Divest from the Freeway
AB 7, also by Assemblymember Friedman, ends funding for freeway projects that expand capacity for single-occupancy vehicles. It’s a policy shift we need to mitigate climate change and the toxic pollutants and displacement that endanger communities near freeways.
Safety Stop Redux
After the Bicycle Safety Stop failed to become law twice, Assemblymember road bike jerseys Tasha Boerner Horvath introduced AB 73, which proposes pilot programs to test the effects of allowing people on bikes to treat stop signs as yields. While the many states that have already adopted similar laws could be considered (successful) tests, we support anything that moves California out of the dark ages on the safety stop.
Read more about these three bills in Streetsblog.
Vehicle Weight Fee
Assemblymember Chris Ward has introduced AB 251, a short sleeve cycling jerseys measure to study the short sleeve cycling jerseys relationship between vehicle weight and rates of injury to pedestrians, bike riders, and other vulnerable road users.