RE: Natomas Trail Naming: Jackrabbit Trail Name Extension, Elkhorn Boulevard to Garden Highway File ID: 2023-01346
My name is Angela E. Hearring. I am a parent, resident of Natomas, a leisure bicycle rider, and a transportation advocate.
I am appreciative of the opportunity to share my public comment in regards to the naming of the extension of Jackrabbit Trail.
This trail extension will cover South Natomas and hopefully will lead into various parts of Sacramento and beyond. I would like to recommend naming this portion of the trail, the Steve Cohn Trail.
Steve Cohn has achieved numerous achievements for Sacramento, South Natomas and the transportation community in general. Steve Cohn is a former City of Sacramento Councilmember, who represented South Natomas, for five terms. While he was on the dais he always supported active transportation, which included bike trails.
While a councilmember Steve Cohn played a part in voting to adopt one of Sacramento’s original Master Bikeway Plan, the Pedestrian Master Plan and expanding the City of Sacramento bicycle and pedestrian network.
Steve Cohn continues to play an active role in the transportation community as co-chair of SMART (Sacramento Metro Advocates for Rail and Transit) and advocating for numerous transportation projects within Sacramento.
If this committee decides to name the extension of the trail that extends into South Natomas, I would highly recommend naming the trail after Mr. Steve Cohn.
Thank you for taking my recommendation into consideration.
I suppose this naming as an important step towards closing the connectivity gap between North and South Natomas. Due to the freeways through our neighborhood, San Juan at Airport Rd is the only viable bike connection between North and South, not only through the proposed Jackrabbit extension, but also through the nearby Bannon Creek Parkway trail with connects to Discovery Park and Old Sacramento.
With the Commission taking up this renaming, I hope that the City will implement actual active transportation infrastructure for the section of San Juan Road between Tice Creek and Bannon Creek Parkway. The current infrastructure consists of debris-clogged gutters an elbow's length from 45+ mph car and industrial traffic. I cannot imagine a kid riding on this section of road. These conditions are preventing me from taking my daughter by bike to her school in North Natomas or to the Aquatic Center, for example. The faster and easiest improvement is to repaint the overpass, which has like 30 feet of unused pavement.
October 19, 2023
Active Transportation Commission Board Members,
RE: Natomas Trail Naming: Jackrabbit Trail Name Extension, Elkhorn Boulevard to Garden Highway File ID: 2023-01346
My name is Angela E. Hearring. I am a parent, resident of Natomas, a leisure bicycle rider, and a transportation advocate.
I am appreciative of the opportunity to share my public comment in regards to the naming of the extension of Jackrabbit Trail.
This trail extension will cover South Natomas and hopefully will lead into various parts of Sacramento and beyond. I would like to recommend naming this portion of the trail, the Steve Cohn Trail.
Steve Cohn has achieved numerous achievements for Sacramento, South Natomas and the transportation community in general. Steve Cohn is a former City of Sacramento Councilmember, who represented South Natomas, for five terms. While he was on the dais he always supported active transportation, which included bike trails.
While a councilmember Steve Cohn played a part in voting to adopt one of Sacramento’s original Master Bikeway Plan, the Pedestrian Master Plan and expanding the City of Sacramento bicycle and pedestrian network.
Steve Cohn continues to play an active role in the transportation community as co-chair of SMART (Sacramento Metro Advocates for Rail and Transit) and advocating for numerous transportation projects within Sacramento.
If this committee decides to name the extension of the trail that extends into South Natomas, I would highly recommend naming the trail after Mr. Steve Cohn.
Thank you for taking my recommendation into consideration.
Respectfully,
Angela E. Hearring
I suppose this naming as an important step towards closing the connectivity gap between North and South Natomas. Due to the freeways through our neighborhood, San Juan at Airport Rd is the only viable bike connection between North and South, not only through the proposed Jackrabbit extension, but also through the nearby Bannon Creek Parkway trail with connects to Discovery Park and Old Sacramento.
With the Commission taking up this renaming, I hope that the City will implement actual active transportation infrastructure for the section of San Juan Road between Tice Creek and Bannon Creek Parkway. The current infrastructure consists of debris-clogged gutters an elbow's length from 45+ mph car and industrial traffic. I cannot imagine a kid riding on this section of road. These conditions are preventing me from taking my daughter by bike to her school in North Natomas or to the Aquatic Center, for example. The faster and easiest improvement is to repaint the overpass, which has like 30 feet of unused pavement.
Thank you.