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Table of Contents:
Name / Philosophy / Introduction
General Objectives
Pedestrian Oriented Strategies
Transit Oriented Strategies
Bicycle Oriented Strategies
Neighbors Working with Neighbors Street Program
Safe Routes to School
Trucks and Freight
Transportation Demand Management Programs
Performance Standards
Advantages/Disadvantages
Funding Sources
Attachments/ References
General Objectives
Pedestrian Oriented Strategies
Transit Oriented Strategies
Bicycle Oriented Strategies
Trucks and Freight
Vehicle Oriented Strategies
Arden Arcade Neighborhood Oriented Strategies
Construction Strategies
Air Quality
Performance Standards
Advantages / Disadvantages
Exhibits
Name / Philosophy
Strategies
Advantages / Disadvantages
Maps
The Arden Arcade Community Plan Update had its Phase II kick off meeting on October 27, 2001. The Transportation Team was established on that day, and continued to meet semi-monthly or weekly through the middle of March 2002. The following individuals attended meetings. Asterisks refer to the core group that contributed to the Solution Sets.
Barrett Alexander Ron Anderson * Willie Anderson*
Ann Blazina* Merick Chaffee Brian Davin*
Bill Davis* Dave Franke* Loretta Frei
Electra Gemmill Joye Gephart* Mike Gephart*
Hilary Gould* Taiwo Jaiyeoba Levi Jenson
Rod Jett Karen Klinger* Ann Kohl*
Alex Martin* Tom Martin Brenda Mitchell*
David Mitchell* Marlin Ogden Carolyn Pretzer*
Bruce Rogers* Becky Starr* James Umbach*
Robert Yoha*
Becky Starr, Ann Kohl and Jim Umbach served as community co-chairs and Dave Franke, Principal Civil Engineer with the County Department of Transportation (DOT), was staff co-chair of the Team. Ann Blazina, Dave Franke, and Loretta Frei took meeting minutes. All core members participated in formulating and writing the Solution Sets. An on-line chat group set up by Jim Umbach facilitated communications. Dave Franke, County Department of Transportation, provided valuable staff support, professional expertise and experience.
In order to educate ourselves about local transportation issues and history, we coordinated a meeting January 23 with 24 community groups entitled “Explore Bus Rapid Transit- alternative Transportation for our Times.” Guest speakers were: David Mogavero, architect and urban planner, Graham Carey, Project Engineer for BRT from Lane District Transit in Oregon, James Corless, with Surface Transportation Policy Project, and Mike Wiley with Sacramento Regional Transit. Over sixty community representatives, private transportation consultants, and city and county public works staff attended the meeting. Supervisor Muriel Johnson attended and lent her support.
In addition, the following guest speakers attended one of our meetings and gave a presentation in their area of expertise:
Ron Anderson – Walk Sacramento – Pedestrian Advocacy
Jeff Clarke – Regional Traffic Analysis, DOT
Dave Franke – 1993 Transportation Plan, TruckTask Force
Alan Hirsch – Bus Rapid Transit, SACTEN
Jude Lamare – Air Quality, Cleaner Air Partnership
Doug Maas – Intelligent Transportation Systems, DOT
Tony Mihanovich – American River Bridge Crossing Alternatives, Former County Park Commissioner
Theron Roschen – South Watt Area Transportation Study, DOT
Matt Satow – Fulton Avenue Enhancement Project
Walt Siefert – Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates
Paul Zykofsky – Center for Livable Communities/Local Government Commission
In addition to the three Solution Sets included, a fourth solution set was developed and considered by the group. The name of the set was “Increase Road Capacity,” and the philosophy was to have Arden Arcade “serve as a conduit for auto traffic in the region.” It included multiple road widening projects within the Arden Arcade community and an auto bridge(s) over the American River. This set was ultimately discarded since it reflected outdated transportation philosophy and did not represent the community’s priorities, as spelled out in Phase I of the Arden Arcade Community Plan Update process.
Acronym Decoder and Definitions
Most of these acronyms and definitions occur within the main document. However, some additional acronyms and words are defined as they may be encountered in related issues and discussions having to do with transportation.
1. ADA – Americans with Disabilities Act – The intent is to extend Civil Rights to individuals who have disabilities that limit major life activities. Eliminating barriers in the built environment is a key element in complying with the ADA.
2. BRT – Bus Rapid Transit – includes features of light rail, but has greater flexibility, lower cost, less impacts and can be designed block by block with neighbors. Features include: a designated lane or guideway to remove the bus from traffic congestion at chokepoints or along a corridor, low floor buses for faster boarding, prepaid fares to simplify and speed boarding, signals stay green for buses to avoid congestion at intersections, improved stops and stations to inform and invite ridership.
3. BTA - Bicycle Transportation Account
4. BTP – Bicycle Transportation Plans
5. Circulation Element - The purpose of a Circulation Element is to facilitate the safe, speedy and efficient movement of people and goods throughout the Community. It deals with transportation policies in the Sacramento County General Plan.
6. CAN – Care About Neighborhoods – consists of four programs developed by the Department of Transportation to deal with the problem of speeding on residential streets. It combines the efforts of concerned residents, the CHP, elementary schools, and County staff into a comprehensive strategy to modify driver behavior and reduce speeding.
7. CCTV – Closed Circuit TeleVision
8. CI 10 H – policy in the Circulation Element “Explore the feasibility of a transit-only crossing of the American River between Watt Avenue and Sunrise Blvd.”
9. Competitive tendering – when government agencies contract out for services. As fiscal difficulties increase, many agencies have converted their urban transport systems to competitive contracting to save money, keep fares affordable, and expand services.
10. CPAC – Community Planning Advisory Council. The purpose of the committee is to provide citizen representatives with the opportunity to participate in, comment on, and review the County Development Plans. Their county supervisor appoints representatives.
11. DOT – Department of Transportation
12. Downgrades – The Sacramento County General Plan Transportation Map was amended by the Board of Supervisors in 2001 to downgrade the addition of more traffic lanes for the following roadways: Fair Oaks Boulevard between Monroe and Eastern (stay at 4), Watt Avenue between Fair Oaks Boulevard and Arden Way (stay at 4), American River Drive (stay at 2), La Riviera Drive (stay at 2), and to remove the 10 lane interchange at the intersection of Fair Oaks Boulevard and Watt Avenue.
13. EIR – Environmental Impact Report – required on all road projects with impacts. Includes analysis of project, air quality, natural resources, traffic counts, cumulative impacts, etc.
14. EPA – Environmental Protection Agency - promotes public health by protecting US air, water and soil from harmful pollution.
