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California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update

By Melanie Curry | Apr 4, 2014 | No Comments

For social media coverage of California’s statewide transportation issues, follow Melanie @currymel on Twitter or like the Streetsblog California Facebook page. Here’s Streetsblog’s weekly highlight of legislation and events related to sustainable transportation at the California capitol. News on the implementation of S.B. 743, which removes Automobile Level of Service (LOS) from consideration as an environmental […]

Advocates Push for Bike/Ped Funding From CA’s Cap-and-Trade Funds

By Melanie Curry | Apr 2, 2014 | 2 Comments

A coalition of bike and pedestrian advocates are inviting organizations to sign on to a letter [PDF] asking the state legislature to recommend allocating $50 million of the state’s cap-and-trade revenue towards the Active Transportation Program. Currently, none of the $850 million in cap-and-trade funds are allocated specifically for walking and bicycling in this year’s budget. Caltrans recently released its first […]

Senate Committee Grills CA High-Speed Rail Authority on Its Funding Plan

By Melanie Curry | Apr 1, 2014 | 9 Comments

Doubts about the High Speed Rail Authority’s ability to fund its estimated $68 billion program dominated last week’s Senate Transportation and Housing Committee hearing (see the background report in this PDF). Committee Chair Senator Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord) said he was “somewhat skeptical” about the Authority’s 2014 Draft Business Plan and questioned CAHSRA CEO Jeff Morales on […]

Transportation Priorities Jostle for CA’s Cap-and-Trade Revenue

By Melanie Curry | Mar 21, 2014 | 18 Comments

A series of hearings in Sacramento have been revisiting California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, Assembly Bill (A.B.) 32, which calls for a statewide reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) to 1990 levels by 2020. Two recent hearings have opened discussions of Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed spending plan for the revenue received so far from the state’s […]

Caltrans on the Hot Seat: Assembly Looks at State, Local Planning Tensions

By Melanie Curry | Mar 5, 2014 | 1 Comment

It was the California State Assembly’s turn to review the recent State Smart Transportation Initiative (SSTI) report on Caltrans at a Transportation Committee hearing Monday. The discussion played out along the same lines as the Senate Transportation Committee hearing last month, where Professor Joel Rogers, who led the team that produced the report for the California Transportation […]

CA Legislation Watch: Bills Introduced That Could Impact Livable Streets

By Melanie Curry | Feb 25, 2014 | 14 Comments

The deadline to introduce new bills to the California legislature was Friday, so a slew of new legislation is currently being assigned to committees for hearing. Some of them are so-called “spot” bills, as in “hold a spot in line for me, bub,” containing a bare minimum of information, with the plan being to shape […]

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