel Valley Route […]

Brown’s Budget Proposal Weak on Sustainable Transportation

By Melanie Curry | Jan 8, 2016 | 1 Comment

Governor Jerry Brown announced his proposed state budget for 2016-17 in Sacramento yesterday. His transportation funding proposals include a few new ideas, but the budget represents precious little change to the status quo. The budget does not reflect any profound rethinking of how we fund transportation, a disappointment for those hoping for change after the recent climate change […]