Note: Other Truxel Bridge posts are available under category ‘Truxel Bridge‘. Other Green Line posts are available under category ‘Green Line to the Airport‘.
People have asked for the background documents and decisions that preceded the City of Sacramento’s current push for a motor vehicle-transit-walking-bicycling bridge over the American River on the Truxel Road alignment, the Truxel Bridge.
The city sponsored a ‘Community Conversation’ meeting in south Natomas on January 10. The presentation given at that meeting is available. The city’s Truxel Bridge Concept and Feasibility Study web page also offers a fact sheet. No other recent documents are available, so far as we are aware. The city council approved funding for the study on January 1, 2023, via consent agenda.
SacRT has acknowledged the Truxel Bridge Concept and Feasibility Study, but has taken no board action to approve or disapprove the city’s project.
The American River Crossing Summary Report (2013-05) analyzed eight crossing alternatives, including ‘no project’ (from the city’s perspective, but this would have accepted the SacRT transit-walking-bicycling bridge). The selected alternative was the river crossing in alignment with Truxel Road, the Truxel Bridge option. There is a Technical Report American River Crossing (2013-05), with the actual analysis that was summarized in the other report. This document was just discovered, and has not been reviewed. Sacramento City Council adopted the report and selected alternative at the 2013-08-08 meeting (the attached summary report and technical report appear to be the same as those linked above, but with as a draft April 2013).
SacRT has a number of documents related to the Green Line to the Airport (formerly Downtown-Natomas-Airport) project which would cross the American River. The first to share is the DNA Alternatives Analysis (2004-01), which developed a locally preferred alternative (LPA) with an American River crossing in alignment with Truxel Road. The next major document is the Green Line Transitional Analysis Report (2010-11), which served to refine the LPA and included estimates of construction and operations costs. This report was adopted by the SacRT board on 2010-11-08. There was a board update, without action, on 2015-08-10. We have not found any other relevant documents since 2010. If the EIS/EIR mentioned in the 2015 update was completed, it has not been located.
Sacramento Transit Advocates and Riders (STAR) 
The city’s Technical Report American River Crossing (2013-05) has been reviewed, at least at a skim level. It does not contain data to support the claim that the bridge will reduce VMT. The data probably exists, but has not been made available to the public.
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The Truxel Bridge project is in the city’s Transportation Priorities Plan as ‘regionally signficant’, not rated on the low, moderate, high scale. The term regionally significant is not defined.
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