Melanie Curry
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Oil Industry Tries a New Tack: Blowing Smoke at CA’s Climate Change Policies
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The major lobby group for the California oil industry has launched a new, and particularly dimwitted, effort to denigrate California’s climate change policies. Californians for Affordable and Reliable Energy, or CARE, one of the Western States Petroleum Association’s front groups (as reported in Streetsblog several years ago), started a new website that purports to show […]
Today’s Headlines
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CA Legislative Analyst Office releases initial comments on governor’s proposed budget (LAO) Want jobs? Build bike lanes (Fast Company) Coronado is scrapping its bike plan, putting all new bike lanes on hold, starting over (KPBS) This writer believes congestion is the #1 environmental problem in San Diego County (and that wider roads will fix it) […]
Governor’s Budget Revision: Nothing New for Transportation
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Governor Brown issued his May revision of the state budget proposal, and in terms of transportation, it’s pretty much the same story we told in January. That is, he proposes a variety of new revenues, including a “road improvement charge” and higher gas taxes, to fix California’s transportation infrastructure. But the revision shows no fundamental […]
#DamienTalksSGV 9 – The State of Bike Planning in the SGV with Wes Reutimann
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This week, #DamienTalks with Wes Reutimann, the executive director of Bike SGV. With Bike Month nearly half over, it seemed as good a time as any to get an update on the state of bicycle advocacy in the San Gabriel Valley. Of course we discuss the open streets mega-event 626, but there’s a lot of […]
Bike to Work Day Part One: Open Thread
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Today is Bike to Work Day in some parts of California, including the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas. That means: lots of bikes on the road—maybe more than usual, maybe not—but also lots of smiles, bike-bell-ringing, and high fives all around for everyone who chooses to use this most environmentally friendly way to get […]
Bike Month: Santa Cruz Celebrates its 29th Bike to Work Day
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I stand corrected. Last week I reported that San Diego, or perhaps the East Bay, has had the longest-running Bike to Work Day celebration in California at 22 years. While that’s impressive, it turns out that Santa Cruz has been commemorating Bike to Work Day since 1987—so next year will be the 30th anniversary of […]
Bike Month in the Rest of the Bay Area: This Party is No Joke
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Streetsblog California has been looking around the state to see how local communities are celebrating Bike Month. Damien Newton did a podcast about Fresno’s activities, and so far we previewed Sacramento’s May Is Bike Month celebration as well as Alameda and Contra Costa counties, on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. Today we look […]
Bike Month in the East Bay: Where Bike to Work Day Began?
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It’s generally acknowledged that Bike to Work Day was started by the League of American Bicyclists—then called the League of American Wheelmen—in 1956. Rumor has it (can anyone confirm this?) that in California the first Bike to Work Day event took place in San Diego circa 1993. What’s indisputable is that Bike East Bay, then […]
Oakland’s New Parking Protected Bike Lanes Are Challenging to Some
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With a road diet, new parking configuration, and protected bike lanes on Telegraph Avenue, Oakland is saying to its car drivers: slow down, take it easy. And to its bike riders: you’re welcome here and safe. Not everyone is listening. The new parking-protected bike lanes have been in place for a week. In that time, […]
SF Bicycle Coalition’s “Bike Talks” Series
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Monday evening, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition held the second of its first three scheduled “Bike Talks,” a series it plans to continue to foster discussion and help shape its advocacy. Here’s how the SFBC describes the meetings: Here at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, we know our members love to dig deep on the […]
Bike Month: Celebrating the Bike Ride in California: Sacramento Area
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It’s Bike Month, hurray! Time to get out there and join your fellow bike riders to celebrate this awesome travel device that also generates smiles, increases health, improves air quality, and fixes lots of other problems in cities. Every city and region in the state does Bike Month a little bit differently. Although National Bike […]
Beall Proposal Tries To End California Transportation Funding Stalemate
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Last year, Governor Brown called a “Special Session” to prod the California legislature to find solutions to what seemed an intractable problem: how to fund transportation needs in the state. Some bills were introduced, some hearings were held, but the biggest result of all the ballyhoo is a confirmation that the problem is, indeed, intractable. […]