Active Transportation

The City of Sacramento is working to be a more bikeable and walkable city and to improve safety, enhance quality of life, be more equitable and address climate change.

Walking

The walking environment typically includes sidewalks, shared use paths and crosswalks.

New sidewalks are typically built with new development projects or with a grant funded corridor improvement project. Because the vast majority of transportation funding is from competitive grants, building new sidewalks outside of these to ways is very difficult.

Maintenance of existing sidewalks is the responsibility of the adjacent property owner, not the City of Sacramento.

Shared use paths are paved pathways that are shared by people walking, scooting, rollerblading, roller skating and bicycling. These are off street and are typically build through new development projects or through a competitive grant program.

To learn more about marked crosswalks in Sacramento, you can review:

In 2006, the City completed a pedestrian master plan; however we are currently updating it through the Streets for People: Sacramento’s active transportation plan.

Bicycling and scooting

The bicycling and scooting environment typically includes bikeways and shared use paths.

New bikeways are built based on the bicycle master plan, typically through funding from a competitive grant program or sometimes through a large development project. We are currently updating the Bicycle Master Plan through the Streets for People: Sacramento’s active transportation plan.

Existing bikeways are shown on our bikeway user map that the City prints and makes available to our communities. Bikeways are maintained in a number of different ways. The streets maintenance teams sweep and repair shared use paths. The Recycling and Solid Waste teams sweep the city’s gutters that could include a bikeway. This sweeping schedule is available here. This team also sweeps the on-street separated bikeways with a mini-sweeper.

Bike parking is provided through new development projects and by the City with a small amount of local funding. There are over 7,000 short-term publicly available bike parking spaces in the city. You can find them here.

The City also has electronic bike lockers (eLockers) and a bike SPA (Secure Parking Area) at the Sacramento Valley Train Station. To use the eLocker (costing 5 cents an hour), you must purchase and activate a BikeLink card in advance for $20. Cards are available online and at the ticket counter at the station. Follow this link to learn about the SPA.

Bike parking design is based on City Council’s adopted bike rack design and placement standards.

Request bike parking! Do you have a need for bike parking? We may be able to help. Learn more here!

Current projects

Current active transportation projects may be in a planning phase and can be found here; or they may be in an engineering (preliminary design & environmental review or final design & construction) and can be found here.

Report a concern

Have a transportation safety issue you’d like to share? Report a concern

Active transportation commission

The Active Transportation Commission meets monthly and all meetings are held in Council Chambers and broadcast live on the internet!

Watch liveClerk meetings and agendas

Watch previous meetings
: previous meetings  videos

Upcoming agendas are posted here (they are posted at least 72 hours in advance of the meeting).

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