Pacific Coast Highway is finally getting safer. Malibu approved a $55 million Caltrans plan to add bike lanes, sidewalks, and traffic-calming improvements along one of California’s most dangerous roads. Huge credit to advocates like SAFE on their tireless work.

A Better Path: Permanent Funding for E-Bikes. The state’s response to a wildly popular e-bike program? Cancel it and put the money towards cars. Take action: go.calbike.org/a/better-pat... (link in bio)

As mentioned last week, CARB just quietly killed the wildly popular e-bike voucher program — and redirected $17 million to electric car rebates instead, according to KQED.

Every two years, the California Bicycle Summit becomes something rare: a room full of people who believe the built environment can change and that we can change it. Session proposals for the 2026 California Bicycle Summit are open until November 16.

It’s the first Monday after daylight saving time, and the sun will set shockingly early tonight — 5:08 PM in San Francisco. You’d think California would have fixed this by now. We voted to end the clock changes years ago, but here we are again: darker streets and laws that haven’t kept up.

ICYMI Urgent action alert for PCH in west LA County, California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the US, and more on CARB's stealth murder of the CA Ebike Incentive Program: bikinginla.com/2025/10/31/u... #bikeLA

Folks who bike/walk in Malibu: let the city know you support safety over "preserving a rural look" [really] on PCH. Malibu commission will vote on Monday Nov 3. la.streetsblog.org/2025/10/31/t...

@calmatters.org has done amazing work this year bringing to light the state of danger on California's streets posed by a licensing system that fails to keep the most dangerous drivers off the road.

From the CalBike Blog: Response to CARB on Ending the E-Bike Incentive Project CARB’s decision to absorb the remaining funding from the E-Bike Incentive Project into Clean Cars 4 All is a telling political moment—one that mistakes “cleaner cars” for genuine progress.

Halloween. Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

From our friends @activesgv Active Streets: Corazón de Valle is on Sunday, November 2, 2025, from 9 AM to 3 PM in the cities of El Monte and South El Monte. This free open streets event is presented by @metrolosangeles, hosted by @sgvcog, and made possible by @myelmonte and @southelmontecitygov.

“It’s so endemic, it’s so pervasive, it’s so ubiquitous, that people don’t recognize just how much it is all around them” I've been talking motonormativity with @grist.org. Also features @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social grist.org/culture/cars...

"What, you don't want a mess of freeway ramps vomited out over Westchester?" If you liked my story you'll *love* the @nickandert.bsky.social deep dive into the disaster that is the LAX-pressway (and thanks for the very kind shoutout!)

It’s 6am on October 27th, 2025, the first day of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge trail closure and free bike shuttle service. I’m here for most of the morning handing out rider surveys for @bikeeastbay.bsky.social. You can take it here too: bit.ly/rsrshuttlesurvey

Cars are not neutral. They are a public-health crisis disguised as infrastructure. As The Atlantic’s Stephanie H. Murray writes, citing Jonathan Haidt, helicopter parenting has become the norm. Not because parents want control, but because the world outside their cars no longer feels safe.

The 2026 California Bike Summit will be in Sacramento on April 23 and 24. News via @calbike.bsky.social cal.streetsblog.org/2025/10/21/c...

We don’t have to accept traffic violence as inevitable. Prevention isn’t just for fires / it’s for streets too.

Early Bird Registration is open for the 2026 California Bicycle Summit. Join advocates, planners, and changemakers in Sacramento, April 23–24, 2026. Save $70 when you register now. Limited tickets available. whova.com/portal/regis...

Yet another example that bicyclists are simultaneously rich, out of touch elitists or poor troublemakers. It just depends on the angle the anti-bike folks want to play.

In a week marked by yet another refinery explosion, South Bay residents were reminded that the region’s dependence on oil doesn’t just pollute the air — it dictates how people move. www.calbike.org/how-south-ba...

The inevitable denouement of car culture: lonely guys talking to an AI woman as they sit in soul-crushing traffic on their way to a desk job behind the wheel of a vehicle they thought would make them cool and could survive the apocalypse.

This was the picture that I wanted to share with @calbike.bsky.social A sharrow on a 40 mph truck route!

The popularity of e-bikes and other small electric devices has surged in recent years, while policies have struggled to keep pace. Cities are left scrambling, riders are caught in the middle, and piecemeal rules don’t address the bigger questions of safety, education, and access.

