• Restaurants and lofts have enlivened this corridor. A state parking garage may come next. (SacBee 2017-05-12); I thought the headline was facetious, but it is not; I can think of no better way to kill off an enlivened area than more parking garages and more state buildings
• California’s self-driving cars are rolling – and sometimes crashing (SacBee 2017-05-12)
• Who is to blame for ‘the worst block of downtown’ Sacramento? (SacBee 2017-05-12)
• Regional Transit Ridership Drops After Rate Hikes, But Revenue Up (CBS Sacramento 2017-05-11)
• Driving to Lake Tahoe? Planners hope you’ll take the bus instead. (SacBee 2017-05-10)
• We know how to keep pit bulls on a leash, but homeless campers aren’t going to like it (SacBee 2017-05-09)
• Phase-out of Shell tank farm latest step in changing West Sacramento riverfront (SacBee 2017-05-09)

I have a subscription to the SacBee online, which is what I use to gather and post the news summary items. I just clicked on an article of interest, which opened up an advertisement for a game app. That in itself is not unusual, but the ad in turn opened the Apple App Store to the app page. The is a complete and total violation of my privacy right and the terms of my service agreement. This could well have exposed my device to malicious hacking. This is the end of my relationship with the SacBee. I don’t trust them, and I will never trust them again. They are sleeze balls, selling anything they can for any reason. This will be the end of News summary, and I hope that it is the beginning of the end for the SacBee 

• Homeless pit bull attack leaves cyclist ‘bleeding like a stuck pig’ on popular parkway (SacBee 2017-05-06)
• Sacramento’s growing faster than it has in years, but not too fast, economist (SacBee 2017-05-06)
• Sacramento public housing residents just got free Zipcars (SacBee 2017-05-06)
• Racial profiling is real, and this is the only way to stop it (SacBee 2017-05-06); skip the racist troll comments
• Disabled-placard abusers, it’s your day of reckoning (SacBee 2017-05-06)
• Hazel Avenue Improvement Project – Phase 2 Update (Sacramento County 2017-05-04); until construction is complete, this is a death zone for bicyclists and pedestrians
• Can You Define Jaywalking In Sacramento? How About Crosswalk? (Capital Public Radio 2017-05-03); officers are enforcing laws the either don’t understand or mis-understand
• Bike Month: What’s happening in the Sacramento region (StreetsblogCal 2017-05-03) 
• Sacramento is fastest growing big city in California (SacBee 2017-05-03)
• Jack Ohman: Sacramento Midtown, AVs, and the crash test dummies… (SacBee 2017-05-03)
• Should California allow bicyclists to roll through stop signs? (SacBee 2017-05-02)
• Sacramento streetcar line gets $50 million in congressional budget (SacBee 2017-05-02)
• Could BART train terror be replayed on Sacramento light rail? (SacBee 2017-05-01)

• Are dead people taking your parking space? (SacBee 2017-04-28)
• California gas tax increase is now law. What it costs you and what it fixes (SacBee 2017-04-28)
• Five fun ways to spin your wheels during National Bike Month (Sactown magazine 2017-04-27)
• What Will It Take for Sacramento to Make Walking Safer in Poor Neighborhoods? (Streetsblog USA 2017-04-27)
• Bike sharing is coming to Sacramento. Why did that take 5 years again? (SacBee 2017-04-26)
• Bicyclists beware (Sacramento News & Review 2017-04-26)
• Nandi Cain’s bad day: Civil rights attorneys claim black Sacramentan was beaten in the streets, then abused at the county jail (Sacramento News & Review 2017-04-26)
• Ghost cars could be gliding down Sacramento streets by year’s end (SacBee 2017-04-25)
• Sunrise Boulevard is region’s real congestion champion, readers say (SacBee 2017-04-24)

I wasn’t going to post this week, as I’m off for the wilds of southern Utah, but then I realized that the transportation bill items would likely be ancient history by the time I get back. So…

Transportation Bill

• Gas-tax increase to pay for road repair clears California Legislature (SacBee 2017-04-07)
• Lawmakers undecided on gas-tax hike suddenly could get millions for their districts (SacBee 3017-04-07)
• Your gas costs – and pothole repair – depend on Jerry Brown’s political skills (SacBee 2017-04-06)
• Californians already pay a premium for good roads (SacBee 2017-04-05)
• Who’s telling the truth about California’s gas tax money? (SacBee 2017-04-05)
• After Years of Inaction, a Rush to Approve CA Transportation Funding Bill (StreetsblogCal 2017-04-04)
• California road tax increases stagger to Senate floor as deadline looms (SacBee 2017-04-04)
• Legislature shouldn’t choke on diesel’s win (SacBee 2017-04-04); in other words, it is OK to throw low income communities under the bus, or in this case, the truck
• Jerry Brown’s gas tax increases still need more votes (SacBee 2017-04-03)

Other

• All those quarters add up for Golden 1 Center (SacBee 2017-04-04)

Note: the news summary will not be published next week.

