On my way to City Hall.
Officially I am now past-Chair Hodel. My final responsibility was to present the 2025 annual report from the Active Transportation Commission to the Personnel and Public Employees Committee. The preliminary step before it goes first to the budget committee and finally to City Council.
The final meeting of the year for the Active Transportation Commission.
We approved the 2025 Annual Report which required a group picture for the slide deck that will be part of the presentation to the City Council.
Active Transportation Commission. Sitting tall in the mayor’s chair for Thursday’s meeting – lol. He’s a tall man.
Thursday evening at City Hall.
On Wednesday evening. About thirty people met in front of City Hall.
Jennifer Donlon Wyant and Jeff Jelsma:
Stop #1 to view new bicycle infrastructure:
Stop #2 on Broadway:
The ride ended at Urban Roots and where the after-party began. Too crowded and noisy for me.
Active Transportation Commission meeting tonight.
At the Budget and Audit Committee, the 2024 Annual Report from the Active Transportation Committee was up for consideration in the upcoming budget. Fingers crossed, a new TAG (Tactical Action Group) will be formed to immediately investigate bicycle and pedestrian deaths and injuries to see if a quick-build fix is possible. More people die in bike or ped collisions than by homicide in Sacramento County. We are pushing the City to address this problem. Mellissa Meng from Jibe spoke in support of this proposal along with many others.
And, after that meeting, I went to a SABA staff meeting a couple of blocks away.
Tuesday: a special meeting of the City Council to vote on the design to pursue for the Truxel Bridge. By a 3 to 2 margin, active transportation supporters wrote e-comments and spoke in person encouraging Councilmembers to vote No vote. Many residents north of the river (South and North Natomas) want and have been asking for a no-car design to be considered.
Thursday: Active Transportation Commission.
Thursday evening in Historic Old City Hall. The room would end up being quite well-attended. The media was setting up in the corner re agenda item 5: Alternative recommendation: Truxel Bridge Concept and Feasibility Study. There were 32 comments posted on the website and 16 people appeared in person, each of them spoke for 2 minutes or less. Everyone was in favor of a bridge design which does not allow private motor vehicles.
We voted unanimously to reject the current designs and instead recommended “that the City Council direct staff to evaluate and study a Truxel Bridge alternative without personal motor vehicles.” And, I was re-elected to be Chair of ATC for a second, and final, one-year term.
Also of note, on the screen in the picture is a CalTrans project under construction. Due to a lawsuit CalTrans has been forced to add a separated bicycle/pedestrian over the American River in addition to replacing the decking on this 8-lane roadway known as the Capital City Freeway.
Tuesday: Personnel and Public Employees Committee. Five City of Sacramento commissions presented their 2024 annual reports. As Chair of the Active Transportation Commission, I presented our report.
Thursday: County of Sacramento Bicycle Advisory Committee aka SacBAC. I’ve been on this committee for two years and was surprised to learn I’m actually third in seniority of the seven members. This meant I was in line to be Vice Chair and was elected to do that.
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