Sacramento’s City Council approved a preliminary plan Tuesday to overhaul Broadway in Oak Park, one of the city’s most dangerous corridors.
“These complete streets projects literally change lives and save lives,” Councilmember Caity Maple, who represents Oak Park, said at Tuesday’s meeting. “I’m so excited that we’re taking our next step.”
Under the plan, lanes will be removed on Broadway between Martin Luther King Jr. and Stockton boulevards, narrowing the road to two general travel lanes and a center lane. With the lanes eliminated, the space that’s freed up will be turned into continuous bike lanes, mirroring safety improvements that have already been made on Broadway west of Freeport Boulevard. Between MLK and Stockton, the city intends to install plastic posts to buffer the new bike lanes from vehicles…