Transportation Bill

• Transportation plan to rebuild California roads is long overdue (SacBee 2017-04-02)
• Transportation Funding Bill Poisoned by Truck Amendment (StreetsblogCal 2017-03-30)
• Jerry Brown says road fix ‘is not eating cotton candy. This is real spinach.’ (SacBee 2017-03-31)
• Is Jerry Brown finally committed to fixing California’s lousy roads? (SacBee 2017-03-31(
• Editorial: California freeways need help, and motorists need assurances (SacBee 2017-03-30)
• Jerry Brown, Democratic leaders agree to increase taxes to fix California roads (SacBee 2017-03-30)
• Governor Brown, Senate President pro Tempore and Assembly Speaker Announce Landmark Road Repair and Transportation Investment Package (Office of Governor Brown 2017-03-30)

Other

• Natomas loses its housing mojo as developers hesitate to build (SacBee 2017-04-02)
• Folsom’s Johnny Cash Trail to be completed in early fall (SacBee 2017-04-02)
• Sacramento spinning its wheels on bike lanes (SacBee 2017-04-02)
• Sacramento tries to fend off L.A. in race for $44 million from VW to boost electric cars (SacBee 2017-03-30)
• Amtrak goes way off track in lack of assurance for public, passenger safety (SacBee 2017-03-29)
• Air Resources Board: We Need to Align Transportation Funding With Climate Goals (StreetsblogCal 2017-03-27)
• Back-Seat Driver: New Sacramento regional government chief talks Trump, transit
• State to sell $2 million site for upscale condos overlooking Capitol Park (SacBee 2017-03-27); interesting parking space proposals

• California vs. Trump: California regulators move forward on climate change rules (SacBee 2017-03-25)
• Transportation deal taking shape between Jerry Brown, Democratic leaders (SacBee 2017-03-24)
• Back-Seat Driver: Pedestrians want California cities to give them a head start crossing the street (SacBee 2017-03-20)
• Uber’s president joins the #DeleteUber movement, quitting after six months on the job (SacBee 2017-03-20)

• Proposed Trump budget slices needed federal funding for Sacramento streetcars, light rail (SacBee 2017-03-16)
• Sting snares 13 who misuse disabled parking placards near state Capitol (SacBee 2017-03-16)
• A parking meter by an empty lot? West Sacramento parking fee premature, some argue. (SacBee 2017-03-14)
• Sacramento RT partnership with advertising firm makes rolling billboards of area’s light-rail cars (SacBee 2017-03-13)
• CHP tickets Casa Roble students’ cars while they’re in class (SacBee 2017-03-13); also Bike and Trains
• Mayor says Old Sacramento needs more splash. Is it time for a new name, too? (SacBee 2017-03-12); also about access between Old Sac and rest of city

• Could Sacramento’s downtown get by with less parking? Some say yes (SacBee 2017-03-10)
• Light-rail service to Historic Folsom resumes after long disruption due to truck damage (SacBee 2017-03-08); Light-rail service to Historic Folsom to resume Wednesday (SacBee 2017-03-07)
• Can smarter bus routes help save Regional Transit? (SacBee 2017-03-07)
• Back-Seat Driver: California transit chiefs wonder: Will Trump ding them in his budget? (SacBee 2017-03-06)
• New GPS technology will help keep trains from crashing. Why is it taking so long to arrive? (SacBee 2017-03-06)

• Bike trail mostly reopens after water recedes along American River (SacBee 2017-03-02)
• Sacramento transit agency wants to shake up its bus routes (SacBee 2017-02-28)
• 30-day walking challenge: Readers share how they’ve kept walking (SacBee 2017-02-27)
• Taxes are on the table as push for California road funding intensifies (SacBee 2017-02-27)
• Back-Seat Driver: This winter has bashed the heck out of California roads (SacBee 2017-02-27)