Mark Thomas designed improvements Folsom Boulevard to transform it into a pedestrian and bicycle friendly corridor, improve safety at Sacramento Regional Transit (RT) rail crossings, calm traffic, and improve connectivity and beautification to streetscapes to enhance City’s identity and development opportunities. Folsom Boulevard is a corridor with special historical significance to the Sacramento area. Folsom Boulevard was the route of US 50, and the main thoroughfare into and out of Sacramento, until the new freeway was built in the 1970s.