Planning
Still on the docket from last session are a couple of important planning bills from Assemblymember Friedman: A.B. 6 and A.B. 7 would both require state transportation funding programs to incorporate climate principles and goals into their projects and demonstrate how projects would help achieve the state’s greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
Assemblymember Friedman also has a bill, A.B. 2290, that would prohibit the use of ATP funding for Class III bikeways - which are basically useless, signed routes, sometimes with sharrows - unless the roads are slow-speed routes. It would require road projects to include bike and pedestrian facilities that have been adopted in a local active transportation or bicycle plan, regardless of whether there's a parallel facility for bike riders or not (currently they can use that as an excuse not to build what's in their plans).