#SACTOWNURBANUPDATE: Sacramento City is well under way with it's Riverfront Re-connection project that will greatly improve access between the popular local and visitor destinations of Downtown, Capitol Mall, Old Town and the Crocker Art Museum. Costing $13.5 million in local and federal matching funds the project is scheduled to be completed by late summer/early fall 2016.
Capitol Mall at Tower Bridge will feature wider sidewalks and improved landscaping; a new entrance to Old Town is being built for pedestrians, bikes and autos that will connect with 2nd Street.
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| Likely look of new Old Town/Capital Mall connector looking South |
The O Street Bridge by the Crocker Art Museum will also feature wider sidewalks and a new railing to encourage pedestrian flow between Crocker and the Riverfront.
Construction is scheduled Monday through Friday and on 3 weekends in the fall, but not during special events in Old Town.
For Construction Detour information visit this map or the City's project site for more details.
It would be very pricey of course, but I wonder how much of the depressed portion of Interstate 5 could be given a concrete "roof".
ReplyDeleteAs well as reconnecting the parts of downtown Sacramento between L Street and R Street with the riverfront, such a concrete roof could also provide downtown sacramento with more parking spaces, a "solar farm" of photovoltaic panels above the parking spaces for shade, and possibly some city park landscaping.