Author: Troy Sankey
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Tabling at Sustainable Transportation Fair
Do you commute downtown? Learn practical, easy ways to make your commute affordable, less stressful, and more enjoyable at the Sustainable Transportation Fair!
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September Monthly Meeting
For our September Monthly Meeting, representatives from the City of Rancho Cordova will speak about their Lincoln Village Asphalt Art Pilot Project, a creative blend of traffic calming, creative placemaking, community art, and tactical urbanism!
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Parking Benefit Districts
Paid parking can solve congestion and fund neighborhood improvements. When revenue stays local and benefits are visible, paid parking can also be politically popular.
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Bulk Controls
“Bulk controls” are an important type of planning and zoning regulation. But these regulations can go too far when they restrict or even ban some of our most cost-effective housing types.
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Modal Filters
Traffic violence was not a defining issue of Sacramento until cars entered the equation. Modal filters hold the key to re-defining the purpose of neighborhood streets by eliminating through-traffic, supporting local businesses, reversing the suburban experiment, and saving lives.
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How to make freeway before/after animations
Technical instructions for creating a freeway before/after animation for any city
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Suburbs Drive Sacramento Into Debt
We found that suburbs are a money pit and help drive Sacramento into debt. Meanwhile, zoning reform is in the air…
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Leckdowns: Nature’s Tracing Paper
Every fall season, leaves blanket the street, and cars cut paths through them. The remaining patches of leaves effectively âneck downâ the street and represent areas that cars do not fully utilize.
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Sacramentoâs Dangerous One-Way Streets
One-way streets in Sacramento’s central city are loud, harmful, dangerous, unproductive, and prop up the Suburban Experiment.
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Transit Oriented Development in Sacramento: Part 3
See our Instagram post here! The draft 2040 general plan contains Sacramento’s current state-of-the-art in urban planning and transit-oriented development guidelines. More ambitious than any past general plan, this new plan gives me hope that we can recover long-forgotten methods of building sustainable, walkable, and strong communities which leverage transit as a wealth multiplier. The…