Sacramento, California City of Sacramento Sacramento C Sac RT S City Skyline Raley Field.JPG Tower Bridge Sacramento Sacramento Memorial Auditorium Clockwise from top left: California State Capitol, Sacramento RT Light Rail train through Midtown, Raley Field, Downtown Sacramento skyline, Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento Tower Bridge Flag of Sacramento, California Flag Official seal of Sacramento, California Location of Sacramento in Sacramento County, California Location of Sacramento in Sacramento County, California Sacramento, California is positioned in California Sacramento, California - Sacramento, California Body Sacramento City Council Sacramento (/ s kr m nto /; Spanish: [sak a mento]) is the capital town/city of the U.S.
State of California and the seat of Sacramento County.
It is at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley.
Its estimated 2016 populace of 493,025 makes it the sixth-largest town/city in California, the fastest-growing big town/city in the state, and the 35th biggest city in the United States. Sacramento is the cultural and economic core of the Sacramento urbane area, which includes seven counties with a 2010 populace of 2,414,783. Its urbane region is the fourth biggest in California after the Greater Los Angeles area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the San Diego urbane area, and is the 27th biggest in the United States.
Sacramento became a town/city through the accomplishments of the Swiss immigrant John Sutter, Sr., his son John Augustus Sutter, Jr., and James W.
During the California Gold Rush, Sacramento was a primary distribution point, a commercial and agricultural center, and a end for wagon trains, stagecoaches, riverboats, the telegraph, the Pony Express, and the First Transcontinental Railroad.
The town/city was titled after the Sacramento River, which forms its border.
California State University, Sacramento, is the biggest university in the town/city and one of 23 campuses in the California State University system.
In addition, the University of California, Davis, positioned in close-by Davis, operates its UC Davis Medical Center, a world-renowned research hospital, in the town/city of Sacramento.
Main article: History of Sacramento, California See also: Timeline of Sacramento, California In 1808, the Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga identified and titled the Sacramento Valley and the Sacramento River.
John Sutter first appeared on August 13, 1839 at the divergence of the American and Sacramento Rivers with a Mexican territory grant of 50,000 acres.
Then prepared the City of Sacramento 2 miles south of New Helvetia, in association with Sam Brannan against the wishes of his father, naming the town/city after the Sacramento River for commercial reasons.
However, a bitterness interval between the elder Sutter and his son as Sacramento became an overnight commercial success (Sutter's Fort, Mill and the town of Sutterville, all established by John Sutter, Sr., would eventually fail).
The people of Sacramento adopted a town/city charter in 1849, which was recognized by the state council in 1850.
Sacramento is the earliest incorporated town/city in California, incorporated on February 27, 1850. During the early 1850s, the Sacramento valley was devastated by floods, fires and cholera epidemics.
Many first came to San Francisco, which was then the biggest city in California, which was known as "Dai Fow" (The Big City) and some came eventually to Sacramento (then the second-largest town/city in California), which is known as "Yee Fow" (Second City).
They also helped build the levees inside Sacramento and its encircling cities.
While most of Sacramento's Chinatown has now been razed, a small Chinatown mall remains as well as a exhibition dedicated to the history of Sacramento's Chinatown and the contributions Chinese Americans have made to the city.
The California State Legislature, with the support of Governor John Bigler, moved to Sacramento in 1854.
After 1850, when California's statehood was ratified, the council met in San Jose until 1851, Vallejo in 1852, and Benicia in 1853, before moving to Sacramento.
In the 1879 Constitutional Convention, Sacramento was titled to be the permanent state capital.
From 1862 until the mid-1870s Sacramento raised the level of its downtown by building reinforced brick walls on its downtown streets, and filling the resulting street walls with dirt.
Both the American and especially Sacramento rivers would be key elements in the economic success of the city.
In fact, Sacramento effectively controlled commerce on these rivers, and enhance works projects were funded though taxes levied on goods unloaded from boats and loaded onto rail cars in the historic Sacramento Rail Yards.
The American River is a 5-mph (8-km/h) waterway for all power boats (including jet-ski and similar craft) (Source Sacramento County Parks & Recreation) and has turn into an global attraction for rafters and kayaking.
The Sacramento River sees many boaters, who can make day trips to close-by sloughs or continue along the Delta to the Bay Area and San Francisco.
