Recent Streetsblog SF posts about California

Steinberg: CA Cap-and-Trade Must Fund Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing

By Melanie Curry | May 19, 2014 | No Comments

Negotiations over the California state budget are producing dueling proposals on how best to spend revenue from the state’s cap-and-trade program. While Governor Jerry Brown continues to call for a third of the cap-and-trade funds to go to CA high-speed rail, Senate President ProTem Darrell Steinberg last week expanded upon his alternative proposal to spend a […]

California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update

By Melanie Curry | May 16, 2014 | No Comments

Here is Streetsblog’s weekly highlight of California legislation and events related to sustainable transportation. This week, many of the bills that Streetsblog has been tracking are waiting for the budget committees to work through them, so there hasn’t been a lot of action. Traffic violations in school zones: S.B. 1151, Anthony Canella (R-Ceres), sailed through […]

CA’s Regional Agency Reps Tout Increased Ped Safety Funding in Sacramento

By Melanie Curry | May 15, 2014 | No Comments

The Peds Count! 2014 Summit kicked off in Sacramento with a panel of top-level executives from regional planning agencies celebrating their accomplishments in improving conditions for pedestrians. The speakers represented an alphabet soup of major metropolitan transportation agencies in California: SANDAG, the San Diego Association of Governments; SACOG, the Sacramento Area Council of Governments; SCAG, […]

California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update

By Melanie Curry | May 9, 2014 | No Comments

Here is Streetsblog’s weekly highlight of California legislation related to sustainable transportation. Clean vehicles: S.B. 1204, Ricardo Lara (D-Huntington Park/Long Beach) and Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills), which passed the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality on a 6-1 vote, was read for the first time in the Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill creates the California Clean […]

CA High-Speed Rail Authority Certifies EIR for Fresno-to-Bakersfield Segment

By Melanie Curry | May 7, 2014 | No Comments

The California High Speed Rail Authority (CAHSRA) Board voted unanimously today to certify the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the project segment between Fresno and Bakersfield in the Central Valley. This section of CAHSR can now move to the “final design” stage that precedes construction. This is the second segment of the project to have […]

A Rising Tide for Walking and Biking in California Cities

By Damien Newton | May 5, 2014 | No Comments

This week, the League for American Bicyclists released its nationwide “benchmarking” report on the state of active transportation throughout the country. The report contained good news for those working to make California a more safe and attractive place to bicycle. California rose ten spots to #9 in the state to state comparisons, scoring nearly 54 […]

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