Este episodio destaca la experiencia de los miembros de la comunidad y los estudiantes que caminan hacia y desde Escuela Secundaria Stevenson, los desafíos con las jurisdicciones locales y la necesidad de colaboración para impulsar las soluciones propuestas. Los participantes compartieron la necesidad de mejoras en la infraestructura, incluida la instalación de cruces peatonales de alta visibilidad para aumentar la visibilidad de los peatones, medidas para calmar el tráfico dirigidas a los conductores que aceleran y la conciencia general de seguridad que involucra a los residentes, la comunidad escolar y las agencias de la ciudad para avanzar en los planes de seguridad.

Los Caminos de la Vía: Stevenson Middle School, Boyle Heights

Este episodio destaca la experiencia de los miembros de la comunidad que enfrentan la basura en sus calles, los desafíos que enfrentan con su distrito local y la financiación de proyectos, y los peligros del exceso de velocidad y las agresiones en su vecindario. Los participantes compartieron que se necesita más participación comunitaria. Si más miembros de la comunidad participaran en reuniones y con esfuerzos de promoción, Pico-Union tendría más éxito en obtener más fondos para aprobar proyectos que abordarán velocidades peligrosas y aumentarán la seguridad en sus vecindarios.

Los Caminos de la Via: Pico - Union, Los Angeles

Este episodio destaca la experiencia de los miembros de la comunidad que caminan y andan en bicicleta en Lamont en la SR-184. Los participantes compartieron que necesitan una mejor infraestructura, como aceras y cruces peatonales, para garantizar la seguridad de los estudiantes que caminan hacia y desde la escuela secundaria Mountain View. Los participantes creen que la SR-184 sería más segura para los estudiantes y residentes con estas mejoras de infraestructura.

Los Caminos de la Via: Lamont, Kern County

Este episodio destaca la experiencia de miembros de la comunidad y estudiantes que caminan y andan en bicicleta a la escuela en Fresno. Los participantes compartieron que necesitan mejor infraestructura, como banquetas, cruces peatonales y carriles para bicicletas, para garantizar la seguridad de los estudiantes que caminan hacia y desde la escuela secundaria Yosemite y la escuela primaria Mayfair. Los participantes creen que estas rutas serían más seguras para los estudiantes y residentes con estas mejoras de infraestructura.

Los Caminos de la Via: Fresno

Este episodio destaca la experiencia de los miembros de la comunidad y los estudiantes que caminan y van en bicicleta a la escuela en Tulare. Los participantes compartieron que necesitan infraestructura, como aceras completas, cruces peatonales de alta visibilidad y medidas para calmar el tráfico, para garantizar la seguridad de los estudiantes que caminan y andan en bicicleta hacia y desde la Escuela Primaria Roosevelt y la Escuela Intermedia Alice Mulcahy.

Los Caminos de la Via: Tulare, Tulare County

Este episodio presenta las historias de miembros de la comunidad de Orange Cove, California, una ciudad en el Condado de Fresno. Los participantes incluyen representantes de organizaciones locales como Cultiva La Salud, el Boys and Girls Club-Unidad Orange Cove, y Cal Fresh Healthy Living. Los miembros de la comunidad de Orange Cove expresaron sus deseos de contar con mejoras de infraestructura y programas para mejorar la experiencia de las personas que caminan y andan en bicicleta en Orange Cove.

Los Caminos de la Via: Orange Cove, Fresno County

El segmento de hoy presenta las historias de miembros de la comunidad de Knights Landing, California, un pueblo en el condado de Yolo, a 26 millas al norte de Sacramento. Los miembros de la comunidad de Knights Landing expresaron supreocupación por la seguridad de peatones y ciclistas que viajan a lo largo de la calle Locust, también conocida como Ruta Estatal 113, particularmente la seguridad de los estudiantes y sus familias que caminan o rodean hacia y desde la escuela y aquellos que accederán el futuro parque comunitario. Los participantes piden una colaboración entre agencias del condado, y estatales, escuelas y residentes para hacer que las rutas hacia las escuelas, parques y calles en sus vecindarios sean más seguras para todos.

Los Caminos de la Via: Knights Landing, Yolo County

In this very first episode of Walking Stories, we hear a story from California Walks Co-ED Kevin Shin about an experience he had while living and working in Washington, DC.

Hear about a driver who got quite the comeuppance and stick around for our experiences with law enforcement, school drop-off, and impatient drivers. 

🔧 Topics Covered:
 – Introduction to California Walks (0:50)
 – First story in Washington, DC (2:00) 
 – Active transportation and law enforcement (8:40)  
 – Motorists need education about interacting with pedestrians (10:40)
 – Windshield bias and everyone is a pedestrian (12:15)
 – AB 2147 and the decriminalization of jaywalking (13:45)
 – Impatience leads to poor choices (16:00)
 – The case for slow and steady driving (21:00)
 – Driving and geographic identities (22:00)
 – Modeling behaviors to the next generation (23:00)

Watch Adam Conover talk about jaywalking on Adam Ruins Everything at https://youtu.be/vxopfjXkArM?si=Gnc9xFmcd7xyF1Ry. 

