In 2023, the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) was awarded funding from the United States Department of Transportation's Neighborhood Access and Equity (NAE) Discretionary Grant Program for the Green Zone Access and Equity Regional Planning Project. This award will allow the SACOG region to advance planning, engineering, design and project development activities to address barrier transportation facilities in nine federally designated disadvantaged communities that are (1) locally prioritized for infill development and (2) share the challenge of high volume, autocentric facilities that bisect existing neighborhoods to limit both economic and transportation mobility.

This collection of barrier transportation facilities included the City of West Sacramento's Sycamore Trail Phase IV and V Feasibility Study will help the City to address the legacy of barrier facilities: (1) Union Pacific Railroad and (2) Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel and Barge Canal.

Included in the 2013 Master Plan was the Sycamore Trail, a five-phase project that extends south from Sacramento Avenue near Yolo Street across the United State Route 50 (US 50) and the Barge Canal to the Lake Washington Boulevard and Jefferson Boulevard intersection. Sycamore Trail is a Class 1 multi-use trail that will be the only low transportation stress route connecting the City's northern and southern areas, and it will cross three transportation facilities that divide the community and deny disadvantaged communities access to the high-quality amenities in the City's newer areas that are not disadvantaged. The three east-west transportation facilities are, from north to south: 1) the Union Pacific Railroad/Sierra Northern Railway, 2) US-50/I-80 Business, and 3) the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel and Barge Canal.

The City completed Phase I of the Sycamore Trail in April of 2019. The first phase provides a multi-use paved trail and trail amenities that connect Westfield Park to Joey Lopes Park. Phase II of the project opened to the public in May 2025 and connects Evergreen Avenue just south of Joey Lopes Park with Westmore Oaks Elementary School to the south of US-50. A new pedestrian overcrossing crossing US-50/I-80 Business was constructed as part of Phase II. Phase III will further extend the trail from Westmore Oaks Elementary School to the intersection of Park Boulevard and Stone Boulevard. Phase III is currently in design and is fully funded through construction.

This study would begin work on Sycamore Trail crossing the two remaining phases. After Phase III is complete, the next step will be to cross through or over the twenty-foot-high Union Pacific Railroad and Sierra Northern Railway track embankments at the north end to reach Broderick/Bryte (Phase IV) and to cross the barge canal and Port of Sacramento railyard in the south to reach Southport (Phase V).

The City of West Sacramento is soliciting proposals from qualified firms or individuals ("Proposer") to provide consultant services for the Sycamore Trail Phase IV and V Feasibility Study. Once fully constructed, the Sycamore Trail will establish the City's first and only multi-use and low-transportation stress trail connecting the City's northern and southern areas. Sycamore Trail Phases 1-3 (including a bike/ped bridge over US 50) have already been funded through a variety of state, regional and local funds. Phases IV and V will address crossing the Union Pacific/Sierra Northern rail tracks and the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel and Barge Canal, respectively. The City seeks to conduct feasibility studies, cost estimates, and community engagement for the two remaining critical connections.

For more information and to submit a proposal, please use the City's Procurement system at https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/cityofwestsacramento.