Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Orange County

Edgar Arellano, Anaheim resident, rides on the City of Santa Ana's first protected bike lane on Bristol Street. Kristopher Fortin/Streetsblog CA

Santa Ana’s First Protected Bike Lane! . . . Is the Result of a Street Widening

By Kristopher Fortin | Apr 26, 2018 | 3 Comments

One good does not cancel out a bad. And in the case of the freshly installed (and almost completed) protected bike lane on Bristol Street in Santa Ana, a lot of bad preceded this hallmark moment. The city started installing the Bristol Street protected bike lane over the weekend between Seventeenth Street and Washington Boulevard. […]

Goal of the game is NOT to have the car as close to the bicyclist as it is in this image. Image: OCTA

Orange County Transportation Agency Offers a New Training Device for Drivers

By Kristopher Fortin | Apr 9, 2018 | 4 Comments

Play It Safe! is a throwback video game that reminds drivers about rules on bicycle/pedestrian safety

Photo by Russell Bynum, from LongBeachize

OC Roundup: Board of Supervisors Balk on Homeless Shelters, OCTA to Purchase Streetcar Vehicles

By Kristopher Fortin | Mar 30, 2018 | No Comments

Orange County has been headlining state and national news for the past months--especially last week--because of the way the region is dealing, or not, with its homeless crisis.

High school students present their ideas for how they would connect Harbor Boulevard with Disneyland Drive. More than 125 girls particpated in this year's Girls' Engineering Day in Orange County. All photos by Kristopher Fortin/Streetsblog CA

Annual Program for Girls Shows What it Takes to Be a Transportation Engineer

By Kristopher Fortin | Mar 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

Here was an opportunity for more than 125 girls who attended the fourth annual Girls Engineering Day in Orange County to practice thinking like an engineer and to work with professional engineers

Image: UCI Community Resilience Projects

Study: Cap-and-Trade-Funded Projects Overstate Benefits to Disadvantaged Communities

By Kristopher Fortin | Feb 27, 2018 | 8 Comments

Many regional projects that get funding from cap-and-trade may not provide direct benefits to the disadvantaged communities they claim to be helping.

Transit recommendations in OCTA's Transit Master Plan. The plan proposes improvements to transit based on density. Image: OCTA

O.C. Draft Transit Master Plan Moves through Committee

By Kristopher Fortin | Feb 9, 2018 | 1 Comment

Major decisions on Orange County's transit future and key bicycle and pedestrian projects will be decided at Monday's OCTA Board meeting.

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