Oil Industry Blows Smoke at CA’s Climate Change Policies
The major lobby group for the California oil industry has launched a new, and particularly dimwitted, effort to denigrate California's climate change policies. Californians for Affordable and Reliable Energy, or CARE, one of the Western States Petroleum Association's front groups (as reported in Streetsblog several years ago), started a new website that purports to show how the state is wasting its money on efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
May 18, 2016
More Views of Bike to Work Day
Thursday was Bike to Work Day in many parts of California, including the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas. That meant: lots of bikes on the road—maybe more than usual, maybe not—but also lots of smiles, bike-bell-ringing, and high fives all around for everyone who chooses to use this most environmentally friendly way to get to work and everywhere else. And not just one day a year.
May 16, 2016
Governor’s Budget Revision: Nothing New for Transportation
Governor Brown issued his May revision of the state budget proposal, and in terms of transportation, it's pretty much the same story we told in January. That is, he proposes a variety of new revenues, including a “road improvement charge” and higher gas taxes, to fix California's transportation infrastructure.
May 13, 2016
Bike Month in the Rest of the Bay Area: This Party is No Joke
Streetsblog California has been looking around the state to see how local communities are celebrating Bike Month. Damien Newton did a podcast about Fresno's activities, and so far we previewed Sacramento's May Is Bike Month celebration as well as Alameda and Contra Costa counties, on the east side of the San Francisco Bay.
May 10, 2016
Bike Month in the East Bay: Where Bike to Work Day Began?
It's generally acknowledged that Bike to Work Day was started by the League of American Bicyclists—then called the League of American Wheelmen—in 1956. Rumor has it (can anyone confirm this?) that in California the first Bike to Work Day event took place in San Diego circa 1993.
May 9, 2016
Oakland’s New Parking Protected Bike Lanes Are Challenging to Some
With a road diet, new parking configuration, and protected bike lanes on Telegraph Avenue, Oakland is saying to its car drivers: slow down, take it easy. And to its bike riders: you're welcome here and safe.
May 4, 2016
#Bikemonth: Celebrating the Bike Ride in California: Sacramento Area
It's Bike Month, hurray! Time to get out there and join your fellow bike riders to celebrate this awesome travel device that also generates smiles, increases health, improves air quality, and fixes lots of other problems in cities.
May 3, 2016
Beall Proposal Tries To End California Transportation Funding Stalemate
Last year, Governor Brown called a “Special Session” to prod the California legislature to find solutions to what seemed an intractable problem: how to fund transportation needs in the state. Some bills were introduced, some hearings were held, but the biggest result of all the ballyhoo is a confirmation that the problem is, indeed, intractable.
April 29, 2016
Proposed East Bay Bike-Share Sites Announced
Note: This story has been corrected since it was originally posted. Thank you to sharp-eyed readers.
April 25, 2016