SABA's Advocacy Resources

• Our mission statement
• Our list of accomplishments to date
• View SABA's Advocacy Letters
• Join our email mailing list
• E-mail your council member
• E-mail your county supervisor
• 28 reaons to ride a bike

•Best Practices for Complete Streets, Oct 2005, Sacramento Transportation and Air Quality Collaborative

•Complete the Streets, Web site of the Complete Streets Coalition

• City of Sacramento Pedestrian Friendly Street Standards

• Research that supports Complete Streets

     The Built Environment: Designing Communities to Promote Physical Activity in Children

     Key to safer roads is identified in California study

     Residential Street Typology and Injury Accident Frequency

     Relationship of Lane Width to Safety for Urban and Suburban Arterials

     Neighborhood Street Design Guidelines

 

SABA Issues and Interests

(What we want and why)

• Bollards (posts)

• Parking

• River and freeway crossings

• Signage for trails

• Traffic calming

• Trail rules

• Trails and water projects

• American River Parkway and Sacramento River policies

Bicycle-related signage

Best practices in pedestrian and bicycle wayfinding in the Washington region

Vancouver Island: Walking trail System

Richard Mouer's signs for bicycle facilities

Richard Mouer's recreational and cultural interest signs

John Luton's gallery of signs

Darrell Wick's gallery of Swiss bike/ped signs

Proposed amendment to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).  Go to Part 9 Bicycle Facilities slide show.

Calfornia Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) Part 9

SACOG Ad hoc committee trail signage guidelines Sep 2009

 

Bicycle Friendly Community

Going for the Gold

SABA proposed 10 step plan.  Initial draft plan for steps that the city of Sacramento could take to achieve League of American Bicyclists' Bicycle Friendly Community Gold award

• “Write to Congress” Messages Available on the League of American Bicyclists Website
• Seamless Travel Final Report
• Seamless Travel Final Report Executive Summary
• Gold River fears hordes of invading bicyclists Check out SABA's Bee article in response and its letter to officials.  (1/24/08)0
• Los Rios Transportation Connections Pedestrian and bicycle access to Los Rios Community Colleges (2/20/08)
• Using Reclamation Land for Alternative Transportation and Recreation (2007) PowerPoint presentation
• State Bicycle Facilities - Proposed Solutions
• Central City Parking (11/22/06)
• Safe Routes to Transit final report -- Bicycle access to Sacramento light rail stations.  Caution: 14MB file.  (9/12/06)
• Pedestrians (and cyclists) Inhale Less Pollution Than Passengers (1/18/06)
• SABA's bike project suggestions to SACOG
  Have a suggestion? Bike Project Submittal Form
• SABA - WalkSacramento Presentation [large powerpoint file]
• U.S. Obesity Trends 1985 to 2006
• Highway 50 Bicycle Demonstration Project
  • List of Hwy 50 Demo Projects [Adobe Acrobat PDF document]
• Sacramento County CMAQ Projects [Adobe Acrobat PDF]
• Bicycle Fact Sheet
• SABA's Bicycle Utopia
• 2010 Sacramento City/County Bikeway Master Plan -- summary
• 2010 Sacramento City/County Bikeway Master Plan -- the whole thing
• Get involved with Sacramento County's Bicycle Master Plan update  (click "Enter as Guest" on the left)  (1/5/08)
• Environmental Council of Sacramento Transportation Policy
• Sacramento Bicycle Advisory Committee (SacBAC)
• Transportation’s Role in Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Road Transportation Emerges as Key Driver of Warming
• Crashes vs. Congestion - What's the cost to society? -- AAA study shows crash costs are $164 billion annually and are higher than congestion costs.
• Walking, Cycling, and Obesity Rates in Europe, North America, and Australia - Countries in Europe, North America, and Australia where active travel is most common have the lowest obesity rates. Countries with the highest rates of car use for travel have the highest obesity rates.

• Description of Transportation Enhancements, part of the Transportation Equity Act For the 21st Century (TEA-21) Phase I
• Summary of Final Recommended Allocations for Sacramento County TEA-21, Phase 2
• Surface Transportation Program Description, part of TEA-21
• Summary of Past Funding of ISTEA, TEA-21, STIP, and GTIP Allocations in Sacramento County, 1990-2000
• Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality Program (CMAQ)
• Measure A Renewal Ordinance