The city's current charter was adopted by voters in 1920. As a charter city, Sacramento is exempt from many laws and regulations passed by the state legislature.
The 1964 consolidation of the City of North Sacramento with Sacramento substantially increased its population, and large annexations of the Natomas region eventually led to momentous population expansion throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Sacramento County (along with a portion of adjoining Placer County) is served by a customer-owned electric utility, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD).
Sacramento voters allowed the creation of SMUD in 1923. In April 1946, after 12 years of litigation, a judge ordered Pacific Gas & Electric to transfer title of Sacramento's electric distribution fitness to SMUD.
Today SMUD is the sixth-largest enhance electric utility in the U.S., and is a prestige for innovative programs and services, including the evolution of clean fuel resources, such as solar power. The year following the creation of SMUD, 1924, brought a several affairs in Sacramento: Standard Oil executive Verne Mc - George established Mc - George School of Law, American department store Weinstock & Lubin opened a new store at 12th and K street, the US$2 million Senator Hotel was open, Sacramento's drinking water became filtered and treated drinking water, and Sacramento boxer Georgie Lee fought Francisco Guilledo, a Filipino experienced boxer known as Pancho Villa, at L Street Auditorium on March 21. Early in World War II, the Sacramento Assembly Center (also known as the Walerga Assembly Center) was established to home Japanese Americans forcibly "evacuated" from the West Coast under Executive Order 9066.
The assembly center was assembled on the site of a former migrant workforce camp, and inmates began arriving from Sacramento and San Joaquin Counties on May 6, 1942.
As of 2006, the town/city of West Sacramento took responsibility for the Port of Sacramento.
A new executive mansion, constructed by private funds in a Sacramento suburb for Reagan, remained vacant for nearly forty years and was recently sold by the state.
When the deal fell through, the bond proceeds were used to construct a several large projects, including expanding the Sacramento Convention Center Complex and refurbishing of the Memorial Auditorium.
Through his accomplishment, Sacramento became the first primary city in the nation to have a paid municipal holiday honoring Chavez.
In spite of military base closures and the diminish of agricultural food processing, Sacramento has continued to experience populace growth in recent years.
Even with a devolution of state agencycracy, the state government remains by far Sacramento's biggest employer.
The City of Sacramento expends considerable accomplishment to keep state agencies from moving outside the town/city limits. In addition, many federal agencies have offices in Sacramento.
The Sacramento River near the old pumping station Aerial view of the town/city of Sacramento California, showing the geography of the encircling area.
As a result, the greater urbane region sprawls only four miles (6 km) west of downtown (as West Sacramento, California) but 30 miles (48 km) northeast and east, into the Sierra Nevada foothills, and 10 miles (16 km) to the south into valley farmland.
The town/city is positioned at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River, and has a deep-water port connected to the San Francisco Bay by a channel through the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta.
It is the shipping and rail center for the Sacramento Valley.
Panoramic view of downtown Sacramento from West Sacramento Sacramento, California by drone Alkali Flat, Boulevard Park, Campus Commons, Sacramento State, Dos Rios Triangle, Downtown, East Sacramento, Fab Forties, Mansion Flats, Marshall School, Midtown, New Era Park, Mc - Kinley Village, Newton Booth, Old Sacramento, Poverty Ridge, Richards, Richmond Grove, River Park, Elmhurst, Sierra Oaks, Southside Park. Airport, Carleton Tract, Freeport Manor, Golf Course Terrace, Greenhaven, Curtis Park, Hollywood Park, Land Park, Little Pocket, Mangan Park, Meadowview, Parkway, Pocket, Sacramento City College, South Land Park, Valley Hi / North Laguna, Z'Berg Park. Alhambra Triangle, Avondale, Brentwood, Carleton Tract, Colonial Heights, Colonial Village, Colonial Village North, Curtis Park, Elmhurst, Fairgrounds, Florin, Industrial Park, Fruitridge Manor, Glen Elder, Glenbrook, Granite Regional Park, Lawrence Park, Med Center, North City Farms, Oak Park, Packard Bell, South City Farms, Southeast Village, Tahoe Park, Tahoe Park East, Tahoe Park South, Tallac Village, Vintage Park, Churchill Downs, and Woodbine. Additional prominent regions and neighborhoods in the town/city include American River Parkway, Arden, Arden