Posted By Sam Ollinger on October 11, 2009

Below are some bills that will affect bicyclists in California.

Seatless Bicycles (SB 527): This bill would allow bicycles designed to operate without a seat to be legally ridden on streets. The bill is currently awaiting Governor Schwarzenegger’s signature. The full text and status of the bill is available at Senator Kehoe’s website.

Complete Streets in California – From the California Bicycle Coalition, efforts made since the signing of the Complete Streets Act in 2008:

As of 2011, the law will require cities and counties, when updating local transportation plans, to ensure that those plans account for the needs of all roadway users.

At the same time, the California Department of Transportation unveiled a revised version of Deputy Directive 64, an internal policy document that now explicitly embraces Complete Streets as the policy covering all phases of state highway projects, from planning to construction to maintenance and repair.

As the result, California became the second—and by far the largest—state to implement Complete Streets policies covering every public street, road and highway.

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