CalBike focuses most of our efforts on advocacy within California, but we’ll be supporting our national partners in helping to get this critical bill through Congress. We’ll let you know about opportunities to reach out to representatives and senators to support a federal rebate for e-bike purchases.Assembly Bill 825 (Bryan) comes up for a vote in the Assembly Committee on Transportation on Monday, March 20, and it needs your support. The bill will legalize bike riding on sidewalks on streets and cheap cycling jerseys highways that don’t include a Class I, Class II, or Class IV bikeway, giving people on bikes a safe, legal option to ride.
AB 825 includes provisions for sidewalk safety. It sets a bicycle speed limit of 10 mph on the sidewalk and requires people on bikes to yield to pedestrians.
Better bikeways are our first choice
Is sidewalk riding ideal? No. In CalBike’s perfect world, we’d have safe,
