News summary 2016-10-30

What more can we do to stop teens from dying in car crashes? (SacBee 2016-10-29); Foon misses the elephant in the room, which is that providing teens with alternatives to driving, such as frequent transit service and walkable and bikeable neighborhoods, would probably do more to reduce teen deaths than any training or graduated licensing; it is the driving addiction that kills
Sacramento could be among first to test fleet of self-driving vehicles (SacBee 2016-10-27)
Sacramento firm Siemens nabs another big light rail deal (SacBee 2016-10-27)
Planning Commission endorses ambitious downtown railyard plan (SacBee 2016-10-25)
Sacramento transportation sales tax mailers stir questions (SacBee 2016-10-24)
Raley’s shopping center on Freeport Boulevard gets planning commission’s approval (SacBee 2016-10-24); no drive-thru restaurants, bicyclist and pedestrian accommodation, less parking, all are a move towards a less suburban-sprawl design

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