Recent Streetsblog SF posts about California

CA Voters Vote on a Swath of Transportation Measures Today

By Melanie Curry | Nov 4, 2014 | No Comments

While you’re standing in line waiting for your turn to vote, be glad that you don’t have to weigh in on every fiscal measure on the ballot. According to the California Taxpayer’s Association, Californians will vote today on over 200 measures that propose to raise money via bonds or taxes for a variety of services. […]

CA Environmental Groups Grade Legislators

By Melanie Curry | Oct 31, 2014 | No Comments

It’s scorecard season in California. Advocacy groups are giving grades to legislators based on how they voted on bills in the last year’s sessions, and releasing the scores just in time to influence next week’s election. The California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV) and the Sierra Club both scored legislators according to how they voted on environmental […]

CA’s “Hidden Gas Tax” That Doesn’t Exist

By Melanie Curry | Oct 28, 2014 | No Comments

You may have seen the ads on Facebook, or on one of the roving billboards being pulled by a gasoline-powered truck. They warned darkly of a coming “hidden tax” on fuel that was so hidden nobody in the media was talking about it. You may have wondered what it meant, even as the ads urged […]

Four CA Colleges Win 2014 Bicycle Friendly University Awards

By Melanie Curry | Oct 22, 2014 | No Comments

Congratulations to several California colleges that won 2014 Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) awards from the League of American Bicyclists. Thirteen California colleges have made the list in the last few years. New this year are the University of California, Santa Cruz, which won a Silver-level award, and Pomona College and Santa Monica College, which both won Bronze. The University […]

CalBike Looks Back at the Year in Progress for Bicycling in California

By Ryan Price | Oct 21, 2014 | No Comments

Editor’s note: Here’s the California Bicycle Coalition’s (CalBike) post-session wrap-up of its efforts to promote bicycling through state legislation, authored by CalBike’s Ryan Price. It was originally posted on CalBike’s website. We edited it slightly for length. California is poised to become one of the most bike-innovative states in the nation. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) got […]

Thoughts at a Workshop On Replacing CA’s Gas Tax With a Mileage Fee

By Joe Linton | Oct 9, 2014 | No Comments

Earlier this week, I attended a California Sustainable Transportation Funding Workshop, hosted by Caltrans, Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), the California Transportation Commission (CTC), and the Mileage-Based User Fee Alliance (MBUFA). The half-day program focused on how the state of California could shift from our current gas tax funding stream to one based on […]

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