Stand up for inclusive bike walk funding

Your California Bicycle Coalition has two hugely important bills that will transform how California funds bikeway projects. Here's what these laws would do:

Implement a Complete Streets policy for state funding: We are thankful to Senator Jim Beall for including sensible complete streets provisions in SBX 1-1 that will make the wisest use of road maintenance funding by including “new bicycle and pedestrian safety, access, and mobility improvements” in every project funded by the state. It calls for sidewalks and protected bike lanes or bike paths in transit-dense areas on most roads with a speed limit over 25 miles ...

Your California Bicycle Coalition has two hugely important bills that will transform how California funds bikeway projects. Here's what these laws would do:

Implement a Complete Streets policy for state funding: We are thankful to Senator Jim Beall for including sensible complete streets provisions in SBX 1-1 that will make the wisest use of road maintenance funding by including “new bicycle and pedestrian safety, access, and mobility improvements” in every project funded by the state. It calls for sidewalks and protected bike lanes or bike paths in transit-dense areas on most roads with a speed limit over 25 miles per hour.
Increase dedicated funding for biking and walking: Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia, Autumn Burke, and David Chiu's ABX 1-23, doubles the size of the Active Transportation Program (ATP) with a $125 million increase. The ATP is the sole source of state funding dedicated to biking walking and Safe Routes to School projects. Last year, the ATP was underfunded by nearly $800 million for shovel-ready walking, bicycling and safe school access projects. ABX 1-23 also includes a bike network grants program that will support local agencies to build whole networks that connect every destination in communities like yours with an unbroken web of bike paths, protected bike lanes, and quiet bicycle boulevards.

Now we need your help. Contact your state Senator and Assemblymember now to let them know that you support implementing strong "complete streets" policies to ensure that state funding is being spent to build protected bike lanes, increasing the Active Transportation Program, and creating a state program to give cities large grants to build out entire bike networks.

Supported by: the California Bicycle Coalition, Safe Routes to School National Partnership, California Walks, TransForm.

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Expanding overbuilt freeways and perpetuating California's cars-and-trucks-first culture isn’t a long term solution for 21st century travel demands. Increasing space for cars makes traffic worse, worsens air pollution, and continues endangering the health and safety of our children–especially in low-income historically redlined communities of color that have been entrapped by freeways. We need to push our elected officials to develop a budget that matches their climate change rhetoric. Email your Assemblymember and Senator now with this easy form:

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Thank you for supporting people like me who rely on biking, walking, and public transportation. Expanding overbuilt freeways and perpetuating California's cars-first culture isn’t a long term solution for 21st century travel demands. Repaving and expanding our current road system and highway capacity doesn’t fix traffic congestion, worsens air pollution, and will continue endangering the lives of our children, especially in low-income communities of color that lack mobility options and have been hemmed in by freeways. Please support your constituents by ensuring any California transportation budget makes smart investments in the health, safety, and economy of California communities. Stand with us and please fight for any new money to meet these requirements:

1. Mandate Complete Streets Improvements for People Walking & Biking during Maintenance & Operations Projects on Off-Freeway Highways & Local Roads. 
 
2. Leverage Transportation Investments to Create Economic Opportunity for Vulnerable Californians.

3. Reject the "Low Carbon Roads" Program Concept & Invest in the Active Transportation Program Instead

4. Increase Investment in Transit Operations and Discounted Transit Passes

5. Increase Dedicated Investment in Active Transportation

6. Mitigate & Avoid Health, Safety, & Environmental Impacts of Trade Corridor Investments

We have a tremendous opportunity to address climate change by shifting our transportation investments toward clean, affordable, healthy modes of travel, while also addressing safety and mobility needs of all Californians. It’s vital the budget focus on meeting the serious transportation challenges facing California’s families and communities in the here and now–such as investing in complete streets and providing multi-modal choices that will ensure all communities can thrive.

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