Tag: Fruitridge-Rd

Fruitridge Road community workshop April 23

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The City of Sacramento is holding a community workshop on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 on the Fruitridge Road Improvement Project. The in-person location will be Earl Warren Elementary School, 5420 Lowell Street, Sacramento, from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM. There are not online options at this time for this phase of the project.

From the city email:

After the workshop held in August 2023 at Earl Warren Elementary School, the Fruitridge Road Improvements team has been updating the design plans based on community feedback while considering enhancements between Stockton Boulevard and the 65th Street Expressway.

  • Phase 1 runs from the 65th Street Expressway to Power Inn Road
  • Phase 2 runs from Stockton Boulevard to the 65th Street Expressway

About Project: The City of Sacramento is upgrading Fruitridge Road between 65th Street and Power Inn Road to enhance safety for all travelers. The project will add continuous bike lanes, fix pavement, upgrade signals, and create ADA-compliant curb ramps. Due to space limitations on the current four-lane road with intermittent bike lanes, the team is considering lane reductions to better accommodate bicyclists, improve pedestrian crossings, and enhance transit access while connecting to existing and future bikeways.

The city webpage is Fruitridge Road Improvement Project. There do not seem to be any documents available at this time.

Freeport roundabout(s)

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Another post on the Freeport Blvd Transportation Plan. See the category Freeport Blvd for other posts.

The city has proposed a roundabout for the intersection of Freeport Blvd and Sutterville Rd E. This is a good location for a roundabout, in part because there is so much space here already that a roundabout would not encroach on other uses.

Notes: I am calling the section of Sutterville Rd to the east of Freeport ‘Sutterville Rd E’ and the section to the west of Freeport ‘Sutterville Rd W’, but these names do not reflect street addresses, since this is all East Sutterville Rd. This post introduces the idea of protected intersections along Freeport, which apparently were not considered by the city in their planning process. For more information on this design, see protected intersections and Davis protected intersection.

First, what it looks like today. As you can see, there is a huge area of wasted space in the intersection

Freeport - Sutterville E intersection existing
Freeport – Sutterville E intersection

Second, the roundabout proposed in the plan.

Freeport - Sutterville E roundabout proposed
Freeport – Sutterville E roundabout proposed, north is to the right
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Freeport & Fruitridge intersection

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Another post on the Freeport Blvd Transportation Plan. See the category Freeport Blvd for others.

The plan states, page Appendix A-9, “Fruitridge Road: The left turn from Freeport Boulevard to Fruitridge Road includes two left turn lanes, which may not be needed given the turn volumes. U-turns are moderately used at this location.” Despite this statement, the plan for this intersection is to leave it essentially unchanged. The diagram from Appendix F Design Layout is below.

Freeport - Fruitridge intersection design
Freeport Blvd Transportation Plan, Freeport-Fruitridge intersection design

The same seven lanes across for the north side of the intersection (to the right in the diagram), 86 feet for a person using the crosswalk, with no pedestrian refuge in the middle. Long crosswalks like this require a long pedestrian signal to meet federal standards, which of course slows all other movements in the intersection. In an effort to ease motor vehicle traffic by maintaining unneeded lanes, the city is actually slowing down everyone at the intersection, and making traffic worse rather than better.

The same dedicated double left turn lanes southbound (from the left). The same dedicated right turn lanes which require right turning traffic to conflict with the bike lane as they merge (out of the diagram left and right). The same free-right, high-speed slip lane from Fruitridge westbound to Freeport northbound which presents a tremendous hazard to walkers, bicyclists, and drivers traveling on Freeport.

Again, the city has released a final draft plan which fails to meet the needs of the community, fails to calm traffic, and fails to keep people (walking, bicycling, and driving) safe.