Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Regional Agencies

Eyes on the Street: At Santa Ana Crossroads, Residents Try Protected Bike Lane Demo

By Kristopher Fortin | Oct 27, 2017 | No Comments

Santa Ana resident Martin Mares remembers when he was 8 years old riding his bike on Hazard Avenue sidewalks to get to soccer practice. Mares, who grew up near the intersection of Euclid and Hazard, never questioned why he chose the sidewalk; he knew only that the street felt unsafe to ride. “No way would […]

More than 15,000 people came out to Garden Grove's third open streets event. All photos by Kristopher Fortin

15,000+ Bicyclists, Pedestrians Come Out to Garden Grove’s 3rd Open Streets Event

By Kristopher Fortin | Apr 6, 2017 | No Comments

More than 15,000 people came out to bike and walk in Garden Grove's Open Streets event on Saturday. The 2.5-mile route stretched from Main Street to West Street and had some streets closed to cars, streets with mixed traffic, and a one-mile pop-up protected bike lane.

L.A.'s air quality is famously poor. Photo by David Iliff. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0

Act Locally – A Call for our State and Local Leaders to Protect Our Air Quality

By Adrian Martinez | Feb 2, 2017 | 1 Comment

Tomorrow, the South Coast Air Quality Management District will vote on a long-term regional clean air plan for the four counties under its jurisdiction. The plan as currently written contains few new mandatory measures to reduce pollution, instead focusing on voluntary measures and an ineffective, easily-gamed market-based pollution control mechanism.

ClimatePlan Studies SCAG’s Progress on Climate Change

By Melanie Curry | Jul 18, 2016 | 5 Comments

Can California meet its climate change goals? A.B. 32, which set in motion the state’s current climate change policies including cap and trade, is set to expire in 2020. The legislature and the governor are taking up the question of what’s next. Do we continue down the same path? Adjust our policies? Scrap them entirely […]