• Sacramento’s opportunity to improve cycling (SacBee 2015-08-22)
• Here’s the latest financing idea for a streetcar from downtown to West Sacramento (SacBee 2015-08-21)
• Sacramento’s light-rail extension opens Monday with big questions (SacBee 2015-08-21)
• Five things to know about Sacramento’s new downtown housing initiative (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-08-21)
• How the ‘Fix My Ride 916’ social media campaign could be a major step for Sacramento 3.0 (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-08-21)
• Editorials: RT riders get a louder say (SacBee 2015-08-20)
• Study: Sacramento region continues outward growth despite ‘Blueprint’ goals (SacBee 2015-08-20); Editorials: Region Blueprint isn’t a failure (SacBee 2015-08-21)
• Years in the works, RT’s Blue Line is nearly ready to start service (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-08-18)
• Sacramento sports teams try to ‘fix’ transit ahead of downtown arena opening (SacBee 2015-08-18)
• Is Sacramento Light Rail Safe? (SacBee 2015-08-17)
• Backseat Driver: Sacramento’s central city residents want parking rights protected (SacBee 2015-08-17)
• Local train stations … through a photographer’s eyes (slideshow) (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-08-17)

A very slow news week, at least for local transportation.

• Sacramento, Elk Grove to launch ‘Rider Watch’ program on new light-rail line (SacBee 2015-08-11); Back-Seat Driver: “Rider Watch” Planned For New Light Rail Line (SacBee 2015-08-12)

• Whole Foods, school reopening signal downtown Sacramento growth (SacBee 2015-08-08)
• Midtown Whole Foods gets unanimous thumbs up from City Council (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-08-07); Midtown Sacramento Whole Foods project approved (SacBee 2015-08-07)
• UPDATE: District votes to reopen Washington Elementary for residents, commuters’ kids (SacBee 2015-08-07)
• Cyclists rally for tougher sentencing of man accused of hitting, killing cyclist a year ago (SacBee 2015-08-06)
• Davis, California – the American city which fell in love with the bicycle (The Guardian 2015-08-03)
• Mike Wiley: He’s steering regional transit on a new route (Sacramento Business Journal video, subscriber content, 2015-07-30)

• Sacramento police say bait bikes’ crime-fighting role goes beyond deterring bicycle thefts (SacBee 2015-08-02)
• Ed Goldman: It’s going to cost more to park downtown as the city offers better amenities. So what? (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-07-31)
• New light-rail artwork to add character to Sacramento commute (SacBee 2015-07-30)
• Here’s what rail officials need to run 10 daily trains between Sacramento and Roseville (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-07-29)
• Sacramento police say man is serial bait bike thief (SacBee 2015-07-27)
• Editorial: Cost of parking about to rise, aiding arena (SacBee 2015-07-27)

• Businesses react to proposed downtown parking changes (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-07-24)
• Downtown Sacramento parking rates likely to rise (SacBee 2015-07-24)
• Projects bringing big changes to Old Sacramento (KCRA 2015-07-23)
• Developers seek more commercial, less housing in rail yard project (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-07-23)
• Fulcrum is planning its next neighborhood in West Sac’s Bridge District (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-07-23)
• Sacramento’s downtown parking nightmare (Sacramento News & Review 2014-07-23)
• Sacramento County Approves New Development Code (SacCounty News 2015-07-22); Five things to know about Sacramento County’s revised development code (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-07-24)
• Republicans open to new road fees — with strings attached (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-07-22)
• Developer plans big residential project for downtown Roseville (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-07-21)
• Planning for a bridge from Broadway to West Sacramento gets underway (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-07-20)
• Back-Seat Driver: ‘Yellow Alerts’ proposed to combat California’s hit-and-run scourge (SacBee 2015-07-20)

• Sac City schools approves venture with La Familia, community collaborative at former school sites (SacBee 2015-07-18)
• Old Greyhound depot, other blighted Sacramento sites may get makeovers (SacBee 2015-07-17)
• Next R Street? Many builders and brokers are betting on Broadway (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-07-15)
• Major changes to parking in Sacramento could mean higher prices, stiffer restrictions (Sacramento News & Review 2015-07-16)
• Sacramento Commons project receives City Council approval (SacBee 2015-07-15); Five things you need to know about Sacramento Commons (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-07-15)
• Hundreds mourn Afghan refugee killed in Sacramento while biking (SacBee 2015-07-15)
• Developers sought for ideas on improving blighted neighborhood (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-07-14)

