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File ID: 2025-01569 10/14/2025
Shared Use Paths - An Update on Planning and Implementation File ID: 2025-01569
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Review and comment.
Contact: Jennifer Donlon Wyant, Mobility and Sustainability Division Manager, (916) 808-5913, [email protected]; Megan Johnson, Senior Engineer, (916) 808-1967, [email protected]; Adam Randolph, Senior Engineer, (916) 808-7803, [email protected]; Department of Public Works Presenter: Jennifer Donlon Wyant, Mobility and Sustainability Division Manager, (916) 808-5913, [email protected]; Megan Johnson, Senior Engineer, (916) 808-1967, [email protected]; Adam Randolph, Senior Engineer, (916) 808-7803, [email protected], Department of Public Works Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Presentation
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: Shared-use paths are paved paths of travel for the exclusive use of people walking, scooting and bicycling; they are off-street and separated from vehicular traffic by an open space or barrier. The City of Sacramento manages approximately 85 miles of shared-use paths including the Jackrabbit Trail, Niños Parkway, Sacramento Northern Parkway, Ueda Parkway, and the canal paths in the Pocket neighborhood. Recently constructed shared-use paths include the Del Rio Trail, Mae Fong Park Trail, and a portion of the Two Rivers Trail.
Shared-use paths provide all-ages and abilities accessible transportation and recreation opportunities benefiting those who use the paths but also contributing to economic development, community and personal health, and help the City to meet its sustainability goals.
City staff will provide an update on planning and prioritizing shared-use paths as well as shared-use paths currently in design including the Sacramento River Parkway and the Two Rivers Trail (Phase
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3).
Policy Considerations: Shared-use paths are guided by the Council Adopted 2016 Bicycle Master Plan and the forthcoming Streets for People Plan. Shared-use paths align with the following policies from the Sacramento 2040 General Plan:
M-1.2. User Prioritization. The City shall prioritize mobility, comfort, health, safety, and convenience for those walking, followed by those bicycling and riding transit, ahead of design and operations for those driving.
M-1.9 Equitable Processes and Outcomes. The City shall ensure that the transportation system is planned and implemented with an equitable process to achieve equitable outcomes and investments so that all neighborhoods one day will have similar levels of transportation infrastructure such as sidewalks, marked low stress crossings, and bikeways.
M-1.11 Increase Bicycling and Walking. The City shall strive to increase bicycling and walking citywide so that it can meet its equity, reduced vehicle miles traveled, and sustainability goals.
M-1.15. Improve Walking Connectivity. The City shall require new subdivisions, new multiunit dwelling developments, and new developments along commercial corridors to include well-lit, tree- shaded walkways where feasible, that provide direct links to the public realm or adjacent public destinations such as transit stops and stations, schools, parks, and shopping centers.
M-1.17 Improve Bicycling Connectivity. The City shall plan and seek funding for a continuous, low- stress bikeway network consisting of bicycling-friendly facilities that connect neighborhoods with destinations and activity centers throughout the city.
Economic Impacts: None.
Environmental Considerations: This informational update is an administrative activity and is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), per Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5).
Sustainability: The transportation sector accounts for over 57% of community-wide greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), the largest single sector in the community. Shared-use paths can help reduce GHGs by providing a low-stress, all ages and abilities way for people to travel by walking or bicycling, rather than by car.
Commission/Committee Action: Not applicable.
Rationale for Recommendation: Shared-use paths support many City goals and policies including air quality, climate, mobility, safety and equity.
File ID: 2025-01569 10/14/2025
Financial Considerations: None.
Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not applicable.
Jackrabbit Trail, North Natomas
Update on
Shared-Use Paths
Jennifer Donlon Wyant
Mobility and Sustainability Division Manager
Adam Randolph
Senior Engineer
Megan Johnson
Senior Engineer
October 14, 2025
Source: JIBE
Shared-Use Paths
Planning, Prioritizing, and
Maintaining
2 Miles
Existing Planned Total
88 113 201
Shared Use Paths
Transportation Priorities Plan
4 Improve Air Quality,
Climate, and Health
Provide
Equitable
Investment
Provide
Access to Destinations
Improve
Transportation
Safety
Maintain the Transportation
System
Annual
maintenanc
e needs
5 Cost per mile,
per year
Pavement maintenance $22,000
Landscape maintenance $7,500
Rangers $1,500
$31,000
Sacramento Northern
Parkway Maintenance
Current Shared-Use Path Efforts
6 Current
Shared-Use
Path
Efforts
7 Two Rivers Trail
Phase 3
Niños Parkway
Gap Closure
Morrison Creek
Trail
Sacramento
River Parkway
Jackrabbit Trail
Crossing
River Parkways
8 Two Rivers Trail
9 Two Rivers Trail
Phase 2:
● Projected completion fall
2025
Phase 3:
● Design is funded
● Design expected to be
completed Fall 2026
● Funding needed for ROW &
construction: $7 million
Phase 4:
● Funding needed for design,
ROW, and construction: $24m
10 Sacramento River Parkway
11 Sacramento River
Parkway (Pocket)
12 Segment 1:
● $14 funding secured for design, ROW, and
construction
● Finishing Preliminary Engineering and
Environmental
● Next design, ROW and construction
Segment 2:
● $9.7m for ROW and construction needed
● Timeline is dependent on future competitive
grants
13 Making great
places
Del Rio Trail
Source: DYSL
14 Thank you!
Sacramento River Parkway
Source: KMP Strategies