Fair, Cal Expo, Capital Avenue, Coffing, College Glen, College Greens, Colonial Manor, Cordova, Creekside, East Fruitridge, Elder Creek, Elkhorn, Elvas, Erikson Industrial Park, Excelsior Sunrise, Foothill Farms, Franklin, Frates Ranch, Gateway Center, Gateway West, Glenwood Meadows, Hansen Park, Heritage Park, Johnson Business Park, Johnson Heights, Mayhew, Metro Center, Mills, Natomas Corporate Center, Natomas Creek, Natomas Crossing, Natomas Park, Newton Booth, Noralto, Northpointe, Norwood, Oak Knoll, Old North Sacramento, Parker Homes, Point West, Raley Industrial Park, Regency Park, Richardson Village, Richmond Grove, Rosemont, Sierra Oaks, Sports Complex, Strawberry Manor, Sundance Lake, Swanston Palms, Town and Country Village, Upper Land Park, Village 5, Village 7, Village 12, Village 14, Village Green, Walerga, Walsh Station, West Del Paso Heights, Westlake, Willowcreek, Wills Acres, Winn Park, Woodside and Youngs Heights. The normal annual mean temperature is 61.0 F (16.1 C), with the monthly daily average temperature ranging from 46.4 F (8.0 C) in December to 75.5 F (24.2 C) in July. Summer heat is often moderated by a sea breeze known as the "delta breeze" which comes through the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta from the San Francisco Bay, and temperatures cool down sharply at evening.
Sacramento is the second most flood susceptible town/city in the United States after New Orleans. Climate data for Sacramento, California (Sacramento Executive Airport), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1941 present Climate data for Sacramento 5 ESE, California (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1877 present) metros/cities having a "high range" rating of the range index. Moreover, Sacramento is one of the most well-integrated U.S.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Sacramento had a populace of 466,488.
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 125,276 persons (26.9%); 22.6% of Sacramento's populace is of Mexican heritage, 0.7% Puerto Rican, 0.5% Salvadoran, 0.2% Guatemalan, and 0.2% Nicaraguan. Non-Hispanic Whites were 34.5% of the populace in 2010, down from 71.4% in 1970. Sacramento has one of the highest LGBT populations per capita, ranking seventh among primary American cities, and third in California behind San Francisco and slightly behind Oakland, with roughly 10% of the city's total populace identifying themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. As of 2012, the top employers in the City of Sacramento were: 9 Sacramento City Unified School District 5,000 11 City of Sacramento 4,083 The earliest part of the town besides Sutter's Fort is Old Sacramento, which consists of cobbled streets and many historic buildings, a several from the 1850s and 1860s.
The historic buildings include the Lady Adams Building, assembled by the passengers and ship's carpenters of the ship Lady Adams. Having railwaythe Great Conflagration of November 1852, it is the earliest surviving building in Sacramento other than Sutter's Fort. Reconstruction of California's first permanent theatre, the Eagle Theatre (Sacramento, California) Also of historic interest is the Eagle Theatre (Sacramento, California), a ongoing standard of California's first permanent theatre in its initial location.
The Sacramento Convention Center Complex governs both the Community Center Theatre and Memorial Auditorium.
The Sacramento Ballet, Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sacramento Opera perform at the Community Center Theater.
The Sacramento region has one of the biggest compilation of improve theatres in California.
Some of these include the Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre and Playwrights Workshop, Davis Musical Theatre Co., El Dorado Musical Theatre, Runaway Stage Productions, River City Theatre Company, Flying Monkey Productions, The Actor's Theatre, KOLT Run Productions, Kookaburra Productions, Big Idea Theatre, Celebration Arts, Lambda Player, Light Opera Theatre of Sacramento, Synergy Stage and the historic Eagle Theatre.
Many of these theatres compete annually for the Elly Awards overseen by The Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance or SARTA.
The Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission is an organization which was established as the Sacramento arts council in 1977 to furnish several arts programs for the city.
Sacramento Second Saturday Art Walk is a program of small-town art arcades that stay open into the late evenings every second Saturday of each month, providing a unique experience for the small-town populace as well as tourists to view initial art and meet the artists themselves.
The California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento has historical exhibits and live steam locomotives that patrons may ride.
