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The Main Drain Parkway (along the Main Drain Canal) was first conceived by city planners as early as the late 1990s as the central bike/walk/equestrian path in the southern part of the city. The Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities Master Plan update in 2005 referred to the parkway as “the primary bicycle/pedestrian and equestrian link in Southport”. It would provide safe and easy pedestrian and bicycle access from the Bridgeway Island, Rivermont and Bridgeway Lakes neighborhoods to shopping, restaurants, schools, the community center, and wilderness access to Lake Washington and the Barge Canal nature area. It would help bicycle commuters connect to downtown Sacramento. Everyone agrees this link is of central importance for the city.

However, the Main Drain Parkway has never been started while other projects in the area have been conceived, planned, funded and finished – it has been languishing by the wayside! This was partly due to the city allowing the original developers ‘a pass’ to "not" pay for the project, however at one time the city had $900,000 earmarked for the project and nothing was started. The goal of our Community Group is to return the Main Drain Parkway to its original importance for the city and see the parkway completed!

It will help with green transportation, community pride and involvement, local home values, and entertainment for local residents.

Our group has discovered multiple ways to fund the project through grants (no new taxes!) and believe it is within the scope of the city to construct. However we need to have the grassroots political involvement of local residents to make the project a reality! Remember ‘The Squeaky Wheel gets the Oil!’.