The current e-bike incentive program is in the process of being set up, but it only has $10 million available, including administrative costs. That could provide between 3,000 and 7,000 vouchers - a drop in the bucket in a state as big as California.
Other conversations of interest in the Assembly Transportation Commission included a bill to shift transportation funding towards "priority populations" and the annual attempt to take funding away from the high-speed rail program
28 new projects to receive the money from the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital program. This "closes out the first wave of a historic infusion of state funding to expand transit and passenger rail service" in California.
Some of America's most prominent sustainable transportation advocacy organizations are challenging governments to embrace a ground-breaking technology that makes it impossible for drivers to speed — starting with the vehicles in their own fleets.
"I'm sick of it," said District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar, addressing a crowd of some 60 people Tuesday morning on the steps of San Francisco City Hall at a rally for protected bike lanes on Arguello.
America is at a watershed moment in the fight to heal the harms of urban freeways that tore apart predominantly BIPOC and low-income communities, a new report argues — but what that healing will look like, exactly, is still an open question.
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