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Gov. Brown Denies Cyclists “3,” But Signs Two Bills Boosting Bike Lanes

By Damien Newton | Oct 1, 2012 | No Comments

For the second year in a row, California Governor Jerry Brown issued a last-minute veto of legislation mandating a minimum three-foot distance for motor vehicles to pass cyclists. However, two other bills making it easier for cities to implement bike lanes got the governor’s signature, albeit in watered-down form: AB 2245, which exempts bike lanes from excessive […]

NRDC, Move L.A. Push Governor Brown to Sign Smart Growth Bill

By Damien Newton | Sep 24, 2012 | No Comments

Over the last year, three large regional transportation authorities have passed regional transportation plans that tie together transportation, land use, greenhouse gas emissions and public health mandated by S.B. 375 in 2008. Today, a new study by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Move L.A. praises the Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego regional planning […]

The National Women’s Bicycling Summit: This Is Not a Bike

By Brian Addison | Sep 18, 2012 | No Comments

Leah Missbach Day, co-founder of World Bicycle Relief and keynote speaker at last week’s National Women’s Bicycling Summit, in Long Beach, California, was very succinct with her main point about a bike: “This is not a bike.” The bike is a tool, she intoned; a tool that helps generate economic stability, community cohesiveness, and gender […]

CNU Hones Its Transportation Agenda in Long Beach

By Gary Kavanagh | Sep 12, 2012 | No Comments

Preceding the start of the Pro-Walk/Pro-Bike/Pro-Place conference this week, the Congress for the New Urbanism met at the Renaissance Hotel across from the Long Beach Convention Center to convene their annual CNU Transportation Summit. At the summit, CNU develops its transportation agenda, including new and existing projects. Having caught the new urbanist bug in Florida […]

CA Parking Reform Bill Shot Down by Assembly Committee

By Damien Newton | Jul 5, 2012 | No Comments

With the clock ticking, a state bill that would have banned parking minimums near transit nodes in certain circumstances was pulled from the July 3 California Senate Governance and Finance Committee agenda, shooting down major statewide parking reform efforts for at least another year. A.B. 904, a bill which was praised by parking policy guru and UCLA professor Donald Shoup, appears […]

Battle Lines Drawn in High-Speed Rail Vote

By Damien Newton | Jun 27, 2012 | No Comments

Later this week, the plan to build a High Speed Rail line connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco faces a crucial vote in the California legislature. Governor Jerry Brown asked lawmakers to release $2.7 billion of the $6 billion in bonds passed by California voters in 2008 for High Speed Rail. Combined with $3.3 billion […]

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