Complete Streets project will bring pedestrian, bike improvements to Broadway
Sacramento (Aug. 1, 2023) The portion of Broadway just south of downtown will undergo a dramatic transformation in the coming months with new bike lanes, pedestrian crossings and other improvements designed to create a more welcoming, walkable neighborhood.
The City of Sacramento will break ground on Aug. 16 for Broadway Complete Streets, a $15.7-million project that will remake the thoroughfare from Third to 24th streets. Vehicle traffic lanes will be reduced from two lanes in each direction to one (plus a turning lane) to accommodate new protected bike lanes. Seven new pedestrian crossings with flashing lights will be added.
“Our whole goal is to change Broadway from being a commuter corridor to being an entertainment-friendly corridor that serves bicycle, pedestrian, and transit users as well as automobiles,” said Philip Vuilliet, the City’s senior engineer in charge to the project.
The transformation of Broadway’s physical layout coincides with a number of other significant improvements coming to the Broadway Corridor, which has struggled to recover from the pandemic and where business owners say they have felt severe impacts from nearby homeless encampments.
A formerly vacant building at 19th and Broadway has been demolished over the past two weeks and will be replaced with 140 units of affordable housing and a ground-floor retail space financed in part with funding from the City of Sacramento.
On the business front, Broadway is getting a significant new addition as the Kitchen, Sacramento’s first Michelin-starred restaurant, moves to 915 Broadway from Arden Arcade. And to the east, California Northsate University is working through the city permitting process to build a major dental school at the site of a former office complex at 22nd and Broadway.
The Sunday farmers’ market is also drawing thousands of customers to the Broadway Corridor on Sundays once again since CalTrans completed construction and allowed the market to return to its location under the W/X freeway.
Learn more about Broadway Complete Streets here.
The farmers’ market recently returned to the W/X freeway
