The funding continues development of important projects designed to ease traffic congestion and improve the air quality in the Sacramento region.
Light rail is an important piece of our strategy to decrease traffic and pollution.
This is the culmination of cooperation by the local, state, and federal governments and I am very pleased to see this project headed towards completion. Sacramento has a smart strategy of increasing our fleet, building more facilities for keep the buses running, and using technology to keep traffic moving. A portion of the funding is geared specifically to bringing transportation options to the region's high unemployment areas.