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  • Street Typologies Overview

    Street Typologies Overview

    To fulfill the city’s Streets for People goal and the 2040 General Plan, streets must be designed and redesigned in a way that sets a different vision for the purpose of streets.

  • Lane Widths

    Lane Widths

    Over 80% of the fatalities and serious injuries on Sacramento roadways happen on streets signed between 30 and 45 mph. Taking a serious approach to Vision Zero will mean addressing these higher-speed, higher-volume roads. Managing street lane widths is one important tool in the toolbox of street (re)design.

  • The Importance of Street Design

    The Importance of Street Design

    What is the purpose of the public right of way? In what ways can we transform our communities by redesigning our streets?

  • Streets for People – Street Design Standards

    Streets for People – Street Design Standards

    We are Strong SacTown — Streets for People Design Group, a group of Sacramentans advocating for updated street designs that will rank safety, livability, and economic vitality above vehicle throughput or speed; where congestion relief will not be the goal in street design.

  • Leckdowns: Nature’s Tracing Paper

    Leckdowns: Nature’s Tracing Paper

    Every fall season, leaves blanket the street, and cars cut paths through them. The remaining patches of leaves effectively “neck down” the street and represent areas that cars do not fully utilize.

  • Sacramento’s Dangerous One-Way Streets

    Sacramento’s Dangerous One-Way Streets

    One-way streets in Sacramento’s central city are loud, harmful, dangerous, unproductive, and prop up the Suburban Experiment.