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Legislation Would Allow Metro to Add Fee to Olympic/World Cup Tickets
“A.B. 1237 will provide sports fans participating in the World Cup, Olympic and Paralympic Games with an easy way to utilize transit when attending these sporting events, reduce traffic congestion, improve local air quality and provide critical support for local transit services"
February 27, 2025
CalBike’s 2025 Legislative Agenda
We'll continue to highlight a couple of bills every week that have major implications (if they become law), but in the meantime CalBike has a not-quite-exhaustive list of some of the most important mobility bills in the legislature.
February 26, 2025
New Legislation Would Ask Voters to Approve $20 Billion Bond for Transit and Active Transportation
Last week, newly-elected Assemblymember Nick Shultz introduced Assembly Bill 939, which would place a bond on the November 3, 2026 statewide ballot to fund sustainable transportation throughout California.
February 25, 2025
What DOT Secretary Duffy has wrong about California High-Speed Rail
Cost issues are not limited to transit. The US spends 2-3 times more per project on highways than peer high income countries, and highway construction costs recently increased 50% in just two years. Is Secretary Duffy going to cancel all highway funding too until he figures out what's going on?
February 25, 2025
Can CA Go It Alone on High-Speed Rail?
New legislation is intended to explore that issue
February 24, 2025
Op-Ed: Supes Should Stop Mayor from Removing Carter-Oberstone from Police Commission
Removing him would be a step backwards for safety
The post Op-Ed: Supes Should Stop Mayor from Removing Carter-Oberstone from Police Commission appeared first on Streetsblog San Francisco.
Scott Feeney
February 24, 2025
Sen. Ben Allen Moves to Protect California’s Freshwater
Environmentalists throughout the country…no throughout the world…have discovered in recent years that it can no longer count on America’s federal government for help stewarding this world. Nowhere is that more true in the battle to protect clean, freshwater, especially in California.
February 21, 2025
Protestors Disrupt USDOT Secretary’s Attack on California High-Speed Rail
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced a federal investigation into California High-Speed Rail "waste, fraud, and abuse"
February 20, 2025
Wiener Introduces Legislation to Speed-Up Permitting for Major Transit Projects – Including High-Speed Rail
“Public transportation is critical to California’s future, but a broken permit process has eroded Californians’ trust in transit agencies’ ability to deliver projects on time and on budget.”
February 19, 2025
CalBike Summit Session This Thursday: Creative Approaches to Funding Active Transportation Infrastructure
It’s time to get creative when planning how to fund active transportation in California.
February 18, 2025
