Melanie Curry

Oakland's Telegraph Avenue has seen an increase in people biking and walking as well as a decrease in speed, collisions, and delay along this heavily traveled corridor since reconfiguring the street with a road diet and parking-protected bike lanes. And retail establishments are reporting higher income.

California as a state ranks at number 17 for pedestrian risk, with 6,616 pedestrian deaths between 2005 and 2014. The California regions with the highest pedestrian fatality rates are Bakersfield, Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Stockton-Lodi, Modesto, and Fresno.

In the first step of the budget process for 2017-2018, Governor Brown proposed a budget that shows fiscal restraint--and includes money for the Active Transportation Program.

The statewide advocacy organization focuses on policy at the state level, and training and capacity building at the local level. It's a lot of work.

Now, before we get into the nominations in this category, we have to say this: all the groups are great! People who dedicate their lives to making our cities safer, more livable, more equitable, and more sustainable deserve all the praise they can get. These are people who are smart and dedicated and give more than their pound of flesh. They are all underpaid and over worked...wait, underpaid? Often they work for nothing.

Good bike infrastructure can be simpler and less expensive to build than planners realize.

Uber is in such a hurry to dump the most expensive part of its operations—the drivers who make a paltry living, if that much—that it rushed into testing self-driving cars in San Francisco without getting permission.

Vote for the Bay Area's Best Street Treatment Quick Fix. Which of these (or other nominations) should get a Streetsie?

Wasting no time, lawmakers opened the first day of the California legislative session by introducing a slew of bills and resolutions to get things started.

Just before the California Transportation Commission (CTC) was set to approve staff recommendations on Active Transportation Program funding, the largest project on the list was moved down and is no longer recommended for funding. CTC staff recommended that CV Link receive $24.3 million, or almost a fifth of the total funding available, for a fifty-mile multi-use path connecting cities in the Coachella Valley. However, a mistake was discovered in its application, which led to its score being revisited. The new score put it further down the list, so that it will not be recommended for funding at tomorrow's CTC meeting in Riverside.