15. Functional Clarification: Roadways are grouped into the following categories for the purpose of design, funding, and access:
· Local roads – permit direct access to residential properties, abutting lands, and connections to higher classifications of roadways. They offer the lowest mobility and usually contain no bus routes. Service to through traffic movements usually is deliberately discouraged. (2 lanes)
· Collector streets – provide both land access services and traffic circulation within residential neighborhoods and commercial and industrial areas. It differs from the arterial system in that facilities on a collector system may penetrate residential neighborhoods distributing trips from the arterials through the area to their ultimate destination. (2 lanes)
· Arterials – serve major centers of activity, high traffic volume corridors and supplements freeways for long trip desires. They include, but are not restricted to, partially controlled access facilities. They provide a high degree of mobility, while providing access to commercial and industrial areas. Ideally, an arterial does not penetrate residential neighborhoods. (4 lanes)
· Thoroughfares- A high volume street with some access limitation. Special thoroughfare is similar in function, but it will accommodate even more traffic with partially controlled access to reduce driveway and turn conflicts. (6 to 8 lanes)
· Freeway – has full control of abutting land to access a highway, is fully or partially controlled by public authority. Full control of access means that the authority to control access is exercised to give preference to through traffic by providing access connections with selected public roads only and by prohibiting crossings at grade or direct private driveway connections. Freeways may be toll or non-toll facilities. A freeway is sometimes called an “expressway” or “parkway.” (4-10 lanes)
· Interchange- An urban interchange is a grade-separated facility where two surface streets intersect. Access between the streets is provided. Howe Avenue and Fair Oaks Boulevard is on the 1993 Transportation Map to be an urban interchange.
16. GIS – Geographic Information System – is a computer system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information, i.e. data identified according to their locations. A GIS makes it possible to link, or integrate, information that is difficult to associate through any other means.
17. GPS – Global Positioning System – is a satellite navigation system funded and controlled by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. It provides specially coded satellite signals that can be processed in a GPS receiver, enabling the receiver to compute position, velocity and time. Navigation in three dimensions is the primary function of GPS. Receivers are made for aircraft, ships, and ground vehicles and for hand carrying by individuals.
18. Grade separation - a highway or railroad crossing using an underpass or overpass. A local example is the grade separation just south of Folsom Blvd. on Power Inn Rd. where the Light Rail tracks go over the vehicle traffic passing under.
19. Green streets – Pedestrian friendly areas.
20. Guideway - Fixed guideway transit is a family of transportation technologies that run on preset guideways. For Bus Rapid Transit guideways are a dedicated lane constructed with raised, concrete curbs that guide the bus. The buses are fitted with small guide wheels to keep them on track. Guideways help buses move smoothly through crowded traffic along corridors or through traffic chokepoints where they are out of automobile traffic. They require less width than dedicated lanes.
21. Heat sump effect – Expanse of asphalt (parking lot or street that is not shaded) that absorbs and increases heat on people and structures and increases air conditioning costs in the summer months.
22. Home zones – A home zone is a street or group of streets where pedestrians have priority and cars travel at little more than walking pace (less than the 25 mph that is current for most residential areas); and, there may be extended pavement areas where people can sit and children can play. This exists principally to reduce child accidents. Homes zones are a European concept that has been in place in many countries for about 25 years.
23. HOV – High Occupancy Vehicle is any vehicle, bus, van, or car with multi riders. HOV lanes are commonly referred to as commuter lanes and are reserved for use by HOV’s (usually two riders during peak commute hours). HOV lanes increase roadway capacity and can lead to increased vehicle miles traveled and affect air quality.
24. ISTEA – Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 – Federal law requiring that the public be involved in transportation decisions from the beginning of long-range planning.
25. ITS – Intelligent Transportation Systems – The purpose of ITS is to move more vehicles through an intersection during peak hours, making efficiency of travel a priority and to reduce the number of stops or standing vehicles that will improve pollution results.
26. Jitney – a taxi that follows a fixed route through neighborhoods and can connect to commercial and other destinations and to BRT or bus express service. RT could coordinate routes and service.
27. LOS – Level of Service: traffic engineering descriptions
· Level of Service A – describes a condition of free flow, with low volumes and high speeds
· Level of Service B – is the zone of stable flow, with operating speeds beginning to be restricted somewhat by traffic conditions. Drivers still have reasonable freedom to select their speed and lane of operation.
· Level of Service C – is still in the zone of stable flow, but the higher volumes more closely control speeds and maneuverability.
· Level of Service D – approaches unstable flow, with tolerable operating speed being maintained, though considerably affected by changes in operating conditions.
· Level of Service E – cannot be described by speed alone, but represents operations at even lower operating speeds than in Level D, with volumes at or near the capacity of the highway.
· Level of Service F – describes forced flow operation at low speeds, where volumes are below capacity.
28. LRT – Light Rail Train
29. Measure “A” Sales Tax – a half-cent sales tax for transportation projects and to fund road and transit maintenance. It expires in the year 2009. Transit now receives only 1/6 of a cent (essential funds to operate transit) and the majority of the funds are spent on roads.
30. MPO – Metropolitan Planning Organization – is required to be established by the federal government for regional planning on transportation projects. SACOG is the Sacramento Region organization.
31. MTP – Metropolitan Transportation Plan – SACOG takes the transportation projects of the local jurisdictions and put them together for the plan. They are required to submit a plan every three years.
32. Multi-modal – a transportation system that addresses various modes of transit/ transport: pedestrian, bicycle, car, motorcycle, van, and truck.
33. NPA – Neighborhood Preservation Area – is an overlay land use zone that can have special requirements and different zones than the standard for the county. NPA’s in the Arden-Arcade: Arden Park, Sierra Oaks Vista, Arden Oaks, and Beresford Heights.
34. PACE Car Program – developed by David Engwicht who teamed with Smart Growth. It is a program that depends upon drivers who volunteer to display the Pace Car emblem in their window and who maintain the speed limit in a physical effort to focus driver consciousness on their neighborhood driving habits…. The theory rides on the expectation that when not in their cars people will be walking, cycling, playing or socializing in the street. The mere presence of people can calm traffic, along with street parked vehicles. Residents agree to drive within the speed limits.
35. Prop. 65 – Also known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. It requires the Governor to publish a list of chemicals that are known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Any company with 10+ employees that operated within the State or sells products in California must comply with the requirements of Prop. 65. It does not apply to mobile sources that are one of the main sources of airborne toxics.
36. Road Diets – roadway conversions that help formerly “fat” streets become leaner, safer, and more efficient. This can provide space for retrofitting sidewalks, bicycle lanes and landscaping. They become multi-modal and some changes can increase the value of existing properties.
37. RT – Regional Transit
38. RTPA – Regional Transportation Planning Agency
39. RTPO - Regional Transportation Planning Office
40. SACOG – Sacramento Area Council of Governments - is the planning agency for Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba Counties, and the cities of Davis, Folsom, Galt, Isleton, Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Lincoln, Live Oak, Marysville, Rocklin, Roseville, Sacramento, West Sacramento, Wheatland, Winters, Woodland, and Yuba City.
41. Shuttles – small-to-medium sized mini vans or buses that operate (usually) between two main fixed points and can connect neighborhoods or commercial centers to community destinations and regional transit facilities.
42. Smart Growth - protects public health and environmental quality, conserves energy, open space and farmland, and improves the quality of life in communities by promoting new transportation choices and transit-oriented development.
43. SOV – Single Occupancy Vehicle
44. STIP – State Transportation Improvement Project – is a multi-year capital improvement program of transportation projects on and off the State Highway System, funded with revenues from the State Highway Account and other funding sources.
45. STPP – Surface Transportation Policy Project - the Surface Transportation Policy Project is a national coalition of over 200 organizations working to promote transportation policies that protect neighborhoods, provide better travel choices and promote social equity. STPP has offices in Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Washington, DC.
46. SWAT – South Watt Avenue Transportation study. This study area includes Watt Avenue from south of the bridge over Highway 50 and the Folsom intersection to Kiefer Boulevard. Key elements discussed are a grade separation for light rail at Folsom Boulevard, changes to the off ramps from Highway 50 and widening Watt from 4 to 6 lanes.
