• See where in Sacramento fatal traffic accidents happen most often (SacBee 2016-01-15)
• Bait-bike program expands to south Sacramento (SacBee 2016-01-14)
• Time to consider higher sales tax for Sacramento’s regional transportation work (SacBee 2016-01-13)
• Sacramento region’s planning chief – aka ‘Mr. Consensus’ – to retire (SacBee 2016-01-13)
• New downtown buildings must add life to Sacramento, not suck its soul (SacBee 2016-01-12); State tax agency looking at Capitol Mall site for new headquarters (SacBee 2016-01-12)
• Europe pushes bicycling in hopes of shrinking carbon emissions (SacBee 2016-01-11)
• Status Check: Bridging the Divide: West Sac makes progress on transportation upgrades (Comstock’s 2016-01-01)

• New RT app allows riders to buy tickets, passes, via smartphones (SacBee 2016-01-05)
• Public housing residents call upscale infill troubling (SacBee 2016-01-04)
• Sacramento Freeways and the “Small Town Mindset” (Streetsblog 2016-01-04); Tear Down the Capital City Freeway (Systemic Failure 2016-01-01); Back-Seat Driver: Tony Bizjak: Caltrans plans to widen Capital City Freeway – but when? (SacBee 2015-12-25)

Note: The Sacramento Business Journal has implemented a tight restriction on viewing of articles, only three free per month. Since I cannot afford to subscribe to the publication, there will no longer be news items from the Sacramento Business Journal linked here.

Back-Seat Driver: Tony Bizjak: Whoa there on that hoverboard, fella! (SacBee 2015-12-28)

• Experts: CHP erred in investigation of fatal crash involving judge (SacBee 2015-12-27)
• Back-Seat Driver: Tony Bizjak: Caltrans plans to widen Capital City Freeway – but when? (SacBee 2015-12-26); “That freeway goes right through our living room,” – exactly – why would anyone want a freeway in their living room!
• Police reuniting stolen bikes with owners (SacBee 2015-12-16)
• Sacramento wants to turn train tracks into 4.5-mile trail for bikes, pedestrians (SacBee 2015-12-22)
• Back-Seat Driver/Tony Bizjak: Is Sacramento’s newest street an instant speedway? (SacBee 2015-12-21)
• Folsom Boulevard Complete Street Master Plan (Sacramento County DOT)

• West Sacramento moves to next step on Broadway Bridge (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-12-18)
• Bicycles would ease daily struggles, enable independence for foster youths (SacBee 2015-12-17)
• Construction to start soon on south Sacramento shopping center (SacBee 2015-12-16); will we never learn? this type of roadway building and development is a recipe for fiscal and environmental disaster
• Woodland police arrest three people in hit-and-run death of pedestrian (SacBee 2015-12-15)
• South Sacramento road offers major new Highway 99/I-5 connector (SacBee 2015-12-14)
• Returning from lofty talks in Paris, Jerry Brown must turn to rutted reality of potholes (SacBee 2015-12-14)
• Gallery: 2015 Sacramento Christmas bike and toy giveaway (SacBee 2015-12-14)

• Bike repair kits can keep homeless people rolling (SacBee 2015-12-12)
• CHP releases 911 call in fatal cyclist accident involving Sacramento judge (SacBee 2015-12-10)
• Back-Seat Driver: Three sports, in one day, in one downtown? (SacBee 2015-12-07)

• Sacramento parking meter rates to rise this week (SacBee 2015-12-06)
• Doug Vincent, bicycle lover among bicycle lovers (Sacramento News & Review 2015-12-03)
• CHP denies request for 911 recording in fatal crash involving judge (SacBee 2015-12-02)
• Restaurateur Paragary plans boutique hotel in midtown Sacramento (SacBee 2015-12-02); Paragary proposes six-story boutique hotel in midtown (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-12-02); highlights the tension between infill development and historic preservation
• Sacramento council OKs preliminary term sheet for soccer stadium (SacBee 2015-12-02); Sacramento Republic scores 8-0 at City Council meeting (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-12-02); Sacramento Republic releases renderings of proposed soccer stadium (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-12-01)
• Serrano developer has a big new plan for El Dorado Hills (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-12-01); more exurban sprawl
• Community meetings to discuss light-rail extension to airport (SacBee 2015-11-30)
• A future of light rail, trains and driverless cars? (SacBee 2015-11-30)

• Family, witness question CHP errors in initial report on fatal bicycle crash (SacBee 2015-11-29)
• Grand piece of Sacramento civic art has come back to life (SacBee 2015-11-26)
• Back-Seat Driver: A look inside some of Sacramento’s congestion hot spots (SacBee 2015-11-23)

• Ed Goldman: Light-rail cars don’t need to be pristine, just safe (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-11-20)
• New bridge installed at Curtis Park Village (SacBee 2015-11-19)
• Huge master plan foresees thousands of homes and jobs in north Sacramento County (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-11-18); another Sacramento County sprawl development rears its head
• Sacramento seeks to ease the way for fans when downtown arena opens (SacBee 2015-11-17)
• No elbow room anymore on Sacramento roads (SacBee 2015-11-16)

• Design can reconnect us with Sacramento’s greatest asset: The river (SacBee 2015-11-15)
• Still looking for a university anchor, Cordova Hills developer sees 2018 start (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-11-13); translation: developer continues expensive scam on citizens of Sacramento County
• Fatal crash in which Sacramento judge struck cyclist prompts questions (SacBee 2015-11-13)
• In Development: Gateway to Downtown (Sacramento Magazine 2015-11-11)
• City proposes turning major central-city streets into two lanes, other not-car-friendly improvements (Sacramento News & Review 2015-11-12)
• Here’s what you need to know about parking changes downtown (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-11-09); Sacramento City Council approves higher parking meter rates (SacBee 2015-11-10)
• Back-Seat Driver: Sacramento wants to turn more one-way streets to two-way (SacBee 2015-11-09)
• Elk Grove struggles to tailor big projects to fit budget (SacBee 2015-11-09); the Elk Grove growth ponzi scheme is beginning to run out of steam