Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Transportation Funding

TransForm/CalBike Summit Tackles Transportation Equity, Including Funding

By Melanie Curry | May 20, 2016 | 1 Comment

In a wide-ranging conversation at the TransForm/CalBike Equity Summit, Malcolm Dougherty kept right on saying things that advocates are not used to hearing from the director of Caltrans. He reiterated Caltrans’ commitment to its goals of tripling biking trips and doubling the number of walking trips in the state. He said that California is investing […]

Governor’s Budget Revision: Nothing New for Transportation

By Melanie Curry | May 13, 2016 | 3 Comments

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 […]

CA Transportation Funding Should Reflect State Goals

By Melanie Curry | Apr 7, 2016 | 13 Comments

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. […]

An Early Look at Local Transportation Sales Tax Measures in CA

By Melanie Curry | Mar 18, 2016 | 7 Comments

Three California counties are considering transportation sales tax initiatives for the upcoming November ballot. Los Angeles Metro just announced its proposed expenditure plan today; Contra Costa is working on a draft proposal, and Santa Clara county has developed a scoresheet to help prioritize potential projects according to agreed-upon goals. Sacramento, Stanislaus, and San Francisco have […]

Legislative Update: CalBike Agenda for 2016

By Melanie Curry | Mar 3, 2016 | 3 Comments

The California Bicycle Coalition, aka CalBike, continues to push for increasing funding for the Active Transportation Program, which currently receives $120 million per year. The bike coalition wants the state to add $100 million to the program, which sounds like a lot but is roughly one percent of the total transportation budget—even though bike and […]

BoE Vice Chair George Runner Wants to Kill Public Transportation

By Melanie Curry | Feb 16, 2016 | 12 Comments

George Runner, former California Senator, husband of current California Senator Sharon Runner, and current elected member of the California Board of Equalization, is doing his best to kill public transportation in the state. In an article in Saturday’s Sacramento Bee he opines that the state is wasting money on public transportation that nobody wants, and […]

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