47. TCRP funds - Transportation Congestion Relief Program – money provided for 141 projects to: relieve congestion, provide safe & efficient movement of goods, provide inter-modal connectivity, completely fund some projects, jump-start some projects, and make investments in transit & rail. The Authority and Scope comes from AB 2928 & SB 1662.
48. TDA – Transportation Development Act - provides two major sources of funding for public transportation: the Local Transportation fund and the State Transit Assistance fund. These funds are for the development and support of public transportation to meet the transit needs that exist in California.
49. TDM – Transportation Demand Management – A general term for actions that encourage a decrease in the demand for our existing transportation systems. A few strategies include:
· ridesharing and transit use
· zoning and ordinances that promote transit use and mixed-use development
· public education about transportation issues
· park-and-ride facilities
· various driving incentives and ridesharing incentives
· commute trip reduction programs
· trading Places programs for employees to work closer to where they live
50. TEA – Transportation Equity Act – for the 21st Century was enacted June 9, 1998, as Public Law 105-178. This law authorizes the Federal surface transportation programs for highways, highway safety, and transit for the 6-year period 1998-2003. It also requires citizen participation in transportation decisions.
51. TMA – Transportation Management Association – Example: Building owners and managers established the Transportation Management Association of San Francisco (TMASF), known as The TMA, to provide commuter assistance for their tenants. Early in the 1980's, the City and County of San Francisco's Planning Department began their efforts to frame a less congested future. The downtown development community partnered with the City to create an association to provide those services. TMA’s are located throughout the County and members work with businesses in Sacramento to reduce employee dependence on SOV’s. One example is the Rideshare Program.
52. TMC – Traffic Management Center - CHP, Caltrans and Sacramento Transportation Authority. Sac TMC is one of eight in operation statewide.
53. TOD – Transit Oriented Development - The Regional Transportation Authority is the premier municipal proponent of TOD in North America. It supports TOD based on residents defining how they want their community to look and market forces building the envisioned development.
54. TPO – Transportation Planning Organization - coordinates a comprehensive, multi-modal transportation planning process.
55. Trading Places Program – Voluntary program to help franchise businesses with numerous locations work with their employees to shift work sites closer to where they live. It works well for companies like banks and grocery stores and has been used by Seattle-based Starbucks coffee chain to offer proximate job swapping to the company’s 20,000 coffeehouse workers. Reducing travel time, increasing employee reliability and reducing job turnover are the main motives.
56. Traffic Calming - Traffic calming usually involves changes in street alignment, installation of barriers, and other physical measures to reduce traffic speeds and/or cut-through volumes, in the interest of street safety, livability, and other public purposes.
57. Trench cut – utility companies cut up the road to lay pipe, for example.
58. Urban Growth Boundary – Established in Oregon in the early 1970s as part of a statewide land-use planning program marking the boundaries between rural and urban land. They are intended to encompass an adequate supply of buildable land that can be efficiently provided with urban services (such as roads, sewers, water lines, and street lights) to accommodate the expected growth during a 20-year period. By providing land for urban uses within the boundary, rural lands can be protected from urban sprawl. The objectives are to:
· Plan and promote the efficient use of urban land
· Improve the efficiency of public facilities and services
· Preserve prime farm and forest lands outside the boundary
59. Watt Beautification Project – Update: the project has been approved and is scheduled for Phase 1 advertisement of bids in the autumn of 2002 with completion anticipated in the summer of 2003. The work detail is described as follows: 1) Bike lane installation along the W side of Watt Ave. between Pope and Marconi Aves. 2) Sidewalk installation at Arden Middle School, and between Balmoral and Ben Lomond Drs. 3) Bus shelters with lighting at 13 locations. 4) Landscape existing medians on Watt from Kiefer Bl. to RT station entrance, from Whitney Ave. to Auburn Bl. “Improvements” to some areas of Watt Ave. are not defined.
Name: Transportation for a Livable Community
Philosophy: To promote a high quality alternative mode transportation system for Arden Arcade that provides balance to the past overwhelming investment in wider roads and wider intersections. The goal is to provide future transportation choices for community residents and local and regional commuters, reduce dependency on single occupancy vehicles, improve community health and reduce air pollution.
Introduction:
The following excerpts are from the 1993 Sacramento County General Plan Circulation element: “The advent of the automobile in the early part of the twentieth century brought tremendous mobility to the average citizen of the United States. The ability to travel great distances provided the opportunity to live miles from the workplace. The pattern of settlement in the United States quickly changed, as the automobile became commonplace, and more people moved to homes far from their workplace, on land cheaper than land in the central city. That pattern remains largely the same today.
Opportunities have their costs. Beyond its purchase and operating cost, the automobile imposes costs for road building and maintenance, energy resources, land resources, and environmental damage. The quality of life, buoyed so much by the automobile, deteriorates when too many cars crowd the road. Air quality, commute time, and energy resources are affected. The situation is critical in many large metropolitan areas where traffic delays are rising and air quality is falling.”[1]
Ten years after the adoption of the Sacramento County General Plan regional leaders and planners continue to have concerns about auto oriented transportation planning, the failure to achieve a jobs/housing balance in many communities, and the increase in urban sprawl land use in our region. More and more people live in surrounding rural counties and commute in to workplaces in Sacramento County. Other people live in Sacramento and commute out to workplaces in Rancho Cordova, and Placer County. This has particularly impacted Arden Arcade, as thousands of commuters use our north south streets to pass through our community and neighborhoods. It severely impacts our close-in, older suburban/urban community when volumes of automobiles and trucks make these trips. Large swaths of parking lots and ever-wider streets consume acres and highways feed our local roads. Our property tax roll is diminished, economic revitalization opportunities are ignored and the pattern of traffic congestion is perpetuated.[2]
“Transportation planning has traditionally focused on providing roadways for growing automobile demand.” To balance the overwhelming spending in the past on supporting the growth in automobile demand, it is important now to shift the emphasis towards maintaining our current infrastructure and developing alternatives modes of transportation to the automobile. “Transit should offer greater accessibility, speed, and convenience...Pedestrian and bicycle travel will become safer and more useful for everyday tasks such as travel to work and shopping…the success of transit, pedestrian, and bicycling alternatives is largely dependent on the geographical integration of places of residence, work and retail commerce.”[3] Arden Arcade, to a considerable extent, has key features of this geographical integration. It has a good jobs/housing balance, a diverse population, a large number of people who choose transit or are transit dependent, a growing senior population, more rental than owner occupied housing, and the highest population density in the unincorporated area of Sacramento County. Our community has large employment centers and a large variety of health and retail destination sites. We can build on the fact that in Phase I, of the Arden Arcade Community Plan Update process, residents cited the convenience of services within Arden Arcade as one of the reasons that they live here.
The opportunity exists over the next 25 years to develop a more livable community by reducing the impact of past planning for more and more automobile traffic. We can improve our deteriorating infrastructure to emphasize walking, biking, and transit facilities. Drivers can be encouraged to use transit, bicycle and walk as they come into and through our community. By revitalizing our commercial areas to promote mixed-use development, we can strengthen transit oriented land use, upgrade deteriorating empty commercial areas and add economic vitality to our community.
Solution Set I for the Arden Arcade Community emphasizes:
General Objectives
Provide for alternative forms of transportation (e.g., pedestrian, bicycles, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), express buses, trolleys, neighborhood and commercial shuttles, golf carts and jitneys, etc.) with maximum efficiency and convenience as well as sensitivity to surrounding neighborhoods.
