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Take Action: Complete Streets Bill Now on Governor Newsom’s Desk

By Dave Snyder, Executive Director, California Bicycle Coalition and Linda Khamoushian, California Bicycle Coalition | Sep 19, 2019 | No Comments

S.B. 127 needs your support

Quick Legislative Update: Current Status of Some Transportation, Housing Bills

By Melanie Curry | Sep 12, 2019 | 3 Comments

Complete Streets, e-bikes, CEQA exemptions, housing development, tenant rights--there's a lot going on in Sacramento

Adetokunbo Toks Omishakin, newly appointed director of Caltrans. Image: Transportation for America

Caltrans’ New Director: Toks Omishakin Has Credentials in Active Transportation

By Melanie Curry | Sep 4, 2019 | 7 Comments

What Caltrans needs is a leader who understands why biking and walking and transit are important and why these modes need multilayered, outspoken support.

Breaking Down Caltrans’ Cost Estimate of the Complete Streets Bill

By Melanie Curry | Aug 30, 2019 | 8 Comments

Back-of-the-envelope calculations do not add up

Would adding safety elements to this street, at the same time as ongoing repair, really cost $4.5m per mile, Caltrans?

Complete Streets Bill Threatened by Tardy, Unspecified, Absurd Cost Estimates

By Melanie Curry | Aug 16, 2019 | 15 Comments

Department of Finance analysis says safe streets for all are too expensive. Also that they're already being made safer (do you feel safer?). So, which is it? Both can't be true.

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Whoop-De-Doo Paint Added to Oakland Hellscape

By Roger Rudick | Aug 15, 2019 | No Comments

Streetsblog receives a matrix of responses to its critique of the 23rd and 29th Avenue over-crossings in Oakland

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