ECOS 50-year Transportation Vision

ECOS has unveiled a 50-Year Transportation Vision for the Sacramento region. This Vision is complete with a transit network map, capital projects, and innovative transit, land-use and traffic demand management policies.

The Vision includes a transit/bike/pedestrian-only bridge at Arden Way and Truxel; underground rapid transit access to downtown and the multi-modal Amtrak station; transit guideways on major corridors throughout the region; and an extensive network of neighborhood shuttles.  The ECOS Vision presents a future for Sacramento with lower levels of air pollution and congestion and communities and neighborhoods that are livable, sustainable and safe. For more information

Flooding Reality Check

When it comes to flooding, the Sacramento region needs a reality check. 

Let’s face facts.  While there has been some recent progress in acknowledging the severity of the risk faced by the Sacramento region, there has been almost no recognition among elected officials that minimizing the risk will require major policy and land use changes — in existing neighborhoods and undeveloped areas.  Many of Sacramento’s most flood-prone neighborhoods, such as The Pocket and other areas south of Downtown as well as most of the southern portion of the Natomas Basin, are already developed.  Given the numerous challenges we face in minimizing the risk faced by existing neighborhoods, how can we even consider putting more people in harms way in undeveloped parts of the Natomas Basin? For more information

Further Development in Natomas:

• The habitat mitigation program for development already completed in Natomas will fail and the preserves already set up will be significantly degraded. Our wildlife resource in the Sacramento area will be seriously depleted. The Federal and State wildlife agencies have already expressed very strong concerns which City and County have ignored. For more information.