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Statewide Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan Seeks Your Ideas, Thoughts

By Melanie Curry | Oct 28, 2016 | 3 Comments

Caltrans is making some progress on its first-ever statewide bicycle and pedestrian plan. The progress is happening at a Caltrans pace, but it is coming along. Two workshops were held this week to discuss what’s been done so far: the draft vision, goals, and objectives. An online survey seeks input on what needs to be […]

CalBike Reminds Local Leaders: It’s Okay to Build Protected Bike Lanes

By Melanie Curry | Sep 9, 2016 | 1 Comment

The California Bicycle Coalition launched an unusual campaign this week to inform local leaders that building protected bikeways is not only allowed, but encouraged. In the past designing and building separated or protected bike lanes was deemed too difficult or impossible because of Caltrans’ disapproval. The state planning department, although it doesn’t control every local […]

Caltrans Report: Speeding and Aggressive Driving Cause Most Crashes

By Melanie Curry | Sep 2, 2016 | 5 Comments

Caltrans crunched four-year-old collision data from the California Highway Patrol and found that nearly twenty percent of traffic-related fatalities and severe injuries are speed-related. In the 2013 report, the most recent year for which data is available, more than 71,000 collisions were attributed to speeding. Likewise, rear-end collisions occurred far more often than “sideswipes,” the […]

New Transportation Funding Plan: A Hot Mess, With Some Active Transp $

By Melanie Curry | Aug 25, 2016 | 1 Comment

After several weeks of rumors, legislative leaders of the Special Session on Transportation and Infrastructure have released their proposal for a funding plan that shows how much compromise it can take to get an agreement. The bill, S.B. X1-1 and A.B. X1-26, is co-authored by Senator Jim Beall (D-Campbell) and Assemblymember Jim Frazier (D-Oakley), the […]

Why You Should Care About Statewide Transportation Plan Guidelines

By Melanie Curry | Aug 5, 2016 | 1 Comment

Today is the deadline for commenting on California’s draft Regional Transportation Plan guidelines. Why should you care about some wonky planning process? Because funding. Wait, no: Because there are no good transit options near you. Because you don’t dare ride a bike because you have to ride on or cross streets packed with speeding, careless […]

Caltrans Inches Toward a New Paradigm, Part One: New Ped/Bike Safety Chief

By Melanie Curry | Jul 7, 2016 | 12 Comments

Caltrans has always said that one of its main concerns was the safety of road users, but its focus has been squarely on people in cars, to the detriment of others. The department developed a notion of safety that led it to encourage straightening and widening roads in response to high speeds and crashes, which […]

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