• Sacramento’s riverfront is going to waste (SacBee 2015-06-28)
• Sacramento takes next step on railyard hospital, soccer stadium (SacBee 2015-06-26)
• Kaiser deal signals new direction for Sacramento’s downtown rail yard (SacBee 2015-06-26); Kaiser deal delivers jump-start for rail yard development (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-26)
• Back-Seat Driver: Will this never-ending road project finally finish? (SacBee 2015-06-26)
• Midtown Whole Foods project takes big step forward (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-25); Planning panel to consider mixed-use project in midtown featuring Whole Foods market (SacBee 2015-06-25)
• Governor supports Tower Bridge ownership switch (SacBee 2015-06-25)
• Opinion: Will California use congestion to coerce motorists? (SacBee 2015-06-23)

• Davis to install electronic bike lockers to help solve train storage problems (SacBee 2015-06-20)
• Study: Hunger for talent is driving businesses out of suburbs around the nation (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-19)
• Sprawl on (Sacramento News & Review 2015-06-18)
• State to give Tower Bridge away? (SacBee 2015-06-18)
• Under pressure to approve single-family homes, Rocklin to scratch mixed-use plans (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-18)
• Ways Californians might be taxed under transportation plan (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-17)
• Enough already, get bikes off sidewalks (SacBee 2015-06-17)
• Builders, start your engines: Natomas construction ban is officially history (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-16); god help us
• Washington Elementary School set to reopen in 2016 in midtown Sacramento (SacBee 2015-06-16)

In the time I’ve been creating these weekly news summaries, I have been linking to articles about bicyclist and pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries. I’m going to stop doing so. The real carnage that happens on our roadways involves motor vehicles. Research indicates that the motor vehicle crash rates per mile and per trip are actually much higher than for bicyclists and pedestrians, though it is also true that crashes often have higher consequences for bicyclists and pedestrians. Linking to bicyclist and pedestrian involved crashes while not covering motor vehicle crashes (with other vehicles and with fixed objects) gives the impression that bicycling and walking are dangerous, which discourages people from those modes of transportation. It is also true that only some crashes show up in the Sacramento Bee and on the local media, when the crash is spectacular, is a hit-and-run, or occurs on a slow news day. So the links never accurately represented what was going on out on the roadways. I will continue to cover transportation and development issues.

I am also staring into my summer vacation, some of which will be in wilderness far from Internet access, so the posts this summer will be erratic until August.

Transportation

• Marconi Avenue is not pedestrian friendly (SacBee 2015-06-12)
• Freeport Boulevard will open for bicyclists and pedestrians during road closure through September 15 (City of Sacramento City Express 2015-06-09)

Development

• Curtis Park: Fuel center approved for Curtis Park Village (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-12); Curtis Park residents fuming over gas station (SacBee 2015-06-11); Curtis Park residents fueled up for gas station fight (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-11)
• Sacramento Commons: Planning Commission recommends approval for proposed Sacramento Commons (SacBee 2015-06-12);Planning commission approves Sacramento Commons (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-12); Controversial proposal for downtown high-rises goes to Sacramento planning commission (SacBee 2015-06-11); Sacramento Commons high-rise redevelopment back at planning commission (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-11)
• Editorial: No on Curtis Park gas station, yes on downtown housing (SacBee 2015-06-11)
• Sacramento seeks to demolish, rebuild public housing projects(SacBee 2015-06-11)
• Apartment project with edgy design adds to potent mix in West Sac (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-10)
• Developer proposes 270-unit apartment project for Davis (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-09)
• Sacramento developer plans housing at Sacramento Bee parking structure (SacBee 2015-06-09); Developer’s ambitious idea for midtown: Building on top of a parking structure (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-10)
• How Sacramento hopes to make mayor’s 10,000-home promise come true (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-08)

Carnage

• Hit-and-run driver kills pedestrian in Arden Arcade (SacBee 2015-06-03); 18-year-old driver arrested in death of pedestrian on Marconi Avenue (SacBee 2015-06-05)
• Woman struck and killed on Highway 99 in Yuba City (SacBee 2015-06-03)

Streetcar

• Opinion: Streetcar voters couldn’t see where we’re going (SacBee 2015-06-07)
• It’s time for Plan B on streetcar project, if there is one (SacBee 2014-06-04)
• After defeat, streetcar advocates vow to continue push (SacBee 2014-06-04)
• Councilman: Anxiety over costs, changing neighborhood may have doomed streetcar (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-03)
• What Plan B might look like: Potential streetcar funding options (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-03)
• Sacramento streetcar funding plan appears headed to ballot defeat (SacBee 2015-06-03)
• Streetcar measure looks headed to defeat (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-02)
• Backer says there’s no Plan B if streetcar vote fails (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-06-02)

Other

• Developer plans multiblock housing complex in Sacramento’s midtown (SacBee 2015-06-04)
• Cyclists angered by Freeport Boulevard closure (SacBee 2015-06-02); Sacramento Bike Riders Complain About Road Closure (Fox40 2015-06-02)
• New R Street complex sees artists working, living and collaborating (SacBee 2015-06-01)