Improve and enhance the quality of life in Arden Arcade:
Road redesign – See Pedestrian, Transit, Bicycle Strategies.
Traffic calming See “Neighbors working with Neighbors Street Program.”
Enforcement – Example AB 2767, which gives the California Highway Patrol a tool for enforcement of speed limits that they did not previously have.
Public Education – “Pace Car Program” (See web site). This is an innovative, low cost way to reduce speeds, especially in residential neighborhoods, and raise public awareness. By citizens pledging to drive the speed limit, their cars become “mobile speed humps” slowing traffic behind them to the speed limit. Participants can also display Pace Car bumper stickers to raise public awareness.” This would be implemented with cooperation from Service clubs (Kiwanis, Rotary, PTA’s, Neighborhood Associations, and local Park Districts. The Arden Arcade Community Planning Advisory Council could take the lead.)
· Increase the safety of our neighborhood and community streets;
Arcade residents and local and regional commuters with choices of alternative modes of transportation (See Pedestrian, Transit and Bicycle Strategies below) and working with employers to reduce and manage travel demand.
Improve Air Quality by promoting alternative modes of travel other than the single occupancy vehicle. Achieve Clean Air by supporting Clean Air Act requirements and the new EPA standards for Ozone and for particulate matter, and address toxic standards in Proposition 65, as applied to mobile sources. [6]
Support a comprehensive in-depth traffic and transit analysis of Arden Arcade streets and connecting roadways. This should include, but not be limited to, origin and destinations studies of existing and future traffic, and existing and projected transit routes and ridership. This worthwhile information should not delay the implementation of the Arden Arcade Community Plan and Solution Set I.
Regional Transit and the County Public Works should hire a consultant to analyze Bus Rapid Transit for Watt, Alta Arden, SWAT and other corridors. See “Scope of Work.” [7]
Support the EXISTING Urban Services Boundary during the General Plan Updates to minimize urban sprawl.
Support Smart Growth principles and Sacramento Area Council of Government (SACOG) and local agencies including Land Use analysis and modeling as routine on regional and local jurisdiction’s road projects. New road projects can affect the loss of open space and lead to urban sprawl development. Utilize the Sacramento Air District “Index” or “Places” programs for land use analysis on revitalization projects in Arden Arcade, particularly in commercial areas, to address land use design elements that enhance transit, bicycle and pedestrian travel modes.
Support the SACOG 2002 Metropolitan Transportation Plan as amended to enhance alternative transportation modes and repair and enhance existing roads and communities, rather than funding new freeways, beltways, wider roads and intersections and funding roads for new urban sprawl development.
Pedestrian Oriented Strategies:
Road diets – Inventory streets in Arden Arcade to determine how many can be put on “diets” to lose lanes and width. This will add to the safety of children, pedestrians and bicyclists. For example, four lane streets with traffic of 20-25,000, or less, auto trips per day can be reduced to two through-travel lanes and a middle turn lane. Another narrowing method that may be used in conjunction with the above, or on any street, is to narrow the travel lanes from the typical 12 feet to as narrow as 10 feet. The extra width gained by either method can then be allocated to adding or widening sidewalks and/or bike lanes.
The County has funding for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) on Watt Avenue and Arden Way. Lines are already in place on Watt. The Consultants list a benefit of ITS as an increase in traffic capacity for roadways of 25%,[8] equal to adding lanes. An EIR should be required on streets adding ITS before it is implemented. Impacts of additional traffic on air quality, neighborhoods and the community, and on local streets should be measured. SACOG’s and other agencies’ cost to maintain the system should be addressed.[9] As a result of the installation of ITS, “taking a lane” for pedestrian, bicycle, and landscaping and a dedicated lane for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), to remove transit from traffic congestion, is now feasible without reducing existing capacity.
Sidewalks – Implement a minimum sidewalk width in Arden Arcade of five feet, without barriers or obstructions. In high pedestrian use areas such as shopping, schools, and civic facilities, increase sidewalk width to at least 6 feet. Fill in all sidewalk “holidays.” Examples of streets needing first priority are Arden Way, Eastern, Watt, Hurley, Fair Oaks Boulevard, Howe (north) El Camino and Marconi. No variances should be given to eliminate the installation of curbs, sidewalks or gutters on new development.
Curbs – All new and retrofitted curbs should be the “hard” 90-degree type as opposed to “rolled” curbs. The American with Disabilities Act (ADA) mandates construction of curb cuts. Curb extensions or reducing curb radii at intersections should also be installed at the same time to provide a tighter turn and reduce turning speeds, shorten the crossing distance for pedestrians, and also improve sight distance between pedestrians and motorists.
Pedestrian access to transit – There should be direct, comfortable, and safe pedestrian routes within ¼ mile of bus stops and within ½ mile of light rail stations.
Pedestrian access and safe travel to commercial areas – New pedestrian standards and new maximum (not minimum) parking standards should be adopted to support alternative transportation modes.
and more accessible and safer to reach by pedestrians. Parking lots should be in the rear or at the side.
Crosswalks at intersections –
Mid-block crossings – Identify streets that need mid-block crossings to enable pedestrians to cross safely. Pedestrians normally will not walk more than 300 feet out of their way to a marked crosswalk before crossing the street. If no mid-block crossing is provided within this distance, then, if feasible, a pedestrian refuge such as a raised median should be provided. Mid-block crosswalks will be the wide zebra type, with pedestrian operated signals to stop traffic. There should be a stop bar painted a minimum of 10 feet preceding crosswalks. Example: Fair Oaks Boulevard crossings are needed between Howe and Monroe.
New ped/bike access – Special pedestrian/bicycle routes to schools, shopping, parks, and other destinations should be developed. Possible routes could be along utility, drainage, or other easements. The county should purchase property near schools to enhance pedestrian/bicycle access for neighborhoods. Complete bike/ped trail through Haggin-Oaks Golf Course.
Trails - Work with local park districts to identify possible funding sources that would allow the County to take possession and maintain existing county easements for pedestrian and/ or bicycle trails along streams and creeks in Arden Arcade. A citizen’s advisory committee of residents should be established to steer the design and identifications of the appropriate sites. Investigate the feasibility of trails along Chicken Ranch Slough connecting to a potential bicycle/ pedestrian bridge over the American River to River Park.
Mini-parks – Develop more neighborhood mini-parks with good pedestrian/bicycle access. Work with schools and local park districts for better pedestrian access and joint use of green areas for parks.
Tree planting and landscaping- Shade trees for pedestrians, bicyclists and bus riders and at bus shelters should receive priority over median landscaping, when a choice must be made because of right-of-way width. The sidewalk should be separated from the street by a planting strip containing shade trees. Sidewalks in commercial areas could be 10 feet and include areas for street trees. Streets impacted by previous road widenings, (example El Camino and Marconi) with homes right on the street, should receive high priority for reducing the street width and/or eliminating the “suicide lane” in order to install sidewalks separated from the street by landscaping with trees.
The key to healthy trees is the right tree in the right place. To implement this the County should work with an ISA certified arborist. Neutralizing or replacing soil, impacted by past poisoning, needs to be addressed.
