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The Sacramento County Department of Transportation is dedicated
to providing a safe and efficient transportation system for
all modes of travel that achieves community mobility for it's
citizens, businesses and industry. Hazel Avenue is a vital
transportation corridor for regional and local traffic, businesses,
and those accessing recreational areas along the American
River. Hazel Avenue is one of only a few bridge crossings
of the American River and additional crossings are highly
unlikely due to the loss of former State right of ways and
their subsequent residential development. These limited crossings
and connecting transportation corridors must be maximized
to address the mobility deficiencies that presently exist
and are projected in the future.
It is the goal of the Department of Transportation to implement
a financially feasible road improvement project that would
involve mechanisms to increase operating capacities for all
modes of travel, decrease congestion and minimize delays,
and improve safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, and vehicles.
Any project identified by the Hazel Community Advisory Committee
should address the following:
- Increase vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian safety
- Reduce existing traffic congestion
- Provide improvements and programs that minimize traffic
congestion now and in the future as growth occurs
- Improve the access to the American River Parkway
- Potentially decrease the long-term air quality degradation
- Improve existing noise conditions
- Improve the esthetic quality of the corridor such as with
landscape installation
- Improve vehicular and personal safety such as with installation
of street lighting
- Make efficient use of the limited number of existing crossings
of the American River
- Capture available federal funding for the proposed improvements
- Enhance economic activities in the region and adjacent
to the project by providing increased mobility and efficient
delivery of goods and services
- Potentially reduce the use of adjacent residential streets
by motorists to avoid congestion on Hazel Avenue
- Enhance the mobility of Regional Transit busses
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