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Proposed East Bay Bike-Share Sites Announced
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Note: This story has been corrected since it was originally posted. Thank you to sharp-eyed readers. Bay Area Bike Share released a map of proposed sites for bike-share stations in the East Bay today. Proposed sites for expansion into San Francisco and San Jose have already been released, but these are the first ones for […]
California Legislative Update: Bikes, Transit, Environmental Justice, More
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Today is the deadline to pass any policy bills that have a fiscal impact out of all California legislative committees, so the last two weeks have seen a flurry of long hearings. Here’s a quick recap of pertinent bills. BIKES Riding side-by-side is okay: Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) has a bill, A.B. 2509, that […]
Eyes on the Street: Telegraph Avenue Gets Green Paint
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Telegraph Avenue in Oakland is finally getting its long-awaited separated bike lanes. Crews were out adding the first touches of green paint. In the next week or so, they will continue painting the section of Telegraph between 21st and 27th, Oakland’s first experiment with parking-separated bike lanes. Bike East Bay will have ambassadors on the […]
Transportation Equity Bills Defeated in Assembly Transpo Committee
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Two bills that had the potential to increase equity in transportation planning died yesterday for lack of support. A.B. 1982 would have created two positions on the California Transportation Commission (CTC) for representatives of low-income communities. A.B. 2332 would have required Caltrans to follow its own guidelines on incorporating complete streets concepts into all projects, […]
Bill to Eliminate Free Parking Could Help Disabled People Find a Spot
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Assemblymember Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) has introduced a bill that would require some people with disabled parking permits to pay, rather than park for free as long as they want. If it works, A.B. 2602 could free up parking spots for every driver, including disabled people who most need them. It could also potentially discourage […]
Transportation Committee Hears Bills: Active Transpo, High-Speed Rail, More
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A marathon hearing in the Assembly Transportation Committee yesterday was a sign of looming deadlines in the California legislature. It was also an illustration of the strange and sometimes surreal world in which California’s laws are debated and created. An hour before the hearing, a coalition of groups working on equity and transportation presented a […]
Streetsblog California: It’s Our First Anniversary!
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As of yesterday, Streetsblog California has been publishing for an entire year already. During that time, we provided regular updates on the goings on in Sacramento related to transportation, while covering good bills and bad, oversight hearings, and budget negotiations. We explained wonky policy debates on parking, CEQA, and transportation funding, and kept an eye […]
CA Transportation Funding Should Reflect State Goals
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Transportation funding in California has, as SBCA readers must know by now, reached a “crisis.” Shrinking gas tax revenues, combined with an increasing reliance on local sales taxes limited to specific transportation projects, have left our overbuilt and under-maintained highways, roads, and bridges without enough funds to keep them in a basic state of good repair. […]
A Few Good Bills
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Continuing our coverage of bills making their way through the California legislative session, today we’re highlighting some bills that we like. Some of these will likely be heard first at the Assembly Transportation Committee this Monday, April 11. Firstly, the state budget is undergoing its usual complicated negotiation process. It is made more complex because […]
Today’s Headlines
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Video: Caltrans launches in-house bike-share for employees in downtown Sacramento (YouTube) More pondering about why bike-share isn’t killing anyone (City Lab) (Momentum Mag) Transportation sales taxes: How high is too high? (Planetizen) The high costs of parking requirements (City Observatory) San Francisco neighbors get help from the city to transform alleys into pleasant spaces (Hoodline) […]
Today’s Headlines
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Santa Monica’s bike share is ready for the Expo line opening (Global Green) Berkeley develops “Resiliency Strategy” (Berkeleyside) Study looks at why bike share is so much safer than “regular biking” (Vox) People who live in walkable neighborhoods get more exercise (Science Codex) Two reports find that California’s climate change policies will save residents money […]
Shortest bike lane in California?
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Pleasanton, California may have just created the shortest bike lane in the state. It’s one short block long, on Parkside between Cheryl and Arthur roads. You can see from the map above that the neighborhood is full of loop roads that don’t connect to much. In fact, Parkside is really the only way through here, […]