What Is SB 1167?

Senate Bill 1167 (SB 1167) is a California bill that clarifies the legal definition of electric bicycles and prevents higher-powered e-motos from being marketed or sold as e-bikes. The legislation requires proper classification and consumer disclosures for e-motos while helping preserve the safety and integrity of California's e-bike system.

Senate Bill 1167, Vehicles: Electric Bicycles, authored by Senator Catherine Blakespear, is a key piece of legislation this term for Streets Are For Everyone (SAFE).

Co-sponsored by SAFE, Streets For All, CalBike, and PeopleForBikes, the bill addresses growing concerns about the misclassification, regulation, and marketing of electric two-wheeled vehicles in California.

After years of organizing, public outreach, coalition building, and relentless advocacy, Streets Are For Everyone gathered with Los Angeles officials for a press conference to celebrate the completion of Phase 3 of the Griffith Park Safety and Active Transportation Improvement Project. The project provides park visitors with protected Class IV bike lanes, speed humps, traffic-calming measures, improved signage, and various safety improvements along Crystal Springs Drive and Zoo Drive.

Advocates and community members celebrated after the press conference with a victory lap through Griffith Park, biking on the streets they helped transform through years of dedicated advocacy.

This week, Metro approved a significant motion on the future of transportation in Los Angeles, bringing us one step closer to completing the main gap in the LA River Bike Path!

Why is this So Important?

Completing the gap in the LA River Bike Path through DTLA would drastically transform how people move through Los Angeles County.

When completed, the LA River Bike Path would connect two world-class bike paths, creating a continuous 32-mile route from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach.

For a state that prides itself on progressive leadership, California’s complete, utter disregard for human life and the protection of innocent civilians from drunk drivers suggests anything but “progress” when it comes to DUI policy. Abhorrent and lax DUI laws have long shown the carelessness of legislators and the California DMV regarding the implementation of effective, consistent, and fair consequences for offenders.

Finish The Ride & Finish The Run is Streets Are For Everyone's annual fundraising ride and run that supports road safety advocacy, victim support, education, and policy efforts to create safer streets throughout California.

Thousands of riders, runners, volunteers, sponsors, and supporters came together on May 2 and 3, 2026, at the Autry Museum in Griffith Park for Finish The Ride & Finish The Run Griffith Park 2026 to support safer streets and honor victims and survivors of traffic violence.

And what an incredible weekend it was! Together, we celebrated something bigger than a ride or a run. We showed that safer streets are worth fighting for and that a strong community can create lasting change.

On the day before Mother’s Day, Saturday, May 9th, Streets Are For Everyone and People’s Vision Zero held a Ghost Tire Memorial in Westwood outside the 99 Ranch Market to honor the victims of the mass traffic fatality that claimed three lives earlier this year. In the shadow of the approaching holiday, advocates and grieving families gathered to share their stories and demand immediate changes so that fewer families are forced to mark Mother’s Day in grief instead of celebration.

Two years ago, on April 18, 2024, 12-year-old Derick Serrano was walking home from Carver Middle School when he was hit and killed by a speeding driver at Vernon and Wadsworth.

He should have been safe, and he should have made it home.

When he didn’t, the community stepped up, demanding the safety that every child deserves and the reassurance every parent should have.

This year marked a major milestone for Streets, Art, SAFE, the high school competition that aims to educate students about traffic safety through creative expression.

The program continued to expand beyond Southern California, bringing student creativity and traffic safety advocacy to Northern California and Texas. What began as an initiative in Los Angeles continues to grow into a movement, empowering students across regions to use art and storytelling to make streets safer for everyone.

Transforming a dangerous street to a welcoming, safer one unfortunately takes years of advocacy, community pressure, and persistence. So when a meaningful step forward is taken, we like to applaud the efforts that made it finally happen.

Real change is possible, but it only becomes real when people keep demanding it.

At Streets Are For Everyone, we spend a lot of time holding Los Angeles accountable for its broken promises on street safety.

Today, we get to celebrate something different.

Today, we get to celebrate a project that is finally complete.

In January 2023, a series of major winter storms tore through the Southern California coast, severely damaging a stretch of the Marvin Braude Beach Bike Path near Dockweiler Beach. The damage was so destructive that a 1-mile section has been closed entirely for over two years.

On March 21, 2026, students, educators, industry professionals, and community leaders came together at LA Center Studios to celebrate the 10th annual Streets, Art, SAFE Awards Ceremony in Southern California.