 🎙️ Hosts: California Walks Co-EDs, Miha Babalai and Kevin Shin

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Youtube: https://youtu.be/-MR0J3EPAAM

Learn more about California Walks and make sure you donate to support our work!
https://www.calwalks.org/donate

Don’t forget to buy your very own California Walks t-shirt!
https://www.calwalks.org/merchstore

💬 Drop your thoughts below: Have you ever had a challenging encounter with law enforcement as a pedestrian?

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Walking Stories Podcast - Episode 001

In our latest episode of Walking Stories, we hear BikeSD Executive Director, Anar Salayev, about daylighting. Passed in 2023, AB 413 added a requirement for daylighting to the California Vehicle Code and gave municipalities until Jan 1, 2025 to develop plans for how they would handle enforcement of the new law. However, many municipalities have not only not taken necessary steps to create awareness throughout their communities and some have even sought to undermine the intention of the law by shortening the required daylighting distances without provided documented evidence. Unfortunately, the way the law is written places the onus on drivers to know the law, which we suspect many are blissfully unaware of it. 

Listen as Miha, Kevin, and Anar discuss the law and explain its merits and review how you too can take steps to encourage your local elected officials to step up their enforcement of this potentially lifesaving law.

🔧 Topics Covered:
 – Introduction to Anar Salayev and BikeSD (0:59)
 – What is the daylighting law (2:27) 
 – Anar’s story (3:08)  
 – Challenges of getting the word out about daylighting (11:08)
 – What’s 20 feet? (13:37)
 – America makes it very easy to get and keep a driver’s license (15:50)
 – New laws and how to get the word out (16:45)
 – The timing of when daylighting went into effect was impacted by a lot of things (18:50)
 – Daylighting additional law details (30:17)
 – The problem with how AB413 was written and how to overcome it (31:15)

Read more about daylighting and get ideas for how to encourage your elected officials to enforce daylighting:  https://calwalks.org/blog/2025/5/27/calbike-and-california-walks-call-on-cities-to-implement-daylighting-to-save-lives 

Learn more about BikeSD at https://www.bikesd.org/

 🎙️ Hosts: California Walks Co-EDs, Miha Babalai and Kevin Shin

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Learn more about California Walks and make sure you donate to support our work!
https://www.calwalks.org/donate

Don’t forget to buy your very own California Walks t-shirt!
https://www.calwalks.org/merchstore

💬 Drop your thoughts below: Have you ever had a challenging encounter with law enforcement as a pedestrian?

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Walking Stories Podcast - Episode 002

With many students headed back to school later this month, our latest episode of Walking Stories has Miha and Kevin joined by Chloe Dahl, a high school student who is serving as a student leader as part of the Walk Bike Roll CA coalition. She shares with us her experience getting to and from school every day as we take a look at what some schools are and are not doing to help keep their students safe as they arrive and depart school. We also share the tragic story out of North Carolina where the local constabulary has taken things too far in an effort to discourage parents from allowing kids to walk around in their own community.

Join Miha, Kevin, and Chloe as they explore the challenges of getting students safely to school and what you can do to encourage your community leaders to do to make sure that student safety is a priority.

🔧 Topics Covered:
 – Introduction to Chloe Dahl (1:23)
 – Chloe’s story  (2:43) 
 – Talking to your community about student safety around schools (8:55)  
 – Benefits from kids walking and biking to school(11:11)
 – Chaos at school pick-up and drop-off and scramble crossings (12:00)
 – Safe routes to school in our work and experience across CA (21:19)
 – Tragedy in North Carolina (23:30)
 – Washington State’s new shared streets law (28:50)

Read more about daylighting and get ideas for how to encourage your elected officials to enforce daylighting:  https://calwalks.org/blog/2025/5/27/calbike-and-california-walks-call-on-cities-to-implement-daylighting-to-save-lives 

Learn more about Walk Bike Roll CA at https://www.walkbikerollca.org/

 🎙️ Hosts: California Walks Co-EDs, Miha Babalai and Kevin Shin

🔔 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell so you never miss an episode of Walking Stories!

Youtube: https://youtu.be/fEQCmI_uWb8

Learn more about California Walks and make sure you donate to support our work!
https://www.calwalks.org/donate

Don’t forget to buy your very own California Walks t-shirt!
https://www.calwalks.org/merchstore

💬 Drop your thoughts below: Have you ever had a challenging encounter with law enforcement as a pedestrian?

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Walking Stories Podcast - Episode 003

Los Caminos de la Vía is a project that came out of the Comunidades Activas y Seguras (Safe and Active Communities) Workshop of California Walks and UC Berkeley SafeTREC. It focuses on helping Spanish-speaking communities in California improve pedestrian and bicycle safety in their cities. This mini podcast highlights community concerns through storytelling, helps raise awareness about pedestrian and bicycle safety, and highlights solutions proposed by the community.

This podcast was prepared in cooperation with the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS). The opinions, findings and conclusions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of OTS.

Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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