The trees chosen for street tree planting should be sized by the scale of the streets and the number of lanes, i.e. larger shade trees for wider streets. Palms and other trees, which do not provide shade and are not natives, should be avoided. Trees that historically survive in urban areas and the street environment, such as Sycamore, should receive preference over short- lived or small trees such as crape myrtle and purple plum. Planting shade trees can diminish the heat sump effect of asphalt on streets and in parking lots. Follow up and a maintenance schedules should be part of the plan. Annually the County should follow up on new development projects to insure that the trees were planted and maintained. (Example- West on Watt, just south of Marconi. Building has planting strips but no trees.)
Neighborhood traffic calming – Develop a more comprehensive traffic-calming program to deal with problems such as speeding, illegal passing, and cut-through traffic in Arden Arcade. (See “Neighbors Working with Neighbors Street Program”)
Routes to American River Parkway – Identify and mark all pedestrian and bicycle connections within Arden Arcade to the American River Parkway.
Implement interim Pedestrian Measures for Arden Arcade– Because of lack of infrastructure and high traffic counts Arden Arcade can not wait for the completion of the Pedestrian Master Plan in 2004 or 2005. There should be interim measures undertaken now and priority given to the following:
Expand regional light rail, commuter rail and Bus Rapid Transit as approved by Sacramento Regional Transit Board of Directors to be included in the 2025 SACOG MTP. This includes 7.5 minute headways for peak periods on light rail corridors; bus service with 10 and 15 minute headways on major arterials; Bus Rapid Transit on Stockton, Watt and Sunrise; augmented bus service including evenings and weekends; neighborhood shuttle service and augmented Para transit service.
Expand transit in Arden Arcade from the neighborhoods to all employment, and health, education and activity centers and provide connecting links to community and regional transit by means of:
· Public transit,
· The formation of public and/or privately (commercial and business) funded shuttle bus services or jitney service (fixed route taxis) from neighborhoods, offices and commercial centers. Coordinate this with the Transportation Management Association(s).
Conduct a feasibility study of Competitive Tendering Bus Service, similar to services used in Denver, Seattle, and New Jersey, to expand service, to increase bus service and finance improved transit service.
Expand bus service, express bus routes and bus linkages –
Bus Service:
· Provide additional door-door access for the disabled and the elderly.
· Provide school children with RT bus passes (Sacramento City Model with shared funds)
· Bus turn- out lanes should be discouraged, as it is difficult for buses to reenter traffic lanes.
Express Buses:
Bus Linkages:
· There should be linkages between the Howe, Manlove and Watt, Swanston, Marconi and Watt LRT stations with Arden Arcade Bus Rapid Transit, local bus services, Greyhound Bus Services, Para-transit, retirement home shuttles, commercial connector service, and jitney and other neighborhood shuttles.
Features of BRT on Watt would included:
· Dedicated lane or guideway at traffic choke points or along the corridor for buses to bypass auto congestion;
· Low floor buses that make boarding easier and faster;
· Prepaid fares to simplify and speed boarding;
· Traffic signals that remain green for corridor buses to avoid congestion at intersections;
· Improved stops and stations that invite ridership, expand information on schedules and routes;
· Connecting links to commercial and neighborhood shuttles and/or jitneys.
The final destinations of BRT on Watt could be Antelope in the north and Elk Grove in the South. The design would include a full range of BRT features and it would be done on a block-by-block basis with residents and business owners.
Other Corridors: The CPAC Task Force would explore the feasibility of BRT features for East West corridors in the Arden Arcade Community. Major destination sites such as Kaiser Hospital facilities and corridors with higher density housing and potential high ridership should receive priority. Examples: Alta Arden or Arden Way, Marconi, El Camino, Fair Oaks Blvd. and connections to light rail at Swanston and Marconi stations as well as direct bus routes downtown.
Identify transit (BRT and Express Bus), pedestrian and bicycle revitalization areas, appropriate for high quality Transit Oriented Development (mixed use) projects, in existing commercial and business zones. These could be at existing high ridership transit transfer centers. Examples to be studied could include: El Camino at Watt (major transfer site, transit hub and Arden Arcade community center), Arden Way at Watt (large underutilized parking lots and potential Woodside condo sites), Marconi at Watt, Marconi at Fulton, Marconi at Walnut, Fair Oaks Blvd. at Howe, Howe at Arden Way, as well as others. Revitalization of strip commercial sites along corridors should be studied for infrastructure improvements to encourage and support transit.
Watt Beautification Project expanded - Design of the Watt Beautification project should incorporate a full range of BRT concepts including, but not limited to: bus guideway or dedicated bus lane in the median to bypass auto congestion, traffic signal preemption, queue jumping, prepaid fares, low floor buses, improved stops and stations, etc. At a minimum a dedicated lane or guideway should “take a lane” from Fair Oaks Boulevard south over the Watt Avenue Bridge and Highway 50 to Kiefer Boulevard with a stop on Watt for the Folsom Boulevard Manlove Station. North of Fair Oaks Boulevard a dedicated median lane or guideway could connect to a BRT dedicated lane at Alta Arden going west to existing Light Rail on Arden Way. The design of the specific features north of Fair Oaks Boulevard should be decided on a block-by-block basis with residents and with merchants. BRT is not dependent on ITS being available. Improvements can be made with existing technology.
The Watt Beautification Project should include the recommendations at school sites on Watt included in the Safe Routes to Schools section. [13]
Expand South Watt Avenue Transportation (SWAT) Project - to include Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) a guideway or dedicated lane, from Watt at Keifer Boulevard to La Riviera (current project area) and “take a lane” on the Watt Bridge to Fair Oaks Blvd. The focus of the current near term study should be expanded to include safe, efficient and timely service for transit riders, remove buses from mixed flow congestion lanes and increase access for pedestrians and bicyclists to light rail and the public transportation system. As recommended by the Peer Review Panel, the study should be expanded to include a full study of BRT as outlined in the attached Scope of Work.[14]
Components of the near term project should include:
Components of the long-term project include:
Transit only American River Bridge crossings - Implement CI 10 H (Circulation Element of the 1993 General Plan) and a transit only single lane bridge for Bus Rapid Transit as an expansion of the bicycle pedestrian bridge over the American River at William Pond Park.[15]
Bicycle Oriented Strategies -.
Bicycle Trail System – Promote a high quality on and off-street pedestrian/bicycle system that, where feasible, connects health facilities, major employment, commercial and activity centers to neighborhoods.
Space on Roads – Provide bike lanes on the Arden Arcade roadway system that are clearly delineated from auto lanes and free of debris. Covering open ditches along roadways can provide space to install sidewalks and bicycle facilities. Routine road maintenance resurfacing should include striping for bicycle lanes and installation of asphalt or cement sidewalks. (Asphalt sidewalks are utilized in Seattle and elsewhere successfully. They are less costly to install, easier to repair and are preferred by many walkers and joggers. They can be at usual sidewalk level with a cement curb or be at road level and separated by a broken barrier for use in narrow areas by both bicyclist and pedestrians. Example: Lafayette, California.)
Lower traffic speeds - Speed limits on arterials should be enforced at 35 mph, through a combination of enforcement and traffic calming, in order to keep the speed differential between auto traffic and bicycles low.
Bicycle lane environment should be provided by:
· Safe and convenient riding over barriers, such as the river, thoroughfares and freeways.
· Shade
· Access to transit
· Be Litter free
· Designs described in Pedestrian Strategies
Traffic signal detection and timing – Traffic signals within Arden Arcade should detect the presence of cyclists using the roadway/bike lane system. Traffic signals should be timed to allow cyclists and pedestrians to safely clear the intersections.
