Safe Routes for All, a coalition of individuals and organizations convened by WALKSacramento, asks SACOG to create and analyze a vision of a complete network of bicycle and pedestrian routes throughout the region as part of the MTP update. We estimate that with $5 billion we could build safe routes to schools and transit, needed freeway and river crossings, and a system of bikeways and complete streets that are safe and accessible to everyone throughout the region. And we could do it all in 12 years. Consider what this would mean for kids, for the elderly, for families and for neighborhoods.
This is achievable, but we need your support.
If you or your organization would like to join Safe Routes for All or would like more information please email Anne Geraghty: ageraghty(at)walksacramento.org
WALKSacramento, Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates, Breathe California of Sacramento-Emigrant Trails, Sacramento Walking Sticks, Coalition on Regional Equity, Ubuntu Green, Environmental Council of Sacramento, Safe Kids Greater Sacramento, and Gray Panthers of Sacramento.
This is a great idea! How can we help support you with this?
Jessica Meaney
California Policy Manager
Safe Routes to School National Partnership
jessica@saferoutespartnership.org
We need this type of inititative in more California communities!!! Sadly, California remains the leader in pedestrian and bicycle accidents causing injury or death. As more and more people trade in their cars for bikes, etc., I can only imagine this trend will continue.
If walksacramento.org would like for a journalist at our accident news site to write a blog for your site to help promote awareness, we’d be happy to do so.
Something else we have noticed in our reporting is that “texting while driving” has quickly become one of the most dangerous driver distractions on the road, resulting in many deaths to drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists. PLEASE DO NOT TEXT WHILE DRIVING!
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