News and Updates
2022 Year in Review and A Look to 2023!
2022 Year in Review Happy New Year! We hope 2023 will be a year of good health and active living for all of you. We wanted to take the time to recap our accomplishments in 2022, and give a preview of the work we have planned for the year ahead. We had a lighter legislative…
Results of Cycle 6 of the Active Transportation Program
Cycle 6 of California’s Active Transportation Program (ATP), staff recommendations for which were announced on October 20, was an exceptional one. An infusion of funds from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), brought the baseline of funds from the $444 million per cycle that existed…
ATP Cycle 6 Closed and Augmentation
The deadline for ATP Cycle 6 passed on June 15. 434 applications were received, 20 fewer than in Cycle 5. That drop is much smaller than the decrease of 100 from Cycle 4 to Cycle 5, however, so we are cautiously optimistic that the size of the applicant pool is beginning to stabilize. According to…
All Things ATP: Cycle 6 of the Active Transportation Program is Open!
Applications and Guidelines for Cycle 6 of the Active Transportation Program were approved at the March meeting of the California Transportation Commission. Guidelines and scoring rubrics are available at the CTC’s ATP Website and the application form and instructions are available at the CalTrans ATP Website. As with Cycle 5, there is now only one…
ATP Augmentation and Cycle 6 Funding
Thanks to a boost in funding from the federal infrastructure bill, the fund estimate for ATP Cycle 6 has increased to $650 million, which will hopefully allow more worthy projects to be funded this cycle. Negotiations continue on the Governor’s transportation package announced earlier this year, which includes a one-time augmentation to the ATP of $500 million. We continue…
Watch Our Webinar to Learn About the Latest on Cycle 6
We will be hosting a webinar on April 20th at 2 pm Pacific outlining changes to the applications and guidelines since Cycle 5. Register here. AICP certified planners can receive one CM credit for attending the webinar from the California APA Chapter, Northern Section. One change to the guidelines we do want to highlight is that…
ATP Cycle 6 Series: Changes in the ATP Guidelines – Applications and Scoring in Cycle 6
The Safe Routes Partnership is pleased to announce the third and final in the ATP Cycle 6 series of webinars focused on California’s Active Transportation Program: Changes in the ATP Guidelines, Applications and Scoring in Cycle 6. The webinar will be held on April 20 at 2pm PST. While the first two webinars focused on…
ATP Cycle 6 Webinar # 2: Ensuring the Sustainability of your Non-Infrastructure Program
Please join us for the second in our 2021-2022 ATP Webinar Series. The Safe Routes Partnership began hosting webinars for applicants to the Active Transportation Program in Cycle 5, and we are excited to provide another round of webinars in anticipation of Cycle 6. The second in our webinar series will be held March 1…
ATP Cycle 5 Boosted by $500 million
Last month, we wrote about a letter we and our allies had sent requesting a $1 billion augmentation from the General Fund surplus. Since then, Governor Newsom proposed in his May budget revision, and the State Legislature has approved, a $500 million augmentation. While this is not as much as we hoped, it is a…
ATP Webinar Series Starts Up Again for Cycle 6!
Please join us for the first in our 2021-2022 ATP Webinar Series! The Safe Routes Partnership began hosting webinars for applicants to the Active Transportation Program in Cycle 5, and we are excited to begin the next round of webinars roughly a year from the anticipated application deadline for Cycle 6. The first…
Apply for our ATP Technical Assistance in Cycle 6!
If you are working to make walking and biking to schools, parks and other key destinations safer in your community, we can help! The Safe Routes Partnership can assist your efforts to make your community a place where all residents can easily be active and healthy. We are offering long-term, free technical assistance to under-resourced…
Celebrating Success in Muscoy
Speaking of the ATP, we wrote in March of our happiness that Muscoy, one of the communities to which we provided technical assistance, was one of the communities slated to receive funding in Cycle 5 for its community sidewalks project. Since then, the San Bernardino Sun wrote about the community’s joy at finally securing one…
More Funding is Needed for the Active Transportation Program
After the most competitive cycle yet of the Active Transportation Program, we and our partners in mobility and environmental justice advocacy are pushing for a $1 Billion augmentation to Cycle 5 from the State General Fund, which is currently benefiting from an unprecedented one-time surplus. This augmentation would be sufficient to fully fund all applications…
Active Transportation Program Cycle 5 Funding Recommendations Released
Staff recommendations for Cycle 5 of the Active Transportation Program were released earlier this month. As we expected, the program became even more competitive than it was in Cycle 4: the cut-off score in the Statewide Component was 92 out of 100, a rise from Cycle 4’s cutoff score of 89. There was only enough…
Complete Streets Augmentation Projects Announced
CalTrans has released its last set of recommendations for corridors in the State Highway Network that will benefit from the $100 million reserved in the 2020 State Highway Operation and Protection Program (SHOPP) Cycle for Complete Streets augmentations. The second list of recommendations is available here; it follows an earlier list of recommendations from December…
Hopes for 2021 in California
As we look towards 2021, we are hopeful that the arrival of a vaccine will enable our state government to return to a full legislative agenda after this year’s sudden shift to emergency relief. Enormous challenges lay ahead, notably saving our threatened transit systems. We are heartened that sustainable transportation champion Laura Friedman (AD-43) will…
Funding Opportunity: Caltrans Sustainable Transportation Planning Grants
The Caltrans Sustainable Transportation Planning Grant program applications are now open! This grant program includes (1) Sustainable Communities grants to encourage local and regional planning that furthers state goals and (2) Strategic Partnerships Grants to identify and address statewide, interregional, or regional transportation deficiencies on the state highway system in partnership with Caltrans. Grant applications…
Statewide News: SB 1 Projects Approved
Earlier this month, the California Transportation Commission (CTC) approved allocations for a bevy of projects programmed in four SB 1-supported programs. As Streetsblog describes, many of those projects, which were brought to the Commissioners by CTC staff, are emblematic of discredited highway expansion planning. Even in some cases in which the projects provide transit options,…
Two Ballot Measures for Your Consideration
We urge everyone to vote! There are two ballot measures up for consideration in California this year that we wanted to call your attention to. We urge you to vote yes on: Proposition 16: This measure would restore affirmative action in California by repealing Proposition 209, the 1996 measure that banned affirmative action. The Safe Routes Partnership is committed to…
Newsom Focuses on Electric Vehicles to Alleviate Climate Change
Last month, Governor Newsom signed Executive Order N-79-20, which calls for the end of all sales of new fossil fuel vehicles by 2035. While we celebrate any move away from gas-powered vehicles, we share the belief of our partner CalBike that this executive order focuses far too much on what cars use for their power source, rather…