For decades, Franklin Boulevard’s four traffic lanes carried motorists past restaurants, auto shops and other businesses in the North City Farms section of south Sacramento.
Now, a roughly 1.2-mile stretch looks — and functions — much differently.
After more than a year of construction, Sacramento has largely completed a roughly $20 million overhaul of Franklin Boulevard between Sutterville Road and 32nd Avenue, replacing two through lanes with protected bike lanes, wider sidewalks, new streetlights, trees and signals for a pedestrian crossings…