Press releases and official announcements from Santa Monica.
“If they were actively trying to sabotage the program, what would they do differently than this?” – anonymous e-bike voucher hopeful in an email to Streetsblog. Last night, the California E-Bike Incentive Project was scheduled to open their portal for applicants to…
The Air Resources Board’s long–delayed and controversial e-bike voucher program will be opening its application portal for a second time at 6:00 p.m. on April 29th. This time instead of a first-come, first-serve approach that left out tens of thousands of hopeful applicants, the…
This story also appears at Streetsblog California. Photo: Senator Wiener and BART General Manager Robert Powers confer on BART. Photo: Melanie Curry/Streetsblog Cutting red tape for large transit projects may be a rare bipartisan issue. The California Senate Transportation Committee…
This story also appears at Streetsblog California. Last week, Sacramento became the first city in the country to use bus-mounted cameras to ticket scofflaw drivers who drive or park in bike lanes. The program is a partnership between the city…
While state legislators, city councils, and activists all look for ways to make California’s streets safer, a groundbreaking report by CalMatters illustrates the important role that our state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) plays in keeping our roads unsafe. In “License…
This article via Calbike. CalBike has 14 bills on its legislative watchlist this year, and almost half of them (six) are e-bike regulations. As we have documented repeatedly over the past couple of years, the swift rise in the popularity of e-bikes has…
This article first appeared at Streetsblog California Yesterday, the California State Senate Judiciary Committee rejected S.B. 222, the Affordable Insurance and Climate Recovery Act. The legislation needed seven votes to pass the committee, but received only five. A full tally of…
This article also appears at Streetsblog California. Last week, Clean RIDES Network, a coalition of advocacy groups aimed at reforming state departments of transportation, released Reducing Costs, Commutes, and Climate Pollution: State Solutions for Better Transportation, a new blueprint for helping states…
Joshua Baum is an urban economist and the Principal of Hilgard Analytics, a mission-driven real estate and economic development research firm founded in 2020. This op/ed also appears at Streetsblog California. California stands at a crossroads when it comes to public…
The following article also appears at Streetsblog by Roger Rudick. Photo : My “car.” Or one of them anyway. Photo from Wikimedia Commons by Pi.1415926535 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Car prices, say analysts, are poised to shoot up by thousands of dollars thanks to…
This story also appears at Streetsblog California. Flanked by Bay Area elected officials and advocates from the Yes in My BackYard (YIMBY) movement, Senator Scott Wiener (D-SF) held a press event at the Daly City BART Station Friday morning to…
After a succesful pilot program in 2023, Santa Monica began working on a permanent program for cracking down on illegal car parking in bus lanes. The Big Blue Bus has been telling advocates the program will “hopefully” launch next month.…
Last month, the State of California released the Draft State Highway System Management Plan (SHSMP), a document required by the legislature every two years. SHSMP provides a ten-year prediction of statewide transportation funding needs. Despite the word “highway” appearing in…
It is very much still a construction site, but there’s a lot of progress visible on Santa Monica’s new first/last mile connections to the Metro E Line 26th Street/Bergamot Station. Bergamot Station has typically seen about a thousand daily boardings, which…
We’ll have more details on Santa Monica specific grants later today or tomorrow. From San Diego to Del Norte County, communities throughout California received good news on Friday when the Governor’s office announced 288 grants totaling nearly $300 million designed…