The California Automobile Museum, positioned just south of Old Sacramento, is filled with automotive history and vehicles from 1880 to 2006 and is the earliest non-profit automotive exhibition in the West.
In addition, the Sacramento History Museum, in the heart of Old Sacramento, focuses on the history of Sacramento from the region's pre-Gold Rush history through the present day.
There is a Museum Day held in Sacramento every year, when 26 exhibitions in the greater Sacramento region offer no-charge admission.
The Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sacramento Baroque Soloists, the Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra, the Sacramento Youth Symphony, the Sacramento Master Singers, the Sacramento Children's Chorus, and the Camellia Symphony each present a full season of concerts.
Each year, the town/city hosts the Sammies, the Sacramento Music Awards.
Sacramento also has a reputation as a center for Dixieland jazz, because of the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee which is held every Memorial Day weekend.
A burgeoning number of rock, hardcore and metal bands hail from the Sacramento area, including Tesla, Deftones, Papa Roach, Will Haven, Trash Talk, Dance Gavin Dance, A Lot Like Birds, Far, CAKE, !!!, Oleander and Steel Breeze; plus some other famous musicians like record producer and recording artist Charlie Peacock, Bob Stubbs of Social Distortion and Craig Chaquico of Jefferson Starship.
Sacramento is home to the Sacramento French Film Festival, a cultural event held every year in July that features U.S.
In addition, Sacramento is home to the Trash Film Orgy, a summer film festival celebrating the absurd, B-movies, horror, monster, exploitation. Founded in 2007, the Sacramento Horror Film Festival showcases feature-length and short films as well as live musical and theatrical performances in the horror and macabre genres. Of note, Sacramento has been home to various actors, including Eddie Murphy, who resided in the Riverlake improve of Pocket-Greenhaven with his then wife Nicole Mitchell Murphy, a fashion model and Sacramento native.
In 2012, Sacramento started the marketing campaign as "America's Farm-to-Fork Capital" due to Sacramento's many restaurants that origin their food locally from the various encircling farms. In 2012, The Kitchen was impel for Outstanding Restaurant by the James Beard Foundation. Sacramento is also known for its beverage culture, with keystone affairs that include Cal Expo's Grape and Gourmet, Sacramento Beer Week, and Sacramento Cocktail Week.
Sacramento is home to one primary league sports team the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association.
The Kings came to Sacramento from Kansas City in 1985.
On January 21, 2013, a controlling interest of the Sacramento Kings was sold to Chris Hansen, who intended to move the charter to Seattle for the 2013 2014 NBA season and rename the team the Seattle Super - Sonics. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson fought the move, forming an ownership group led by Vivek Ranadive to keep the Kings in Sacramento.
In 2000, AAA minor league baseball returned to Sacramento with the Sacramento River Cats, an partner of the San Francisco Giants and formerly an partner of the Oakland Athletics.
The River Cats play in Raley Field, in West Sacramento.
The Sacramento Heatwave of the American Basketball Association previously played in the Sacramento region until 2013.
Sacramento was also formerly home to the now defunct Sacramento Monarchs of the WNBA.
Sacramento Kings NBA Basketball Golden 1 Center 16,291 1923 (1985) 1 NBA, 2 NBL (as Rochester Royals) Sacramento Republic FC USL (D3) Soccer Papa Murphy's Park 13,763 2012 1 USL Pro Sacramento boasts an extensive park fitness consisting of over 5,000 acres (2,023 ha) of parkland and recreation centers. The town/city features a compilation of lesser parks in the Downtown districts, including Crocker Park, Pioneer Landing and Southside Park.
In its 2013 Park - Score ranking, The Trust for Public Land reported that Sacramento was tied with San Francisco and Boston for having the 3rd best park fitness among the 50 most crowded U.S.
Cities. Park - Score rates city park systems by a formula that analyzes the city's median park size, park acres as percent of town/city area, the percent of inhabitants inside a half-mile of a park, spending of park services per resident, and the number of playgrounds per 10,000 residents.
Sacramento is a hotbed for high school rugby.
The Sacramento Valley High School Rugby Conference hosts the biggest and arguably deepest preseason youth and high school rugby tournament in America.
The Jedediah Smith Memorial Trail that runs between Old Sacramento and Folsom Lake grants access to the American River Parkway, a natural region that includes more than 5,000 acres (20 km2) of undeveloped land.