This milestone year marked a decade of empowering young creatives to use art and storytelling to raise awareness around traffic safety and inspire meaningful change in their communities.

This season, 1,228 students from 68 schools submitted an incredible 417 films and posters, each one tackling critical issues like distracted driving, impaired driving, pedestrian safety, and sustainable transportation. Their work reflects not only creativity, but a deep understanding of the real-world impact of traffic violence.

This year marks a major milestone for Streets, Art, SAFE: ten years of empowering high school students to learn about traffic safety—and then demonstrate that learning through creativity.

At the heart of the program is a simple but powerful educational model. Students first learn core road safety concepts, risks, and behaviors.

They then reinforce that knowledge by creating public service announcements (PSAs) through film or poster design, translating what they’ve learned into clear, compelling messages aimed at their peers. In doing so, students don’t just absorb information; they actively apply it, reflect on it, and advocate for safer choices.

Last week, SAFE and Festival Trail co-hosted a Finish the LA River Bike Path by 2028" webinar. This event brought together advocates and community members who all share a common goal: pushing Metro to finally close the eight-mile gap in the LA River Bike Path and deliver 32 miles worth of safe, continuous active transportation across Los Angeles County.

The LA River Bike Path is one of the region’s most important yet incomplete pieces of infrastructure. While several segments already serve thousands of cyclists and walkers each year, the gap through downtown LA continues to force people onto dangerous streets,

2025 was a powerful year for Streets Are For Everyone. From meaningful policy wins to impactful events and growing grassroots advocacy, we made real progress toward safer streets for everyone. 

This year, through advocacy events, media, and other organizational efforts, SAFE’s outreach generated over 700 million impressions, all with the underlying message that increasing safety on our roads is not just something nice to do but something that MUST be done. 

The Current State of the LA River Bike Path 

The LA River Bike Path has long been a vision for a healthier, more connected Los Angeles. 

In a culture long dominated by car use, prioritizing active transportation represents a meaningful shift toward safer streets, cleaner air, and more equitable access to mobility. This infrastructure can transform the river corridor into a shared public space that connects communities, supports daily travel and recreation, and provides a mode shift for how Angelenos move through their city.

2025 was a banner year for Streets Are For Everyone’s state policy and legislation team.

We worked on more bills, sponsored more, and achieved a higher win rate than in any previous year.

There were, of course, a few important bills that we frustratingly lost the fight on, but it doesn’t mean we’ve given up on them. 

SAFE is here to serve the people of Los Angeles and California. Our success is measured not by numbers alone, but by the lives we touch and the communities we help strengthen.

Thanks to hundreds of volunteers and advocates who have shown up, spoken out, and taken action, we’ve been able to do more, take on more projects, and save more lives.

If you look at this map of SAFE Grassroots Advocacy Projects, you’ll see we have 28 different advocacy projects happening across Southern California. There is too much going on for a single blog, but we are going to roll out info on ALL of our projects over the next several newsletters and also work to improve our website so you can stay updated on progress as it happens.  

Speeding remains one of the leading causes of traffic deaths in California. The Assembly Bill (AB) 645 Speed Safety Systems pilot program was designed to address it head-on. The bill authorizes a five-year pilot program to implement a predetermined number of automated speed cameras across six pilot cities (San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Glendale, Los Angeles, and Long Beach), along with Malibu, which was added to the bill a year later. With this program, the state created an opportunity to test a proven, life-saving tool already in use by cities across the nation, such as Seattle, Philadelphia, and New York.

Yet, as of today, implementation progress varies dramatically from city to city, and the delays continue to put the lives of residents and anyone who walks, bikes, or drives in the city at risk.

On Saturday, October 11, SAFE joined Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez and his CD13 team at Barnsdall Art Park to unveil our new electric bike lane sweeper and announce its name, chosen from more than 140 submissions in a community naming competition.

The new sweeper, named Sweeping Beauty, is the first of its kind in the City of Los Angeles, and certainly not the last. 

Two people died per day, on average, as a result of traffic violence on Los Angeles County roads in 2024. Connected to those people were countless family members, loved ones, co-workers, and more who are forever impacted by these unnecessary and preventable losses.

For the past seven years, SAFE has commemorated World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims by telling the stories of those whose lives were cut short and by advocating for meaningful change across the county.

This year, we continued that commitment by honoring the victims, uplifting their families, and pushing for safer streets in every community.

We gathered with partner nonprofit organizations and local and state agencies to honor the 711 people who lost their lives on Los Angeles County roadways in 2024.