Parking – Transit, employment, and commercial centers in Arden Arcade should provide for plentiful, convenient, clean, safe bicycle parking areas for visitors and employees.
Regional bicycle connections- Work with the City of Sacramento, Carmichael and Rancho Cordova and North Highlands as well as SABA and the Bicycle Task Force to identify additional bikeways within the community planning area. Amend the Bikeway Master Plan accordingly. Coordinate funding these improvements with road maintenance projects. [16]
Neighborhood Streets Design Workbook - The County will establish a Task Force comprised of neighborhood representatives, representative from Tree Task Force, innovative local landscape architects and AIA architects and staff from Public works, County Planning and Sacramento Regional Transit. The Task Force will review the proposed Scope of Work and a consultant will be hired to work with the Task Force and write the workbook. A public outreach process will be implemented to review the draft. It will be designed to enable individuals involved in neighborhood planning for their neighborhood streets to make educated and thoughtful decisions and plan for the future. This workbook will be modeled after the “Making Streets that Work” workbook designed by Seattle Design Commission.[17]
The workbook will include hands on worksheets and planning tools and provide information on:
1. What is a Street? The system and how it works (or doesn’t work) Connectivity of neighborhoods to destination sites.
2. The right tool for the Job
a. Inventory of street
b. Looking at symptoms of problems (managing traffic, conditions along streets, pedestrian crossing conditions, reducing auto dependence)
c. Looking at tools to fix problems including but not limited to: Adopt a Street, angle parking, asphalt walkways, bike lanes, bike spot program, bus only lanes and transit queue jump, bus stops bus stop bulb, bus zone landing pads, bus zone lighting, bus zone mural program, chicanes, choker, concrete sidewalks, consolidated utilities, underground utilities, culverts, curbs and gutter, curb bulbs, curb radium reduction, curb ramps, district identification signs, flower planters and banners, full street closure, grassed swales, holiday lighting, increased transit services, landscaping options, left turn signals, LINC, marked crosswalks, medians, modular newspaper rack, neighborhood speed watch , no parking, one-way street, park and ride, partial street closure, pedestrian refuge islands, pedestrian traffic signals, raised intersections, roadway maintenance, roundabout, signs (speed limit, etc.), speed humps, street and area lighting, street cleaning, street furniture, street trees, traffic circles, traffic signals, traffic signal timing, transit passenger shelters, two-way left turn lane, no-pass signs.
3. Putting it all together with public and private agencies and programs
4. Examples of street, enhancements and budgets
5. Pedestrian planning tools - As part of the Neighborhood Street Design
Workbook and the Neighborhood plan there will be additional Pedestrian planning tools:
a. Key Pedestrian Streets Designation – This is appropriate at highest density portions of the community and along logical connections between neighborhoods.
b. “Green” or “Home” Streets Designation – Streets that are pedestrian, bicycle and transit focused or are key connectors to transit. Four different designations are suggested. Designation can depend on restriction they place on vehicular traffic. Can be part of an existing overlay zone, such as Neighborhood Preservation Area or a new zone.
c. Pedestrians and Zoning – Special Pedestrian District overlays in commercial zones. Purpose is to encourage “intense pedestrian interest and activity at street level with a wide variety of retail and service activities and large numbers of shops and services per block. Designation favor development built to the front property line, minimal pedestrian/auto conflicts, and a minimum of auto-oriented uses or interruptions.”
d. Design Review – Adopted design guidelines for revitalizing older strip shopping centers. This would improve the quality of development, increase community involvement in the design and development review process and help articulate a community’s design priorities.
6. Resources
a. Finding funds
Contribution from Neighborhoods
SACOG Neighborhood/Community Design grant program
County Maintenance funds
Safe Routes to Schools
b. Local Government Commission (design ideas)
c. Surface Transportation Policy Project
d. Walk Sacramento
e. Agencies which handle street maintenance and problems
f. Books and publications, videos, web sites
g. Street classification
h. Traffic control questions
i. Glossary
j. Telephone number for more information
k. Neighborhood fund raising ideas
l. ETC.
7. The Neighborhood Design Process – how to start?
a. An individual or group will go to the Arden Arcade Community Planning Advisory Council (AACPAC) and request attention to their street. Individuals should have the support of their neighbors. Neighborhood groups should have the support of their steering committee or Board.
b. After approval by the AACPAC the CPAC will write up a request to their County Supervisor and ask the Planning Department for copies of the workbook. A Neighborhood Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Unit with appropriate staff from Public Works, Planning and RT will support the neighborhood’s design process. The staff LISTENS, helps sets priorities, helps neighborhoods organize, recommends improvements, tries to find money for them and ultimately builds the pedestrian-bicycle, transit supportive, traffic calming projects.
c. The CPAC will assign a member to follow the progress of the project.
d. Reports on progress will be made to the CPAC on a regular schedule.
Arden Arcade Area Coordinator- This person could be the staff for the Neighborhood Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Unit or public works will have a staff person to serve as an “Area Coordinator” assigned to coordinate all agencies involved on road projects and neighborhood design projects in the Arden Arcade area, provide information and make reports on projects to the CPAC and serve as the contact person for Arden Arcade residents and business owners.
A Pedestrian map will be developed and maintained that identifies appropriate streets for redesign, and pedestrian routes to key destinations. Arden Arcade has high traffic counts and pedestrian safety issues. Because of the old infrastructure with lack of adequate sidewalks, sidewalk gaps and lack of crosswalks, the survey work and GIS mapping required under the Pedestrian Master Plan will be done first in the Arden Arcade area. This is also necessary to help implement the pedestrian improvements above and more urgent interim measures described under the pedestrian oriented strategies.
Road Maintenance - County funds for maintenance of existing roads will be distributed to each community planning area based on existing population. A priority list will be established for maintenance projects in Arden Arcade as follows:
1. Safety problems
2. Safe schools and school neighborhood connectivity
3. Density of residential units and density of business development
4. Funds contributed from business or community towards enhancing the street.
Scheduling Procedure - Public Works will create a schedule of routine road maintenance projects (Neighborhood and Community Roads) and will publicize this to the neighborhoods and the community. If there is a neighborhood association, Neighborhood Watch program or other neighborhood or resident’s group they will be consulted prior to the road project so they can plan street enhancements to be included with the maintenance project. A negative declaration may be needed.[18] Safety features, such as public or private vision obstacles (bushes, signs, etc.), safe school features, pedestrian and bicycle facilities and bus amenities, such as covered benches and bus shelters, will be included with routine repaving projects.
safe routes to School
Introduction: Safe Routes to School is in its second year of existence resulting from the passage of AB 1475 in 1999. The goal is to use federal transportation funds for the construction of bicycle and pedestrian safety and traffic calming projects. The bill has been extended until 2005 from its initial two-year pilot program. caltrans is charged with making grants available to local governmental agencies.
Defining the problem: Both increasing traffic during a broader commute span plus increased localized traffic negatively impacts the ability of students to traverse the route from home to school safely. Pedestrians and particularly children are very vulnerable walking on the side of and crossing high-speed arterials and collector streets without the protection of sidewalks and crosswalks. The current solution for many parents is to drive their children to school, thereby adding to the increased congestion on the local roadways. Additionally, school bus options that existed in the past are no longer always a viable alternative or even in existence.
