Category: Blog
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Local Street Typology
Local Streets are where motor vehicles are guests, safety for people outside of cars is prioritized, and economic and social vibrancy are promoted.
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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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Street Typologies Overview
To fulfill the city’s Streets for People goal and the 2040 General Plan, streets must be designed and redesigned in a way that sets a different vision for the purpose of streets.
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Lane Widths
Over 80% of the fatalities and serious injuries on Sacramento roadways happen on streets signed between 30 and 45 mph. Taking a serious approach to Vision Zero will mean addressing these higher-speed, higher-volume roads. Managing street lane widths is one important tool in the toolbox of street (re)design.
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The Importance of Street Design
What is the purpose of the public right of way? In what ways can we transform our communities by redesigning our streets?
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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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Streets for People – Street Design Standards
We are Strong SacTown — Streets for People Design Group, a group of Sacramentans advocating for updated street designs that will rank safety, livability, and economic vitality above vehicle throughput or speed; where congestion relief will not be the goal in street design.
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Escaping the Housing Trap
We were promised pristine neighborhoods if we moved out to the suburbs, but so many of the aged suburban neighborhoods are suffering from abandoned litter lots, cracks in the sidewalk, and are in general disrepair. How do we fight to make it better?
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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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The Cost of Road Maintenance
Have you ever wondered why our streets and roads are in such a bad state? And what’s the true cost of maintaining our roads? Based on the city’s Pavement Condition Report, we can’t continue business as usually and expect any positive changes.