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Community Groups Showcase Disease Prevention at Orange County Forum
Orange County received $4.1 million from the CDC to support government, education, and nonprofit entities working in Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and Anaheim on disease prevention. The projects that came out of these partnerships ranged from traditional—nutrition education and physical activity promotion—to boldly forward-thinking—funding the installation and design of a bicycle boulevard.
May 31, 2017
Bike Month: OCTA’s Annual Bike Rally
More than thirty cyclists came out to OCTA's Bike Rally Thursday morning at Orange Station. The roughly 3.5-mile route cut through Old Town Orange using side streets and the Santiago River Trail Bike Path.
May 19, 2017
BTWD in Orange County Showcases Santa Ana Bike Infrastructure Successes
Caltrans hosted its own Bike to Work Day in Santa Ana to showcase some of the work it's doing to improve biking infrastructure in downtown.
May 17, 2017
Downtown Modesto Ups its Crosswalk Game
Modesto unveiled a new art installation last Friday, and to enjoy it, all people have to do is look down at their feet. If these new crosswalks help make it safer to cross the street, so much the better.
May 16, 2017
City of San Mateo to Host Public Meetings on Controversial 101 Interchange Project
The City of San Mateo will host a pair of community meetings next week in San Mateo and Burlingame over the proposed 101/Peninsula Avenue Interchange project which would relocate on-ramps and off-ramps to eliminate the partial interchange and create a single, full-access interchange at Peninsula and Airport Boulevard.
May 15, 2017
Bike Month: Modesto
The city of Modesto has worked to improve it bicycling culture by improving its infrastructure, and gets to celebrate that on Bike to Work Day.
May 12, 2017
OCTA Budget Outlook: Balanced, But Problems Loom
Money from S.B.1 will allow OCTA to avoid deep service cuts on it buses, but if ridership continues decreasing, there will be hard choices to make in the future.
May 10, 2017
Bike Month Comes to Orange County
Bike Month in Orange County includes free Metrolink rides during Bike to Work Week, and early morning bike rally, a chance to ride with Caltrans, and the annual Ride of Silence.
May 8, 2017
OC Streetcar to Receive $50 Million in Federal Funding
The OC Streetcar got a reprieve this week when it was included in Congress's recently agreed-upon funding package. If it is signed by President Trump, the Garden Grove-to-Santa Ana streetcar project would receive $50 million from the federal New Starts program, which faces an uncertain future under the current administration.
May 5, 2017
At Long Last, Berkeley Gets an Updated Bike Plan
As it closed in on midnight, the Berkeley City Council unanimously approved the Berkeley Bike Plan, which seeks to build a network of safe, connected bikeways throughout the city to encourage more people to ride bikes.
May 4, 2017
