Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Active Transportation Program

San Mateo’s Highway 101/92 Interchange Eyed for Expansion

By Andrew Boone | Nov 16, 2016 | No Comments

More traffic going into more lanes for hundreds of millions of dollars rather than investing in potential transit solutions is, sadly, still business as usual in San Mateo County.

Today’s Headlines

By Melanie Curry | Nov 16, 2016 | No Comments

SF’s Van Ness Avenue set for 3-year BRT construction; first, no more left-turn pockets (SFGate) AAA predicts busiest Thanksgiving travel in nine years (Mercury News) Kern County transit to be run by National Express Transit (Mass Transit) USDOT awards $11M to UC Berkeley and San Francisco to reduce congestion (California Magazine) That rise in traffic […]

ATP Funding Recommendations: Fewer and Larger Projects This Cycle

By Melanie Curry | Nov 1, 2016 | No Comments

California Transportation Commission staff released their recommendations for projects to be funded in the 2017 round of the Active Transportation Program (ATP) yesterday. These recommendations will go to the full Commission for official adoption at its December meeting in Riverside. The recommendations are for projects applying for money under the “Statewide” and “Small Urban and […]

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The Legacy of S.B. 375: Transforming Planning to Transform California

By Melanie Curry | Oct 26, 2016 | 7 Comments

Climate Plan, a coalition of more than fifty nonprofits working on California climate policies, released a report [PDF] about what we’ve learned from S.B. 375, one of California’s policy efforts to grapple with climate change. The coalition held a day of presentations in Sacramento on Monday to celebrate the release. Presenters—people who’ve been working in […]

Active Transportation Program Gets a Little More Money, With a Few Strings

By Melanie Curry | Oct 7, 2016 | 5 Comments

The most recent cap-and-trade allocation bill, A.B. 1613, allots $10 million to the Active Transportation Program. The money comes with a few strings attached. Any projects funded by cap-and-trade have to show that they reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Also, the money must be allocated by 2018 and spent by 2020. This is not likely to […]

Park(ing) Day in North Orange County: A New, Welcome Experience

By Kristopher Fortin | Sep 19, 2016 | 1 Comment

Lynk Gibson, 7, grabbed a thick blue marker from a bin and started drawing onto a board with a footprint outline while his 4-year-old brother Nolan looked on at his side. Krystin Gibson, the boys’ mother, handed Nolan a marker and directed him where to draw. The boys gravitated toward a jenga set nearby, while staff […]

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