CA State Budget

More than half of the state's "Climate Commitment" of 2022 has been funded, but it has shrunk and spread out over time, and its funding source includes money that was already going to the climate fight.

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Funding for Cycle 7 of the Active Transportation Program is less than $200 million, and already there have been requests for fifteen times the amount of available funding

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A quick review of what the legislature wants in the transportation budget

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It would have zeroed out the entirety of Cycle 7 - but the legislature has rejected the cuts.

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The Newsom administration wants to cut the ATP because Caltrans is tired of having its state highway funding tapped.

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Active Transportation Program is gutted - unnecessarily

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Jared Sanchez is the policy director of Calbike. In California, our transportation sector contributes more than any other sector to climate pollution. The Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI) lays out a limited set of plans and goals for reducing emissions from transportation. However, it’s not enough. And climate change isn’t a problem we […]

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The state is committed to climate investments, but one of its best climate programs - the ATP - is apparently dispensable

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In the end, when Governor Newsom signed the budget, the claw-back of ATP funds was gone.

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