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New Report Quantifies Five Years of Caltrans Freeway Expansion, including Demolitions
Between 2018 and 2023, Caltrans tore down 623 homes and businesses, to make way for 553 new miles of highway lanes
March 5, 2025
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
Yes, There Are Real People Who Got an E-Bike Voucher from the State
Yes, there are real people who got e-bike savings vouchers from the state.
February 28, 2025
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