Goal: To provide both pedestrian walking routes and bicycle paths in order to allow students to more safely access their schools from home. Additionally, increased numbers on foot and bicycle will make it safer for everyone and will encourage others to change their modes to school.
Issues:
Defining solutions:
Additional benefits:
· Pedestrian improvements made will benefit all residents in the neighborhood of schools, especially seniors and the disabled.
· Families will possibly use more opportunities for walking together and staying healthier through pedestrian and bicycling opportunities.
· Eliminate many local vehicle trips including, but not limited to, driving children to school.
Sidewalk Installation Order of Need
Arden Middle School: South side of Arden Way (Eastern to Watt)
East side of Watt (Butano to Fair Oaks)
Arcade Middle School: South side of Edison (Eastern to Bell)
& East side of Watt (Auburn to Marconi)
Mira Loma High School: South side of Whitney (Garfield to Morse)
Howe Avenue School: South side of El Camino (Fulton to Ethan)
East side of Howe (Marconi to Cottage)
Greer School & Both sides of Hurley (Fulton to Howe)
Encina High School: Both sides of Bell (Arden to Northrop)
Eastern (Marconi to Arden)
Whitney School: South side of Whitney (Mission to Fulton)
West side of Eastern (Edison to Marconi)
Dyer Kelly School: South side of Edison (Cypress to Freeway 80)
Both sides of Bell (Freeway 80 to El Camino)
Winston Churchill Middle School: Whitney, Mission & Walnut
Trucks and freight
The recommendations of the Truck Task Force report should be implemented. [19]
Reduce the impact of trucks on Arden Arcade Roadways –
Truck Noise: Use of open-graded or rubberized asphalt surfaces will reduce noise of trucks and automobiles. Speed reduction to 35 mph will help control noise. No jake brake use.
City and County Garbage Trucks – Garbage trucks from outside Arden Arcade should use the freeway. City recycling centers in the Power Inn Road area should go on existing freight trains to Nevada sites when feasible. Research and enforce any commitment made during approval hearings by project proponents of the 3 recycling centers south of Folsom Boulevard regarding not using Watt Avenue for through traffic to Highway 80.
City and County jointly develop a more efficient and rational circulation pattern for Garbage and recycling trucks to reduce garbage and recycling through trucks on Watt - The County garbage goes to Longview, off Watt north of highway 80, then south on Watt to the County Landfill. City garbage goes south on Power Inn to recycling centers and then some goes north to Highway 80 to Nevada. Routes should be to the most direct site and coordinated between the City and County.
Truck Transfer Stations - Minimize impacts to arterials and residential neighborhoods by setting maximum truck size and weight for arterials and thoroughfares. Encourage the use of containerized cargo and the development of truck transfer stations in industrial areas so containers on large trucks can be transferred to smaller trucks for delivery within the urbanized area.
Clean Engine Permit – Address clean engine permit for the Sacramento Region. Require clean air permits to be prominently displayed on all trucks, which enter Arden Arcade and use Watt and Howe Avenue. Trucks should be required to meet clean diesel standards and sign up for financial assistance to retrofit engines with Air District. Monitor clean trucks using technology similar to that used for toll roads.
Transportation Demand Management Programs
Support new and existing businesses and their employees working with the Transportation Management Associations to promote Transportation Demand Management (TDM), Travel Demand Reduction Strategies region wide. Focus should be on programs, which provide incentives and encourage commuters to reduce driving and use alternative modes.
Transportation Management Associations - Encourage membership of existing and new businesses and neighborhood associations in the Point West TMA and create a new Country Club Transportation Management Associations (TMA).
Amend County code to require TMA for all employers of 50 or more employees, achievable goals (e.g., a 35 percent reduction in vehicle trips) adequate enforcement mechanisms and mandatory membership in a local TMA.
Travel Demand Reduction Strategies - Work with the Air District, the TMA, RT and employers to develop Transportation Demand Management programs that include, but are not limited to, the use of carpooling, flexible work hours, telecommuting, tele-work centers, Trading Places Program,[20] shared parking, parking strategy, shopping center joint home delivery for transit riders, Safeway’s home delivery and other programs.
Utilize the above Travel Demand Reduction Strategies and others in Arden Arcade and advocate their use for the region.
Implement Transit Oriented Special Planning Areas for commercial areas that encourage and provides incentives for transit supportive revitalization within a ¼ mile radius of express bus or bus rapid transit stations; as well as a pedestrian-friendly, mixed use, multi-modal environment along these streets. Suggested areas include:
El Camino at Watt Avenue; Marconi Avenue from the freeway to Fulton Avenue. El Camino Highway 80 to Fulton.
Workforce Destination Study – Ask SACOG to do Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping to show all labor classifications and work destination sites for employers located within Arden Arcade. Make this a pilot project to help people find employment in the area where they are living: an employer/employee community match.
Traffic growth on A-A streets should not exceed the % population growth of the A-A area.
Shift 19 to 25% of peak commuter traffic to transit, pedestrian and bicycle modes.
A safe, convenient, and efficient movement of people to and through the community using various forms of transportation with an emphasis on buses, BRT, LRT, walking and bicycles, and on minimizing the adverse impacts of automobiles and trucks on neighborhood and community roads.
Speed and Traffic impacts reduced:
Community brought together:
Benefits of Improved bus service and Bus Rapid Transit:
Merits of Walking: (in some cases applies also to transit and bicycling)
forms of travel, walking can be done by nearly anyone -- regardless of income or physical ability.
effective way to attain or maintain physical fitness.
motor vehicles for parking and driving.
there are reasonable numbers of pedestrians, buildings along the street
tends to be more detailed and interesting -- because it is only at the speed
of the pedestrian that such detailing can be seen and appreciated.
crime watch.
FUNDING SOURCES
Measure A funding renewed - Measure A renewal in 2008 or a new Measure B in 2004 should provide ½ cent sales tax for transit, pedestrian, bicycle and community design for existing communities. Focus of road projects should be on the large number of deferred maintenance projects for existing roads. Focus of transit funds should be for operation funds.
Below is a list of funding sources used for transit, pedestrian, bicycle, community design, road maintenance and road projects, which could be utilized for Solution Set I.
Existing Sources: Tea-21, Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality, (CMAQ), STP, TDA, Measure A sales tax (existing and new), Benefit Assessment Districts, County Service Area, Regional/State Surface Transportation Program, State Local Partnership Program, Welfare to Work, State Transit Assistance Fund, parking fees, Transit Capital Investment Program, Fare Box Revenue, Proposition 116, Safe Routes to Schools funds, State Matching funds, School, Park and other special district funding sources for cooperative projects, Sheriff and Highway Patrol funding sources, State Surface Transportation Program, C.S.U.S funding sources, Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Authority, Road Maintenance Funds, Federal Transit Administration- Section 5307, State Matching Funds, Federal Carryover funds, future programs and funds.
The County will monitor and keep in active contact with Caltrans’ Division of Mass Transportation and Division of Local Programs to seek funds for the various transit-oriented projects suggested in Solution Set One. It is important to develop a coordinated timeframe with Caltrans to take advantage of the available monies directed for Traffic Congestion Relief, the Bicycle Transit program, etc.
