California

In Sacramento, bills are beginning to move more quickly through the committee process as this week's policy committee deadline approaches. Below are highlights on some of the bills pertaining to sustainable streets issues.

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.

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 available later today, ready to be voted on in both houses on Monday.

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.

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.

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.

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 California Assembly Natural Resources Committee voted Tuesday to move legislation that will delay the state's shift away from car-centric planning.

Here is our regular roundup of California legislation of interest to livable streets advocates. As always, let us know if we missed anything in the comments.