by foot, bicycle, and public transit (car-free!)
I wrote in March and May about the Marysville Blvd Vision Zero project phase 1: Marysville Blvd VZ Safety Project starts and Marysville Blvd VZ Phase 1 complete. Now for a closer look at phase 2. The city s project page is Marysville Blvd Vision Zero. Marysville Blvd is one the 2018 Vision Zero Action Plan top 5 [ ]
Part four of what’s next, part three being What’s next: squeeze roadways, part two being What’s Next: parking, and part one being What’s next: freeways. Radical ideas for what to do now that the road safety and transit initiative SaferSacStreets did not make the November ballot. The SaferSacStreets citizens initiative would have provided about half of the funds [ ]
Part three of what’s next, part two being What’s Next: parking, and part one being What’s next: freeways. Radical ideas for what to do now that the road safety and transit initiative SaferSacStreets did not make the November ballot. Without additional funding, the city will continue to seek grants for infrastructure projects, and will continue to [ ]
Part two of what s next, part one being What’s next: freeways. Radical ideas for what to do now that the road safety and transit initiative SaferSacStreets did not make the November ballot. Parking is the gateway drug to greater motor vehicle use. Drivers have the expectation that parking will be available at home, at work, [ ]
As I said in my post Slow Down Sacramento’s response to the initiative failure, I really like Slow Down s thoughts about where to go after the failure of the Safer Sac Streets initiative to make the November ballot. But of course I also have some more radical ideas. It will probably take a few posts to [ ]
I was incorrect in saying there don t seem to be automated license plate readers (ALPR) in the City of Sacramento. I was looking at a map that showed only Flock cameras, and the ones in the city are not Flock. I think they are Motorola L5F devices. In looking at the devices at J Street [ ]
As I previously posted (SaferSacStreets doesn’t make the ballot), the citizen initiative in the City of Sacramento to fund roadway safety and transit did not gather enough valid signatures for the November 2026 ballot. Slow Down Sacramento/Isaac Gonzalez sent an email yesterday on the question of Where do we go from here? . I want to acknowledge [ ]
In today s SacBee, two articles by Ariane Lange keep the focus on victims of traffic violence. Before Ariane Lange, now joined by Madison Smalstig, the SacBee had always parroted law enforcement assessments of traffic violence crashes, which almost always blamed the victim, and rarely the driver, except in cases of egregious DUI. Law enforcement has [ ]
I wrote a blog post for Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR), How to build successful transit, in August 2025, a year ago. It is probably one of the most valuable and insightful posts STAR made, as important today as it was then. I attended the last SacRT Board meeting on July 27. On the agenda [ ]
Police shutting down Old Sacramento streets to cars in response to weekend violence, SacBee, 2026-07-31, https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article316718152.html It is interesting to see SacPD and Downtown Sacramento Partnership acknowledging the correlation between crime and private motor vehicles. Causation? I’ll speculate yes. Why is there motor vehicle access to Old Sacramento, at any…