Study other potential sources:
Competitive Tendering for bus service, neighborhood and commercial shuttles and jitneys; Tolls for infrastructure and transit; Payroll taxes for transit; Bond to retrofit infrastructure repaid with tolls on existing bridges or with other funds; Neighborhood and community contributions to grants programs for individual projects; Sierra Foundation grants for transportation to health centers; Sacramento Regional Foundation grants; etc.
1) Relationship of Vehicle Speed to Probability of Fatal Injury Graph – Limpert, Rudolph
2) Vehicle Speed and Number of Accidents – Mick Hamer, www.newscientist.com
3) Vehicle Speed and Stopping Distance Graph – Institute of Transportation Engineers
4) Vehicle Speed and Road Capacity – Highway Capacity Manual
5 & 6) Vehicle Speed and Air Pollutant Emissions – California Air Resources Board
7) Vehicle Speed and Noise – Cowan, Environmental Acoustics
8) Width of Street and Vehicle Accidents – Swift & Associates
9) AB 2726
10) Rubberized Asphalt Concrete Technology Center - County of Sacramento
11) Knocking NOx – Cleaner Air Partnership
12) BRT “Scope of Work Statement” – Graham Carey, project engineer, Lane Transit District
13) Sacramento Regional ITS Architecture – Meyer, Mohaddes Associates, Inc.
14) Reports on ITS – Roger Levy
15) Dangerous By Design – Surface Transportation Policy Project
16) Where People Walk in Sacramento – Pedestrian Summit Strategic Plan, Walk Sacramento
17) Bus Rapid Transit Summary – SACTEN
18) Map – Watt Corridor Bus Service Enhancement
19) Transit Ridership Potential Table – DKS Associates
20) Get in Touch with SABA – Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates
21) Making Streets That Work – Seattle Transportation Neighborhood Services Division
22) Truck Task Force – Sacramento County DOT
23) Lindley, William, “When Should a City Build a Rail Transit System?” – Western Rail Passenger Review
24) Scigliano, Eric, “Trading Places” – Technology Review
http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/community/transformations/index.asp Examples of phased redesign of older streets for Livable Communities.
http://www.walksacramento.org – Walk Sacramento
http://www.americawalks.org - America Walks
http://www.sacbike.org - Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates (SABA)
http://www.calbike.org - California Bicycle Coalition
http://www.transact.org - Surface Transportation Policy Project
http://www.walkable.org - Walkable Communities (Dan Burden)
http://www.peds.org – PACE Car Program
http://www.cityofseattle.net/td/mstw.asp – Making Streets that Work
http://publictransportation.org – Nationwide Public Transportation
http://www.walkinginfo.org - Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/resources/links.asp#Transportation - Sierra Club Sprawl and Transportation Action
http://www.homezones.org - International Home Zones
http://www.bayareaalliance.org/index.html - Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development
http://www.urbanecology.org - Urban Ecology
http://www.transcoalition.org - Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition and Transportation Choices Forum
http://www.greenbelt.org - Greenbelt Alliance
http://www.abag.ca.gov/home2.html - Association of Bay Area Governments
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/ - Metropolitan Transportation Commission
http://www.baaqmd.gov - Bay Area Air Quality Management District
http://www.bcdc.ca.gov - Bay Conservation and Development Commission
http://www.smartgrowth.org/index2.html - Smart Growth Network in D.C.
http://www.sustainable.org - Sustainable Communities Network
http://www.planning.org - American Planning Association
http://www.cnu.org - Congress for the New Urbanism
http://www.icma.org - International City/County Management Association
http://www.usmayors.org/sustainable -Joint Center for Sustainable Communities
http://www.nationaltrust.org - National Trust for Historic Preservation
http://www.op.state.md.us/smartgrowth - State of Maryland’s Smart Growth Program
http://www.state.co.us/smartgrowth - State of Colorado’s Smart Growth Program
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/smartgrowth - City of Austin Smart Growth Initiative
http://www.metrokc.gov/smartgrowth - King County WA Smart Growth Initiative
http://www.me3.org/sprawl - Minneapolis/St. Paul Smart Growth scenario
http://www.pcei.org/trans/smartgrowth.html - Idaho Smart Growth Project
http://www.ncsmartgrowth.org - North Carolina Smart Growth Alliance
http://www.metroforum.org/articles/tpr_san_diego.html - San Diego Smart Growth Report
http://www.friends.org - 1000 Friends of Oregon
http://www.metro-region.org - Portland OR Metro Council
http://www.lgc.org - Local Government Commission
http://www.nrdc.org - Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.smartsites.org/default.htm - Research Triangle Institute Smart Sites Program
http://www.uli.org - Urban Land Institute
http://www.rppi.org/ps263central.html - Reason Public Policy Institute
http://www.transact.org/ca - Surface Transportation Policy Project, California Office
http://www.greeninfo.org/index.html - Green Info Network
http://www.terraserver.com - great web site for aerial/satellite photo
A website is being constructed to include all the Transportation Team’s solution sets.
[1] Sacramento County General Plan, Circulation Element: Section I Statement of Intent, page 1, 12/06/93
[2] Commentary by William Lindley, ARPA Past President, March 2002, Attachment 23.
[3] Sacramento General Plan, Ibid.
[4] Relationship of vehicle speed and probability of fatal injury to pedestrians- Attachment 1; Vehicle speed and the number of accidents- Attachment 2; Vehicle speed and stopping distance- Attachment 3; Vehicle speed and road capacity- Attachment 4; Vehicle speed and air pollutant emissions- Attachments 5 & 6; Vehicle speed and noise- Attachment 7; Width of street and vehicle accidents- Attachment 8; AB 2767- Attachment 9 AB 2767, signed into law in 2000, can be used as a tool for reducing and enforcing speed limits since it provides for density plus pedestrian and bicycle safety to be used as criteria in speed surveys performed by local jurisdictions; Vehicle speed and fuel economy; The barrier effect- If people, especially seniors, are surrounded by high speed arterials they may become fearful of going outside their immediate area.
[5] Attachment 10 Rubberized Asphalt Concrete Technology Center.
[6] See attachment 11
[7] See Attachment 12,”Scope of Work,” prepared by Graham Carey, project engineer, Lane Transit District.
[8] Meyer, Mohaddes Associates, Inc, Executive Summary Sacramento Regional ITS Architecture for SACOG, July 2001, page ES-7. See attachment 13.
[9] Roger Levy, Analysis of ITS reports. See attachment 14.
[10] Attachment #15 “Dangerous By Design,” and #16 “Where People Walk in Sacramento.”
[11] See Sacramento Regional Transit 2025 Transportation Vision, February 25, 2002.
[12] Kaiser facilities are at Point West, Morse Avenue, Arden Way and Fair Oaks Blvd. All medical centers: Professional Drive (off Arden Way) and Scripps Drive (off American River Drive), Mercy San Juan and others.
[13] See Safe Routes to Schools, page 28.
[14] Scope of Work prepared by Graham Carey, BRT Project Director Lane Transit District, Oregon. See attachment 12, already cited.
See attachment SACTEN #17. See attachment #18, RT Map of Watt Corridor BRT; Attachment #19 DKS chart on potential Transit Ridership.
[15] This would be in conformity with the American River Parkway Plan and connect the Rancho Cordova Community to Arden Arcade/Carmichael at Arden Way.
[16] Attachment #20, “Get in Touch with SABA.”
[17] See attachment #21, “Making Streets That Work.”
[18] Check with County Department of Environmental Review and Assessment.
[19] See attachment #22.
[20] See attachment 24. .