Source: The Appeal Democrat Jan 29, 2026
Separated lanes, improved signage
Sutter County Board of Supervisors Tuesday added its approval to a regional plan to improve bicycle safety from Yuba College in Linda to the Sutter Buttes.
Supervisors adopted a resolution recognizing the Yuba-Sutter Bicycle Implementation Plan as a a regional guide for active transportation funding and implementation.
The Yuba-Sutter Bicycle Implementation Plan was developed in March 2023 through collaboration between Alta Planning + Design and the Blue Zones Project with extensive input from local agencies, advocates, and community stakeholders, Development Services Director Neal Hay told the Board of Supervisors.
The plan provides a comprehensive framework for expanding safe, equitable, and connected bicycle infrastructure across the Yuba-Sutter region, Hay reported.
The plan identifies a 12-mile quick-build network that would connect Yuba College, Marysville, Yuba City, and the Sutter Buttes through protected bike lanes, bicycle boulevards, and enhanced pathway connections. This regional approach addresses the primary barrier to increased bicycling identified through community engagement: the lack of safe and comfortable bicycle facilities.
Yuba County previously adopted a similar resolution.
Regional collaboration on a plan increases the chances of receiving funding from the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, California’s active transportation program, the federal infrastructure investment and job act, and other state and federal transportation programs.
Hay said removing barriers for increased bicycling will provide safety benefits for bicyclists and pedestrians through protected infrastructure, improve connectivity to commercial areas and employment centers, improve health, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and focuses public dollar investments on disadvantaged communities.
A recent analysis of Yuba-Sutter traffic accidents over the past six years by a consultant developing a regional transportation safety plan identified 48 accidents in which a bicyclist was killed or seriously injured. During the same period, 101 pedestrians were killed or seriously injured.
The plan also aligns with SACOG’s regional trail network vision of creating more than 1,000 miles of connected trails across the Sacramento region.
Part of the plan includes “quick build” protected bike lanes out of temporary materials that can be tested, refined, and later made permanent.
The plan involves building a quick build separated bikeway on Hooper Road to Butte House Road, on Butte House Road from Hooper Road to Blevin Road, on Blevin Road from Butte House Road to Queens Avenue, on Queens Avenue from Blevin Road to Live Oak Boulevard, and on /Queens Avenue/Market Street from Live Oak Boulevard to Lynn Way.
At Lynn Way, the plan is to upgrade bollard paint and gate access to the levee which would take bicyclists to the Fifth Street Bridge.
In Marysville, improved bicycle and pedestrian signing would direct people down Olive Street to Sixth Street, where a lane-sharing boulevard will be added from Olive Street to Yuba Street.
A separated or buffered bike lane would be added on Yuba Street from Sixth to 10th streets, and on 10 Street from Yuba Street to Ramirez Street where it goes up over the levee as Simpson Lane.
The plan is to install a separated bikeway or buffered bicycle lanes along Simpson Lane to Linda Avenue, and enhance existing bike lanes to buffered bike lanes on Linda Avenue from Hammonton-Smartsville Road to North Beale Road.
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