The California State Fair is held in Sacramento each year at the end of the summer, ending on Labor Day.
Among other recreational options in Sacramento is Discovery Park, a 275-acre (1.1 km2) park studded with stands of mature trees and grasslands.
This park is situated where the American River flows into the Sacramento River.
Main article: Government of Sacramento, California Sacramento City Hall The government of Sacramento operates as a charter town/city (as opposed to a general law city) under the Charter of the City of Sacramento.
The propel government is composed of the Sacramento City Council with 8 town/city council districts and the Mayor of Sacramento, which operate under a mayor-council government.
In addition, there are various departments and appointed officers such as the City Manager, Sacramento Police Department (SPD), the Sacramento Fire Department (SFD), City Clerk, City Attorney, and City Treasurer.
See also: Government of Sacramento County, California The City of Sacramento is part of Sacramento County, for which the government of Sacramento County is defined and authorized under the California Constitution, California law, and the Charter of the County of Sacramento. Much of the government of California is in practice the responsibility of county governments, such as the Government of Sacramento County.
The government of Sacramento County is composed of the propel five-member Board of Supervisors, a several other propel offices, including the Sheriff, District Attorney, and Assessor, and various county departments and entities under the oversight of the County Executive Officer.
Sacramento is positioned inside all of the supervisorial districts, presently represented by Phil Serna, Jimmie R.
The other officials propel in part by Sacramento inhabitants presently include Sheriff Scott Jones, District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, and Assessor Kathleen Kelleher.
In addition, a several other entities of the government of California have jurisdiction conterminous with Sacramento County, such as the Sacramento County Superior Court.
In the California State Senate, Sacramento is the heart of the 6th district, represented by Democrat Richard Pan. In the California State Assembly, it is split between the 7th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Kevin Mc - Carty, and the 9th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jim Cooper. In the United States House of Representatives, Sacramento forms the majority of the California's 6th congressional district, represented by Democrat Doris Matsui. Sacramento State north entrance Sacramento is home to Sacramento State (California State University, Sacramento), established as Sacramento State College in 1947.
The University of California has a campus, UC Davis, in close-by Davis and has a graduate center in downtown Sacramento.
UC also maintains the University of California Sacramento Center (UCCS) for undergraduate and graduate studies.
The Los Rios Community College District consists of a several two-year universities in the Sacramento region American River College, Cosumnes River College, Sacramento City College, Folsom Lake College, plus a large number of outreach centers for those colleges.
University of the Pacific has its Sacramento Campus in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento.
The private University of Southern California has an extension in downtown Sacramento, called the State Capital Center.
Epic Bible College and the Professional School of Psychology are also based in Sacramento.
Sacramento has a number of private vocational schools as well.
The Art Institute of California Sacramento was established in 2007, and is a branch of The Art Institute of California Los Angeles.
On J Street, there is the Lincoln Law School of Sacramento, a private, evening-only law school program with a strong legal existence in the region.
The Sacramento Public Library fitness has 28 chapters positioned in the greater area.
The Sacramento region is served by various enhance school districts, including the Sacramento City Unified School District, Natomas Unified School District, San Juan Unified School District, Twin Rivers Unified School District, and Elk Grove Unified School District.
Almost all areas south of the American River are served by the Sacramento City Unified School District.
This region was not originally part of the City of Sacramento and as such is not served by Sacramento City Unified School District.
North Sacramento outside of Natomas and Robla (for K-8) is served by the Twin Rivers Unified School District.
The Campus Commons region and the small portions of the Sierra Oaks neighborhood that fall into the town/city of Sacramento are served by the San Juan Unified School District.
While Roman Catholic establishments still dominate the autonomous school scene in the Sacramento area, in 1964, Sacramento Country Day School opened and offered Sacramento people an autonomous school that is affiliated with the California Association of Independent Schools.
Additionally, the suburb of Fair Oaks hosts the expansive riverside ground of the Sacramento Waldorf School, a Steiner school adjoining to the Rudolf Steiner College, and the biggest Waldorf school in North America.
Sacramento Waldorf School educates students from pre-K through 12th undertaking on a secluded, pastoral site that incorporates a large, functioning biodynamic farm.
