Getting Around Sac

@HelenHeinrich1 There were some bike rental places, by the hour or day, but I haven’t kept up, so no current info. Definitely spend some time on the American River parkway trail.

@HelenHeinrich1 Yes, Lime operates the bike share system. Availability is pretty good in the central city, not outside. Maintenance is lacking, so give yourself time to get another bike if the first has problems. Kind of expensive, but that is the bike-share trend.

To date, we've funded over 23,000 projects, kick-starting repair of 4,600 bridges and improving almost 70,000 miles of roads. Every week, shovels are hitting the ground around the country — and we're just getting started.

@louismirante We just can’t violate housing law year after year and not expect the legislature to not be grumpy.

Intersection design ideas for the @CityofSacPW update of the Street Design Standards, with protected intersections and roundabouts. gettingaroundsac.blog/2023/04/11/sac…

Major props to the designer and contractor of this project. They went beyond the minimim and did a good job adding temporary walkways and protected bike lanes. #Bicycle #bikelane #infrastructure #protectedcorner #MUTCD #Engineering #quickbuild

Streets are better when they’re filled with people, rather than just parked cars.

Maybe it isn't the litter but the Caltrans freeways and roadways that is the real problem. A take-off on the "Let's Change This to That' greenwashing campaign. gettingaroundsac.blog/2023/04/11/thi…

This award-winning “complete street” redesign in Hyattsville, Maryland is just a deadly, greenwashed stroad. It doesn’t protect anyone outside an automobile and drivers routinely speed due to the design. In 2021, a woman walking across it was fatally struck by an automobile.

966. That's the number of people killed while #biking in 2021, as reported by @NHTSAgov in its newly-released fatality data. It's the highest number in more than four decades. Benchmarking #bikedata like this is crucial for demanding #SafeStreetsForAll ➡️ bikeleague.org/new-fatality-d…

@OTS_CA @CaltransHQ @CHP_HQ Do you have any evidence that this sort of campaign reduces distracted driving? Or is this just another one of your efforts to divert attention from necessary redesign of roadways and automated speed enforcement?

PRESS RELEASE: Statewide media campaign encourages Californians to 'Get Off Your Apps' and focus on what matters: Getting home safely. Read the release: bit.ly/3Kp6Dbh | @CaltransHQ @CHP_HQ #DistractedDrivingAwareness

@marcelemoran NYPD is a criminal enterprise.

"Across the 12 states, we found that minimizing further highway expansion was the most important lever to avoid putting upward pressure on transportation emissions." Great analysis from @Climate_Center @RockyMtnInst georgetownclimate.org/blog/states-in…

@StrongTowns Engineers focus on mobility, moving at speed (for all users), and not about access, getting to where you want to go, which is often *across* the street, not along the street. I am glad that Strong Towns is delving into the failure of Complete Streets.

@StrongTowns I have long felt very uncomfortable with the Complete Streets concept, with my main criticism being that CS policies almost never address the frequency of safe *crossings* of streets. The focus has always been on travel along the corridor, and not across the corridor.

@trainfacts2022 @alaina_pitt The sick irony here is that EMS and fire respond to vehicle crashes much more often than other emergencies or fire, so wide streets without calming provide more crashes that have to be responded to.

@alaina_pitt the reason i keep hearing is "what if i have an emergency and need to drive faster" lol. occasionally gets transformed by more savvy people into "emergency vehicles need to be able to go 60mph on all residential streets"

Why are people SO against traffic calming & just want to rely on increased enforcement? Is it hyper individualism? Holier-than-thou (I drive safely!)? Racism? All of the above?

@rschauland Yep, the worst of the worst. No one wants to walk or bicycle here, no one wants to cross the street. The city is wasting money maintaining the excess width, width that could have been used for better purposes. Opportunity costs glaringly obvious.

Update: It seems as though the work along 21st St Sacramento and other corners is just for ADA ramps, not curb islands. gettingaroundsac.blog/2023/04/10/upd…

@tanplusblue @StrongTowns As far as can be ascertained from the photos, the sidewalk was NOT widened.

@StrongTowns Is this redesign one step forward, one step back? Sidewalk widened with grass strip -- trees removed and wider motorist sight lines. Median fence -- more dangerous to jaywalk. Road diet with bike lane -- again, tree removal offset with wider sight lines.