 1999 The California Bicycle Coalition co-sponsors Assembly Bill 1475, which invests $115,000,000 over five years in bicyclist and pedestrian safety projects near California schools, creating the nation's first statewide Safe Routes to School program.The California Bicycle Coalition rewrites the bicycling section of the California Driver's Manual to better educate motorists about the presence of bicyclists on roads.The California Bicycle Coalition gets the DMV to include a question about bicyclists’ right to “take the lane” in the mix of those questions used on the exam.