Recent Streetsblog SF posts about California

Save the Date: CalBike Summit Coming in October

By Melanie Curry | Jun 16, 2015 | No Comments

The California Bicycle Coalition’s 2015 Bike Summit will take place in San Diego in late October, providign an opportunity for bike advocates from across the state to gather and discuss issues of this year’s theme: equity. Executive Director Dave Snyder pointed out that equity is becoming a focus in California, especially in the legislature, where […]

CA Legislative Update: Budget, Cap-and-Trade, LOS, Gas Tax

By Melanie Curry | Jun 12, 2015 | No Comments

This week the California legislature was mostly focused on the budget, since the Assembly and the Senate must by law present a budget bill to the governor by midnight on Monday, June 15. The joint Budget Conference Committee succeeded in producing an agreement [PDF] well before the deadline; their budget bill, A.B. 93, should be […]

California Legislative Update

By Melanie Curry | Jun 5, 2015 | No Comments

This week Sacramento saw long hearings in the Senate and Assembly, as both houses pushed to meet their deadline to pass bills. Any bill that doesn’t pass its house of origin by the end of this week is dead–for this year at least. Herein, our highly selective look at this week’s activities in the California […]

Happy Bike to Work Day, California

By Melanie Curry | May 14, 2015 | No Comments

Yes, yes, every day is bike to work day, but today is the day we get to celebrate it. Here’s a photo of one group of happy participants in Berkeley, California, where the mayors of Copenhagen, Denmark and Jena, Germany joined Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates for a “mayorpalooza” bike ride through town. We’re putting together […]

California Legislative Update: Parking Requirements, Cap-and-Trade Funds

By Melanie Curry | May 8, 2015 | No Comments

This week we’re tracking some of the bills that got left out of last week’s too-long legislative update. These bills relate to transportation funding, climate change, and urban planning. PLANNING Eliminating Parking Minimums: A.B. 744 from Ed Chau (D-Monterey Park) would require a city or county to eliminate minimum parking requirements under certain circumstances, upon […]

Governor Orders Ambitious GHG Goals, But No Plan on How to Meet Them

By Melanie Curry | May 1, 2015 | No Comments

California Governor Jerry Brown issued an executive order calling for an ambitious response to climate change, and the media have been all over it. The order establishes a new near-term greenhouse gas emission reduction goal– 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 — but it doesn’t outline specific plans for how to get there. It requires […]

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