Why does so much need to be spent on a study?!? Heck, just look at traffic counts and major arteries.
Ignore the NIMBY's that want to protest all development, and BUILD A BROADWAY BRIDGE already!

Sacramento is sad when you compare it to another river city like Portland. Portland has 3 or 4 times the river crossings, and a nicer city to show for it. Sacramento has complete lack of cooperation between the Capitol and Yolo/W.Sac.

I predict that West Elk Grove (Southport) and Elk Grove will be connected, it's only a matter of time!

I hope they finally just build the planned bridge at Sutterville Road. I would LOVE to bypass the I5 / Biz 80 interchange to get to Davis at rush hour... From my naive perspective, it seems this would help alleviate the 2x daily grind of this maze of traffic...

NIMBYism cuts both ways. The Broadway bridge is first and foremost a band-aid for West Sacramento poor civic planning. They could have made Jefferson and Lk Washington Blvds into expressways, as well as better utilzed the Tower and I St bridges to access Sacramento and the freeway. Instead, purely on the basis of NIMBYism, West Sac has created a traffic nightmare for its residents, even though they are still early in their buildout.

West Sac failed to utilize their greenfield opportunity to provide their own traffic solutions, and now want to use a Broadway Bridge to dump their mistake on Sacramento.

Portland is indeed a great model in that both sides of the river are largely on grids, and their are enough bridges that one neighborhood doesn't receive all the traffic. This would be fine in Sacramento if both communities opened up their neighborhoods for mutual benefit. But that's not the case, and frankly I am not particularly interested in helping West Sacramentans speed down my street as he cuts through neighborhoods as he tries to get to 99.

And the idea that a bridge will improve a commute between I-5 and Davis is not realistic, as West Sac continues to build out and their NIMBY inspired streets get even more congested.

Lets be honest here - what is really needed is a freeway bypass connector over West Sac between 1-5 and 1-80 (maybe Sutterville to Industrial)? But West Sac NIMBYism will not even let an idea like that get off the ground.

Portland isn't a very good model when compared to Sacramento because it is a radically different situation. In Portland, both sides of the river are within the same city--here, not only are they different cities but different counties, which makes jurisdiction more complex. Portland got big a lot earlier than Sacramento, which meant different growth patterns--more dense interconnections, and fewer sprawling suburbs (Portland has those too, but they came later.) Sacramento's bridges are comparatively recent: the first bridge not exclusively for railroads was the I Street Bridge in 1911, followed by the Tower Bridge in 1935 (it replaced an earlier bridge that had 9-foot outriggers for non-railroad traffic.) But even those were primarily for highway traffic from the Bay Area to Sacramento and the Sierras, not traffic between West Sac and Sacramento--it simply wasn't needed.

It probably is needed now, but it's a problem because of precisely what bbbmer wants: people will get off the crowded freeways and zip through residential neighborhoods trying to avoid congestion--and create more congestion in the process.

My two cents: Re-activate the electric railroad that runs into Southport, build a streetcar/pedestrian/bicycle bridge at Broadway, and run a streetcar line from West Sac down Broadway, through Southside and then to downtown Sacramento (with connections to light rail.) That alone will take a lot of short-hop commuter pressure off the Pioneer Bridge, without adding more street traffic to the surface streets.

Holy cow, wburg and agree on something! And thank you for better articulation of my point about how the Portland / Sacramento bridge comparison differs.

Patrick J, despite the changes, Jefferson is not an expressway by any means and very shortly will become woefully inadequate to handle traffic from West Sac's expansion. Interesting that you are opposed to a "freeway into the heart of the Delta" but seem to be okay with West Sac building thousands of houses there?

While I am sorry that West Sac chose not to apply any long-term planning for their traffic needs, at this point I see that as something that is West Sac and Yolo's self created problem, not Sacramento's. As long as they continue to build their communities with walls and cul-de-sacs to prevent outisde traffic, I will oppose bridges that will dump their traffic onto our open gridded streets.