Neighborhood Connections

The City of Sacramento’s Neighborhood Connections plan will provide a framework for building and maintaining a comfortable and accessible active transportation network for all people regardless of their age or ability. Beyond comfort and connectivity, the transportation system plays a large role in the physical, mental, and social health of our residents. With this plan, we hope to ensure that people in Sacramento have a convenient and comfortable way to access essential destinations via walking or biking in their neighborhoods, whether that’s to a grocery store, a school, a job, a park, or a library and whether they’re new to biking, only walk occasionally, or bike and walk everyday. To dive into the details behind the analyses outlined in this storymap visit  here  to read the Neighborhood Connections Existing Conditions report.

Why Neighborhood Connections

 The City of Sacramento is working to redesign its streets to better connect people who work, live and travel here to places they want to go and people they want to see. Through the Streets for People effort we are identifying a transportation network made up of convenient and comfortable connections for people walking and bicycling within their neighborhoods or between communities.

The  Active Transportation network will identify routes that serve longer distance (regional or inter-community) trips and will typically be located on major streets. To learn more about this ongoing effort visit the  Streets for People project page .

At the same time, we are developing a network of Neighborhood Connections. These routes will include enhancements to slow traffic on local streets and minor collectors to connect people to schools, grocery stores, parks, and other everyday neighborhood destinations they want to go to.

Who are we planning for?

The Sacramento Neighborhood Connections Plan is a plan to create streets that are comfortable to walk, bike, and roll on for people of all ages and abilities, whether they are eight or eighty. In practice, this might mean identifying and installing treatments on streets to slow or limit vehicle traffic, provide separate space for walking and biking, or increasing shade or lighting.


Traffic Calming

Once the Neighborhood Connections network is finalized (keep scrolling or click HERE to provide input on the draft network), we will consider what treatments are recommended to make the streets comfortable for people walking and biking. In some cases, streets may already be comfortable, but in most places a combination of additional treatments will need to be added to calm traffic and make crossings comfortable.

Traffic calming isn’t new to Sacramento. Many of the treatments considered have been implemented on neighborhood streets. The Neighborhood Connections Traffic Calming Toolbox will build on the work the City has already done by taking a proactive approach to determine where additional traffic calming is needed and to combine different treatments to create comfortable streets.

The following treatments are being considered on the Neighborhood Connections network, and therefore are only being considered on local and some minor collector streets. Please scroll right on the photos below for an overview of each potential treatment.


Share Your Feedback

View the draft Neighborhood Connections network  here  and let us know what you think. While you review, please consider the following questions:

  • Do these connections get you where you want to go?
  • Are there streets included in the network that you find difficult to use for walking or biking today?
  • Are there key street missing from the Neighborhood Connections network?