Bicycle Master Plan
Sacramento County General Plan
Bicycle Master Plan
Section titled “Sacramento County General Plan Bicycle Master Plan”Adopted April 2011
This document is maintained by the Sacramento County Department of Transportation.
Purpose
Section titled “Purpose”The Bicycle Master Plan is intended to guide and influence bikeway policies, programs and development standards to make bicycling in Sacramento County more safe, comfortable, convenient, and enjoyable for all bicyclists. The ultimate goal of this effort is to increase the number of persons who bicycle in Sacramento County for transportation to work, school, and errands, and for recreation. The Bicycle Master Plan is developed to complement the Circulation Element of the Sacramento County General Plan (GP), which includes goals and policies to develop a balanced transportation system for automobiles, transit, bicycles, and pedestrians.
Bicycling is a low-cost, quiet, non-polluting, sustainable, and healthy form of transportation ideal for many trips. The individual benefits of bicycling include improved health through increased physical activity, stress reduction, and lower transportation costs. The social benefits of bicycling include improved air quality through reduced vehicular emissions, improved traffic, reduced use of non-renewable fuel resources, and reduced health care costs via a healthier population. Bicycling contributes to the Board of Supervisors’ (BOS) goal of Sacramento County being a community that offers its citizens a variety of transportation choices, all with the goal of creating an amazing quality of life for our citizens.
Download
Section titled “Download”Download the Bicycle Master Plan. This is an archived PDF document.