The City of Sacramento has scheduled a webinar on the Draft Criteria and Guidance to Accommodate Active Transportation in Work Zones and at Events, or work zone policy, for Wednesday, January 24, 6:00-7:00PM. Registration for the Zoom session is available at https://cityofsacramento-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrcOqtrj0pH91Si2dEU-2R-fdFh_bMU-FT#/registration.

More information is available on the Work Zone and Event Detour Policy Update page.

I attended the Work Zone and Event Detour Policy Roundtable on January 9, with city staff and various stakeholders. All present agreed that current practice was unacceptable. Two companies that provide construction signing for projects talked about the challenges, including signs and barricades being placed and then moved by the public. I pointed to the two most important issues not addressed in the draft policy: 1) the policy must be explicit about requirements in PROWAG, and 2) the policy is meaningless if there is no monitoring. A number of people had anecdotes about projects that failed to offer accommodation for walkers and bicyclists, in addition to the hundreds of 311 reports that I have filed.

Posts related to the work zone guidelines are linked via category ‘Work Zones‘ within City of Sacramento category. Posts about construction project issues, previous to and after the release of the draft guidelines, of which there are a huge number, are linked via tag ‘construction zone‘ within Active Transportation category.