The Sacramento City Council has adopted 700 transportation plans that it has been “unable to build” due to budget constraints. | Victoria Ditkovsky / Shutterstock
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.”…