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Zbur Introduces Legislation Requiring Quick-Build Bike Lanes on State Highways
AB 891 is sponsored by the California Bicycle Coalition (CalBike) who note that the bill will allow projects to be moved on the ground faster and reduce planning and engineering costs.
March 4, 2025
Where Metro and Caltrans Are Widening L.A. Freeways, Sabotaging the Climate, Fanning the Flames
Climate disruption is here. Right now. It's past time that Southern California transportation heavyweights - Metro and Caltrans - stop making the situation worse
January 16, 2025
CA Envisions a Zero-Emission, Connected Rail Network by 2050
And this time the CA State Rail Plan's vision for an electrified, connected network doesn't dismiss catenary wire out of hand.
January 8, 2025
California Transportation Commission Relents, Adds Complete Streets Requirements to Funding Program Guidelines
The State Highway Operations and Protection Program (SHOPP), the state's largest highway funding program, makes some moves to include S.B. 960 requirements
December 11, 2024
Caltrans Breaks Ground on Vallejo ‘Diverging Diamond’ Deathtrap
Are engineers at the state transportation agency intentionally trying to kill cyclists, are they incompetent, or both?
December 4, 2024
How Caltrans Measures Induced Travel: Comments Open Through Friday
Two key documents that address the ways Caltrans measures and accounts for new travel induced by their projects are being finalized this week.
November 20, 2024
Eyes on the Street: 57/60 Freeway Confluence Construction in Progress
New off-ramps have begun to sprout out of the dirt, and widening surface streets are going through the growing pains of construction closures
November 7, 2024
Metro/Caltrans 105 Freeway ExpressLanes Project Would Expand Freeway, Add Pollution to Already Burdened Communities
Metro and Caltrans are planning to expand the current ten-lane 105 Freeway to twelve lanes, plus adding new auxiliary lanes, widening ramps, and widening streets.
October 31, 2024
California Transportation Commission Is Ignoring Complete Streets Law
CTC is pushing to finish SHOPP guidelines before the Complete Streets law goes into effect.
October 21, 2024
Report Details the Unfulfilled Promise of Complete Streets in Caltrans Projects
The following post first appeared at CalBike.
September 30, 2024
