Tahoe Park Inside

INside Tahoe Park

Connecting the Tahoe Park community

Accidents, Speeding, Traffic

Illegal turns Caught on tape

The fight for our disabled in Tahoe Park

The future of Tahoe Park's bike paths

56h and Broadway speeding

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The YMCA is opening the summer with a bang!

The Tahoe Pool is officially open!

TPA is welcoming Summer in with a Bang! Today TPA welcomed YMCA to the Tahoe Park community again for another year. We welcome their continued support and stewardship of one of Tahoe Park's Land Mark buildings the Tahoe Park Pool. The Tahoe Park pool is a pool of historic significance to Tahoe Park. TPA is very happy for thier return.

Click the image below for pool schedule and prices.

TP Brochure 2014.pdf

COMPLETED WALK/BIKE AUDIT

The Tahoe Park Association (TPA) Streets of focus will be 59th and Broadway and how they interact with side streets in Tahoe Park. The photographs here show just one of the accidents on Broadway and lack of adequate traffic calming and pedistrian safe crosswalks. Bikes are a major component of the walk/bike audit as we have bike lanes that go to nowhere and unsafe conditions.

UPDATE:

The first ever official walk/bike audit in Tahoe Park took place and was organized/ lead by TPA on June 28th, 2014. The bike/walk audit covered serious areas of concern for the disabled, seniors and residents. TPA has taken the "Safe Routes to School Pledge" and is working with Safe Routes to School regarding dangerous conditions currently in place. These conditions are long standing issues left unaddressed for decades encouraging urban sprawl. Walk Sacramento participated in sponsoring the event.

It is nearly every month we see accidents on Broadway. People are being hit in collisions with cars. The disabled and senior access is limited due to speeds in which cars are going 40-50+ miles an hour. This is hapening in Senior and school zones in areas of posted limits of 25-35 miles an hour.

TPA's walk bike audit identified these issues and are moving forward with the help of city leaders and other stakeholder groups to compile a report for review. TPA's report will be given the the city. If you have questions or would like to participate as a like minded member contact tpacomm@gmail.com

This is the entrance to Tahoe Park from the UCDMCmedcenter on 53rd and Broadway.

Many of our disabled residents cannot cross the street safely. This incident is one of many that is a regular occurance as senior facilities line the heart of Tahoe Park.

Our roads need to be accessable and safe to all. There is no sign even indicating drivers are entering a neighborhood. It is completely car focused and lanes are too wide.

This dangerous condition needs to be addressed.

Tahoe Park Streets Inhibiting Our Disabled and Seniors Access

TPA Addressing the problem of Tahoe Park's dangerous main corridors.

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The YMCA has Opened the Tahoe Park Pool for Another Season and TPA is Happy to Welcome Them Back to Tahoe Park

Man with disability on motorized gurney trying to cross in speeding busy traffic

Does Tahoe Park have bike lanes? Sure. But the burning questions in most biking residents minds is where do they go to?

We have bike routes with no lanes, lanes with no routes. All of which is particularly dangerous and offer no protection from traffic. Most choose just to avoid these crazy streets altogether.

Or the result is people choosing to ride on the sidewalk. While the city does not have a problem with children riding on the side walk perse, adults can not do the same and even if they could legally it puts other residents at risk. It also puts the most vunerable at risk those walking or using walking aids.

What is the solution? Painting more bike lanes? Or even the green paint?

Sounds good right? But are painting lanes in enough?

The resounding answer is NO. As Michael Anderson reports from www.peopleforbikes.org

"Bike lanes separated by planters, posts or parked cars aren't just more popular and less stressful than bike lanes or back-road bike routes, an important new study shows. They're safer – far safer."

As by Emily Badger from Atlantic Cities, reported researchers found that in Vancouver and Toronto, protected lanes saw reduction in non-fatal road injuries up to 90 percent.

Judging from the statistics and from local bike enthusiasts of Tahoe this is definitely the direction to take if we want to reduce injuries on our neighborhood streets.