When the designer and engineer and the whole construction team has never used a bike lane for anything but double-parking…

Most Americans actually want bike lanes — the data just caught up. Thanks to YouGov for the data. 🎵 Music: www.bensound.com License code: ROG2KVRZ59KDY4MV Artist: Benjamin Lazzarus

This is your chance to be part of the California Bicycle Summit. If you have an idea/story/strategy that advances safe, joyful, and connected streets, we want to hear it. Deadline: 11/16 11:59 PM PT Event: 4/23-24/26 Sacramento Submit your session proposal: whova.com/call_for_spe...

Called it.

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On September 9, the U.S. Department of Transportation canceled grants for bike lanes and safer intersections because they were “hostile to motor vehicles.” That language reveals more than bias it exposes a belief that safety itself is a threat to the status quo. www.calbike.org/dots-dead-en...

i recently got a great deal on a barely used folding ebike and i have to say it has revolutionized my train travel. i can get from my front door to the amtrak station in a little less than 5 minutes!!!

CalBike is proud to ride with Cohen Law Partners as a Business Member. With deep expertise in bicycle law and a strong commitment to sustainable transportation, Cohen Law Partners is a valued ally in our movement.

DYK that the nighttime fatality rate on U.S. roadways is three times higher than the daytime rate, and 76% of pedestrian fatalities occur at night? Visit the FHWA for more nighttime visibility for safety resources: www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/e... #PedestrianSafetyMonth

New bikeway on your route? The signs aren’t just decoration they’re the code that tells you where you belong. Knowing the MUTCD basics helps you ride with confidence and keeps drivers accountable. Read more in the CalBike Blog: www.calbike.org/what-to-expe... Sponsored by Bike Legal.

The future of “self-driving” isn’t about hype or investor slides. It’s about what happens when a child on a bike swerves near the curb. If companies want to market autonomy, they should prove publicly that their systems protect vulnerable road users. Our take: www.calbike.org/a-bike-first...

Walk Bike Berkeley has done the hard work of analyzing the plan and raising concerns that it could delay, not deliver, the safety improvements Berkeley voters demanded with Measure FF. Check out the plan berkeleybikeplan.org#/recommendat... Send your comment by tonight to [email protected]

One of the biggest things we want readers to take away from “Life After Cars” is that learning to *see* cars is step one on the path to realizing a better world.

Another great East Bay Kidical Mass this past weekend. Huge turnout!

Book Talk: If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight - A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy | September 30th, 6:30-7:30pm PDT (Online) For Bay Area Transit Month: ​If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy.

This is today! With an updated panel. The awesome @runolgarun.bsky.social also joining. Excited to have this conversation! 🚲🚉🖋️❤️ www.socaltransitmonth.org/virtual_pane...

From “be brave” to “welcome in.” LA is testing concrete protection on 3rd (Main → Spring). Santa Monica built theirs in a day. Tell LADOT to scale it—take the 3rd Street survey by Oct 31. form.typeform.com/to/mKQsn7LQ

I'm doing a book talk tonight with @carterlavin.bsky.social, @transbaycoalition.bsky.social Free and open to all. 6pm Pacific.

Seems pretty simple

Quick-Build was shelved. Bike Highways gutted. Active transportation took heavy hits this year in Sacramento, while highway projects rolled on. www.calbike.org/bike-friendl...

We took the K line to Fairview Heights and used the new Rail to Rail south LA bike path to get to #CicLAvia.

On Tuesday, Sept 30, our crew of “street nurses” will cover DTLA’s sidewalk ouchies with giant bandages 🩹 📢 Want to join the Brigade? Sign up here: bit.ly/helpheal-la Led by: FASTLinkDTLA, Los Angeles Walks, Public Matters #fixitforgood #LAouchies #WeekWithoutDriving

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked footage of radical anti-car cyclists at a training camp.

CalBike is pleased to see SB 71 clear the Assembly. At its core, this bill asserts that California should make it easier to build active and public transportation. By extending CEQA exemptions through 2040, SB 71 acknowledges something advocates have known for years: delay costs lives.

Grateful to the Arroyo Vista Elementary Bike Bus for welcoming CalBike into the ride — and for my very cool new spoke card.