Shalom School is the only Jewish day school in Sacramento; however, Brookefield School on property owned by Congregation B'nai Israel provides extracurricular Jewish education.
Sacramento Adventist Academy is another Christian school in Greater Sacramento.
There is one Islamic school in Sacramento, Masjid Annur, established in 1988.
The Sacramento Bee is the flagship paper of The Mc - Clatchy Company, the second-largest journal publisher in the United States.
The Sacramento Bee has won five Pulitzer Prizes in its history and various other awards, including many for its progressive enhance service campaigns promoting no-charge speech (the Bee often criticized government policy, and uncovered many scandals hurting Californians), anti-racism (the Bee supported the Union amid the American Civil War and later publicly denounced the Ku Klux Klan), worker's rights (the Bee has a strong history of supporting unionization), and surroundingal protection (leading various tree-planting campaigns and fighting against surroundingal destruction in the Sierra Nevada).
The Sacramento Union, the Sacramento Bee's rival, started publishing six years earlier in 1851; it closed its doors in 1994, with a revival attempt lasting from 2005 to 2009.
Business 80 (the Capital City Freeway) splits from I-80 in West Sacramento, runs through Sacramento, and then rejoins its parent in the northwest portion of the city.
A sign at the easterly end of US 50 in Ocean City, Maryland gives the distance to Sacramento as 3,073 miles (4,946 km).
Interstate 5 (I-5) runs though Sacramento, heads north up to Redding, and then heads south near the edge of the California Central Valley towards Los Angeles.
California State Highway 99 runs through Sacramento, heading closer to the easterly edge of the Central Valley, connecting to Marysville and Yuba City in the north, and Fresno and Bakersfield in the south.
California State Highway 160 approaches the town/city after running along the Sacramento River from Contra Costa County in the south, and then becomes a primary city street in Downtown Sacramento before turning into the North Sacramento Freeway, going over the American River to Business 80.
Some Sacramento neighborhoods, such as Downtown Sacramento and Midtown Sacramento are very bicycle friendly as are many other communities in the region.
As a result of litigation, Sacramento has undertaken to make all town/city facilities and sidewalks wheelchair accessible.
Amtrak's Sacramento Valley Rail Station serves as the city's chief rail gateway Amtrak provides passenger rail service to the town/city of Sacramento.
The Sacramento Valley Rail Station is on the corner of 5th and I streets near the historic Old Town Sacramento and underwent extensive renovations in 2007.
Sacramento is the northern end of the Amtrak California San Joaquins route which furnish direct multiple-frequency passenger rail service to California's Central Valley as far as Bakersfield; Thruway Motorcoach connections are available from the trains at Bakersfield to Southern California and Southern Nevada.
Amtrak's California Zephyr serves Sacramento daily and provides service to the east serving Reno, Salt Lake, Denver, Omaha, Chicago and intermediate cities.
Sacramento has the second busiest Amtrak station in California and the seventh busiest in the country.
Sacramento International Airport (IATA: SMF, ICAO: KSMF, FAA LID: SMF) is a enhance airport 10 miles (16 km) northwest of downtown Sacramento, in Sacramento County, California.
The town/city and its suburbs are served by Sacramento Regional Transit District, which rates as the eleventh busiest in the United States.
Sacramento's light rail fitness goes to the Sacramento Valley Rail Station, Cosumnes River College (Sacramento RT) in south Sacramento, and north to Watt/I-80 where I-80 and Business 80 meet.
There are expansion plans to extend the Green Line to Sacramento International Airport and the Blue Line to the City of Roseville, California through the City of Citrus Heights, California.
Also, there is a prepared street car line to connect downtown Sacramento with the City of West Sacramento, California.
Yolobus provides bus service to West Sacramento and Yolo County.
Bicycling is especially common in the older neighborhoods of Sacramento's center, such as Alkali Flat, Midtown, Mc - Kinley Park, Land Park, and East Sacramento.
The advocacy organization Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates co-sponsors the Sacramento Area Council of Governments' May is Bike Month campaign.
There is commuter bus service from Yolo County on Yolobus, from Solano County on FAST, on two bus lines from Yuba County's Yuba Sutter Transit, from Amador Transit's Sacramento Line, on Placer County Transit's Auburn to Light Rail Line, and from San Joaquin County on a several SMART bus lines.
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