After presenting the Active Transportation Commission’s annual report to the P&PE Committee, councilmembers recommended the report go the Budget Committee for consideration to be included in the City of Sacramento’s budget. We were last on a packed agenda and butting up against a required closed session – so I skipped lines in my speech and talked really fast.
Final result: this report should now go to the entire City Council within the next couple of months. This is the closest ATC has ever gotten to having any of our recommendations funded. And yet … there is NO chance active transportation will get even the smallest slice of the pie due to a significant budget deficit. More cyclists and pedestrians are killed each year than are murdered. 30% of the budget goes to the police department and 0% is allocated to make our streets safer. Frustrating.
arletelouise 