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Introduced Draft (January 29, 2015)
Resolution by the Sacramento City-County Bicycle Advisory
Committee
Date:
To: Sacramento Department of Public Works
CC: Sacramento City Council Members
Subject: Sacramento Bicycle Master Plan (BMP)
The Sacramento City-County Bicycle Advisory Committee (SacBAC)
understands that:
1. The 2035 General Plan states that Sacramentos Vision is to be
the most livable city in America
where (among other characteristics):
Every neighborhood will be a desirable place to live because of
its walkable streets, . . . ,
and easy access to Downtown and jobs and
Sacramento will continue to celebrate its cultural and ethnic
diversity and ensure the
equitable treatment of all neighborhoods and groups.
2. Sacramentos Climate Action Plan commits the City to
substantially increase its bicycling mode
share to help reduce vehicle miles traveled and climate
change.
3. The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) predicts
that increases in bicycling
mode share will be greatest in disadvantaged (Environmental
Justice)communities because
they have the greatest dependencies on bicycling as a mode of
transportation. These are
communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple
sources of pollution.1
4. City and County vehicle collision data (presented to SacBAC)
show that some of the highest
rates of bicyclist fatalities and injuries are in environmental
justice or, low-income communities.
5. Funding from SACOG and Caltrans Active Transportation Program
is targeted to improving
transportation facilities in these areas.
6. A robust and successful City-wide master planning effort must
start with community
involvement and public input from our neighborhoods.
7. A BMP process provides the City with an opportunity to
develop and implement a vision for the
future of bicycle transportation over the next several
decades.
Therefore, SacBAC believes that the City should update its BMP
in accord with the followingprinciples:
1. The BMP process should start with community engagement and
public input from the Citys
neighborhoods about how to make bicycling more safe, attractive,
and convenient for all
residents.
1For more information, see CalEPA, Office of the Undersecretary
for Environmental Justice,
http://www.calepa.ca.gov/EnvJustice/#sthash.9k4bYwUH.dpuf
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2. The BMP process should then use the public and stakeholder
input to develop a set of goals and
objectives that will be the foundation and direction of the BMPs
analysis, policy
recommendations, and implementation actions.
3. The BMP should have a specific goal of equity in bicycling
investment; one that aims to build
sustainability in all the Citys neighborhoods and celebrates the
diverse uses and users of
bicycles. To pursue its equity goal, the BMP should include an
analysis of demographic andsocioeconomic patterns as they relate to
bicycle facilities and injury data (other cities have called
this an equity analysis). The City of Sacramento should follow
the example of Seattle, whose
BMP included an equity analysis to guide its bicycling
infrastructure and programming
investment.2This analysis should be used to prioritize new
facilities investment as well as
programming and enforcement efforts.
4. The BMP should incorporate and use the inventory and analysis
efforts that have been done to
date by City staff.
We, the following SacBAC members, request that City staff ensure
the BMP is updated in accord with
these principles.
Signed by SacBAC members:
Name Printed Name E-mail address
2Seattle Bicycle Master Plan, Chap. 2, p. 18
http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/docs/bmp/apr14/SBMP_21March_ch%202%20state%20of%20seattle.pdf
