Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Sacramento

Sacramento Adopts a Complete Streets Policy

By Melanie Curry | Dec 13, 2019 | No Comments

Sacramento's Complete Streets policy aims to be a model for other California cities to emulate - especially since Caltrans keeps opposing one for itself.

One of Sacramento's poorest neighborhoods doesn't have enough crosswalks. It also has a high rate of jaywalking arrests. Image: KXTV

What Will It Take for Sacramento to Make Walking Safer in Poor Neighborhoods?

By Stephen Miller | Apr 27, 2017 | 7 Comments

Police and city planners in Sacramento have come under scrutiny in the weeks since police were caught on tape assaulting Nandi Cain, Jr., a black man, during a jaywalking stop. Cain, who was legally using an unmarked crosswalk, has since filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city. Now, reporters are looking into why there are so few marked crosswalks in one of Sacramento's poorest areas.

Parking Madness 2017 Tip-Off: St. Louis vs. Sacramento

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 17, 2017 | 9 Comments

Welcome to the first match in the first round of Streetsblog's 2017 Parking Madness tournament, our 16-city bracket highlighting the worst "parking craters" in North America. This year, we're focusing on a specific type of parking disaster: transit stations engulfed by car storage.