{"id":1148,"date":"2008-08-09T19:01:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2008-08-09T19:01:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T00:01:05","slug":"complete-streets-act-queued-for-california-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Complete Streets Act queued for California Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leginfo.ca.gov\/cgi-bin\/postquery?bill_number=ab_1358&#038;sess=CUR&#038;house=B&#038;author=leno\">Complete Streets Act<\/a>, sponsored by Assemblymember Mark Leno, is queued up for debate in the California Senate.  The bill requires local governments to take into account users other than cars when updating general plans. Pedestrians, bicyclists, children, people with disabilities, seniors, all need to be considered.  In a &#8220;complete streets&#8221; world, cars have a vote, not a veto on how streets are used.<br \/>\nMore background on the bill from the <a href=\"http:\/\/transbayblog.com\/2008\/07\/31\/complete-streets-act-to-hit-the-state-senate-floor\/\">TransBay Blog<\/a>. The bill is queued for the Senate floor, but is being held while the Gov. plays chicken with the budget.  If you live in CA, call your state Senator in support of the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Complete Streets Act, sponsored by Assemblymember Mark Leno, is queued up for debate in the California Senate. The bill requires local governments to take into account users other than cars when updating general plans. Pedestrians, bicyclists, children, people with disabilities, seniors, all need to be considered. In a &#8220;complete streets&#8221; world, cars have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1148\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Complete Streets Act queued for California Senate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-iw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}