Between 2015 and 2024, 22,538 injury or fatal crashes occurred on Sacramento streets.
Sacramento is “unable to build” 700 transportation plans that would cost over $5 billion, reports Madison Smalstig in The Sacramento Bee, including roughly $3 billion of work on dangerous roadways that have seen fatal or severe injury crashes.
While the city adopted a Vision Zero policy in 2017, it did not adjust its funding structure to support new road safety projects, Smalstig explains. “One measure that could appear on the November ballot would impose a half-cent sales tax to fund road maintenance, pedestrian and bicycle safety projects, and transit operations.”
The city has lowered speed limits to 15 miles per hour near 100 local schools and has begun construction on a ‘quick-build’ safety project in Marysville Boulevard, where four people died in crashes in two years. “The project is the result of the quick-build strategy created last year that set aside about $4.6 million to construct some relatively small-scale improvements and interim improvements for larger-scale projects.” According to the article, the city has not hired new staff for those projects due to a $66 million budget shortfall.
Read the full story: At least $5 billion needed for Sacramento’s backlog to fix roads, improve safety
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