2025 Active Transportation Program (Cycle 7): Summary of Statewide, Small Urban, and Rural Projects

January 14, 2025

The California Active Transportation Program (ATP) is the state’s only dedicated funding source for projects supporting walking and bicycling. Since its inception, ATP projects have benefited urban, rural, and Tribal communities across the state. These projects are critical to meeting California’s climate, safety, and equity goals. In December 2024, the California Transportation Commission (CTC) awarded funding to 13 projects: 9 projects were selected in the Statewide component, and 4 projects in the Small Urban and Rural component. All funds will directly benefit disadvantaged communities, providing more equitable transportation access and prioritizing safety for the most vulnerable road users.

The Cycle 7 Active Transportation Program Statewide and Small Urban and Rural component projects are summarized below.

Statewide Component

9 projects totaling $110.534 million (including matching funds) with $84.35 million in Active Transportation Program funding.
5 of the 9 projects include Safe Routes to School components.

Small Urban and Rural Component

4 projects totaling $59.609 million (including matching funds) with $16.87 million in Active Transportation Program funding.
2 of the 4 projects include Safe Routes to School components.
1 project to fund a Tribal Active Transportation Plan

Infrastructure Project Activities

Projects aim to increase cyclist and pedestrian comfort and safety through construction or improvement of sidewalks with curb ramps and gutter extensions, ADA ramps, bike lanes, high visibility crosswalks, Class IV bikeways, trails, rapid flashing beacons, and streetlights.

2 photos side by side, left photo has a road next to a grass area, right photo has a road with a person on a bike and 2 trucks — **Example: City of Visalia Large Infrastructure Project: Beyond the Lanes – Elevating Santa Fe Street.** This large infrastructure project in Visalia will improve multiple corridors – two of which are depicted in the images below. The project will reconstruct the existing road-adjacent land to a 10-foot-wide multi-use trail, create protected intersections, close multiple gaps, install a traffic circle, as well as add pedestrian and bicycle facilities in the neighboring community of Goshen.

Non-Infrastructure Project Activities

Non-Infrastructure (NI) project activities fall into the following categories: regional and community initiatives, and Safe Routes to School (SRTS). Of the 7 funded projects that contain NI activities for ATP Cycle 7, all contained SRTS activities and 4 included community activities and regional activities.

These NI programs seek to educate and encourage community members to walk and bike to common destinations in a variety of ways. Group walks and bike rides, community bike repair workshops, and community safety campaigns aim to give residents the support they need to feel safe and comfortable using active travel modes as a part of everyday life. Implementers aim to reach as many people as possible by delivering these programs where people live, work, and play.

Two bar graphs showing frequency of community initiative activities and frequency of Safe Routes to School actvities. — *Source: 2025 Active Transportation Program (Cycle 7) Applications*

Photo of a group of people gathered around listening to one man speak. — **Example: Salinas community gathers for a walk audit.** For the Salinas SRTS plan, city staff and residents conducted walk audits and distributed parent and student surveys for each school in Salinas. The surveys received a total of 1,282 responses including those from 125 parents of students.

These innovative ATP projects will continue to help protect the environment, improve public health, and advance transportation equity throughout California.

Projects not selected in the Statewide component that are located in one of the ten large Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) will be considered for funding through the applicable MPO component, which has $67,480,000 available in funding. The MPO-selected projects will be adopted by the CTC in June 2025.