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The area around Fruitridge Road and Stockton Boulevard is one of the city’s most dangerous areas for pedestrians, claiming two more lives this past winter. At a community safety meeting in March, Councilmember McCarty tasked WALKSacramento with identifying the locations of most significant concern to pedestrians. On June 26, WALKSacramento, the Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates […]

On the evening of Thursday, May 31, WALKSacramento led a community walk on Mack Road and Center Parkway with the South Sacramento Christian Center Nightwalk team to review challenges to safe walking and bicycling along and across both streets. The walk was part of the HEAL Zone program for community health funded by Kaiser Permanente

WALKSacramento Executive Director Teri Duarte was recently interviewed for a story on the walkability movement for Inside the City. “It’s a cultural change that started to take shape about a decade ago,” says Teri Durate, executive director of WALKSacramento. “We now have good new standards in  place compared to the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, and our

Walkable, livable communities need good public transportation, and while Sacramento has a good light rail system in place, it’s underutilized. Part of the problem is that there aren’t enough houses, jobs, stores, and other things that people need for daily life in the areas around the light rail stations. That’s why the County of Sacramento,

WALKSacramento staff and our board president had the pleasure of attending the second Pedestrians Count! Conference in Los Angeles last week. I wish I could have gone to all the sessions! There were so many great presentations, discussions, and inspirations packed into the two-day event that it is hard to pick just a few to