Recent Streetsblog SF posts about State Assembly

Caltrans on the Hot Seat: Assembly Looks at State, Local Planning Tensions

By Melanie Curry | Mar 5, 2014 | No Comments

It was the California State Assembly’s turn to review the recent State Smart Transportation Initiative (SSTI) report on Caltrans at a Transportation Committee hearing Monday. The discussion played out along the same lines as the Senate Transportation Committee hearing last month, where Professor Joel Rogers, who led the team that produced the report for the California Transportation […]

CA Legislation Watch: Bills Introduced That Could Impact Livable Streets

By Melanie Curry | Feb 25, 2014 | No Comments

The deadline to introduce new bills to the California legislature was Friday, so a slew of new legislation is currently being assigned to committees for hearing. Some of them are so-called “spot” bills, as in “hold a spot in line for me, bub,” containing a bare minimum of information, with the plan being to shape […]

Legislative Wrap: How Livable Streets Bills Fared in Sacramento

By Damien Newton | Sep 16, 2013 | No Comments

Last week was a busy one in Sacramento as lawmakers scrambled to compromise and pass important pieces of legislation while others will have to “wait ’til next year.” Streetsblog offers the following scorecard for some of the most important pieces of legislation that will impact the drive to create livable streets. We’re putting the bill’s […]

New “Kings Arena” CEQA Bill Would Still Nix LOS in “Transit Priority Areas”

By Damien Newton | Sep 13, 2013 | No Comments

Steinberg’s hasty press conference held after the passage of SB 743 Last night, both California’s Senate and Assembly passed SB 743, Senator Darrell Steinberg’s legislation that replaced his original CEQA reform bill, SB 731, which promised to end the reign of Level of Service (LOS) in California urban planning. SB 743 would still eliminate of LOS to […]

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Draft CA Budget Ups Bike/Ped Funds, Leaves Safe Routes to School in Doubt

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 11, 2013 | No Comments

The budget proposed yesterday by Governor Jerry Brown and state lawmakers includes a new “Active Transportation Program” that would increase overall funding for walking and biking improvements but may put California’s Safe Routes to Schools program at risk. Under the proposed ATP, currently separate funding streams would be consolidated into one larger program, increasing the overall pot […]

Third Iteration of 3-Foot Bike Passing Bill Heads to Assembly Committee

By Damien Newton | Apr 19, 2013 | No Comments

The pomp and circumstance for the most recent effort to mandate a 3-feet passing distance for cars overtaking bicyclists is noticeably more quiet than the past two years. Whatever the reason, perhaps cyclists aren’t willing to get their hopes up again after Governor Jerry Brown’s two incoherent veto messages in 2012 and 2011, the statewide […]

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