• Developers and leaders see a great future — with lots of work — for urban core (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-05-29)
• Elk Grove won’t move from bus to light-rail after all (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-05-29); Elk Grove to leave bus service unchanged; proposed light-rail plan unpopular (SacBee 2015-05-28)
• Underpass to open door to new east Sacramento housing (SacBee 2015-05-29)
• Stations Identified For Proposed Bike Share Plan (CapRadio 2015-05-27)
• Sacramento bicyclist escapes serious injury in brush with light-rail train (SacBee 2015-05-27)
• Sacramento police seek vehicle involved in April collision that killed pedestrian (SacBee 2015-05-26)
• Proposed Bike Share Program Would Stretch From Davis To Sacramento (CBS Sacramento 2015-05-26)

Other

• She can’t visit the ghost bike, not yet (SacBee 2015-05-24)
• Successful Bike Program Changes Lives (Sacramento County 2015-05-21)

Transportation

• Back-seat Driver: We answer your questions about airport food, mystery potholes & Watt congestion (SacBee 2015-05-22)
• Is streetcar line worth the money? (SacBee 2015-05-20)
• West Sac hoping to add some light rail to streetcar line (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-05-19)
• Going Home: Creating Bike-Friendly Communities on California’s Highway 50 (Alta Planning + Design 2015-05-19)

Development

• Township Nine marks apartment openings, looks to next projects (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-05-18); Officials celebrate new affordable housing complex in Sacramento’s River District (SacBee 2015-05-19); 185 space garage for 180 units? Me thinks they overbuilt for an affordable development.
• Developer proposes row houses near Ice Blocks in midtown (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-05-18)
• Big R Street project pushes ahead (SacBee 2015-05-18)

Carnage

• Bicyclist hit, killed by truck during Davis Double Century ride (SacBee 2015-05-17)

Other

• Growing school districts consider higher developer fees (SacBee 2015-05-17)
• Sacramento’s Broadway area hopes to reinvent itself (SacBee 2015-05-15)
• Opinion: Drawing a line with sidewalks and cyclists (SacBee 2015-05-13); Public nudity ban OK’d by Sacramento committee; includes bicycling on sidewalks (SacBee 2015-05-13)
• Sacramento RT’s ‘Long-Awaited’ Blue Line Rail Extension on Track to Connect Region (Metro 2015-05-12)
• Elk Grove gets serious about building a multimodal transit station (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-05-12)
• Rainbow crosswalks OK’d for Sacramento’s Lavender Heights (SacBee 2015-05-15); Rainbow crosswalks planned for Sacramento’s Lavender Heights (SacBee 2015-05-12)
• Growing California cap-and-trade fund attracts surge of spending proposals (SacBee 2015-05-11)

• Sacramento wants to grow; will drought say no? (SacBee 2015-05-10)
• Sunday bike race means downtown street closures; Bus fares up? (SacBee 2015-05-08)
• Tour of California rolls in, bringing $2.7M to Sacramento (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-05-07); Prepare for 2015 Tour of California’s sweep through Sacramento region (SacBee 2015-05-07)
• Sacramento News & Review 2015-05-07: Ride the line: Is Sacramento ready for streetcar?; Streetcar is Sacramento’s history and future; Can Sacramento afford streetcar, or will it shortchange poor communities’ transit options?; Streetcar is Sacramento’s history and future; Sacramento’s light-rail system struggles to overcome its image problem, deal with fare-evaders
• Meals with Wheels (Comstock’s 2015-05-07)
• Fate of proposed streetcar system is now in the hands of voters (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-05-06)
• Sacramento County zoning update would streamline some development applications (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-05-06)
• CADA gets go-ahead for more housing; Sacramento may have your unclaimed money (SacBee 2015-05-04)
• Small is beautiful: Mini-developments popping up in Sacramento’s central city (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-05-04)
• Sacramento streetcar plan up for vote this month (SacBee 2015-05-04); Payoff from streetcar line is worth a little risk (SacBee 2015-05-04)

• Back-Seat Driver: City considering new set of ‘road diets’ (SacBee 2015-05-01)
• It fakes a village (Sacramento News & Review 2015-04-30)
• NIMBY, no more (Sacramento News & Review 2015-04-30)
• Governor calls for aggressive pollution reduction order (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-04-29); Jerry Brown issues a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target (SacBee 2015-04-30)
• Builders supportive but cautious on affordable housing proposal (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-04-28)
• What are the most family friendly parts of Sacramento County? (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-04-27); what this data mostly shows is that being rich and white correlates positively with being rich and white; commute time is tracked but apparently play no significant part in the ratings, so a long commute time (equating to lack of family time) is apparently not an issue

This week’s issue of the Sacramento News & Review (2015-04-30) has a supplement titled “The NIMBYs.” So far as I can tell, this supplement is not available online, so you’ll need to grab yourself a copy before they disappear.

Carnage

• Bicyclist dies in south Sacramento County collision (SacBee 2015-04-21)

Other

• Sacramento police target pedestrians in Friday night safety campaign (SacBee 2015-04-24); how about educating drivers about their legal and moral responsibility to yield to pedestrians in marked and unmarked crosswalks?
• Sacramento considers developer fees to pay for affordable housing (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-04-24)
• Flights and fliers on the rise (SacBee 2015-04-23); streetcar info in the body
• CVS design turns its back on Franklin Boulevard (Sacramento News & Review 2015-04-23); suburban design is like a zombie – just when you think you’ve killed it, it lurches forward again
• The Mill at Broadway targets millennials as home buyers (SacBee 2015-04-20)
• Regional Transit selling surplus property in Land Park (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-04-20)

Carnage

• Pedestrian killed by hit-and-run driver in South Sacramento (SacBee 2015-04-13)

Other

• Fare talk (Sacramento News & Review 2015-04-16)
• Back-Seat Driver: Should all cyclists wear helmets? (SacBee 2015-04-16)
• Small traffic fines can lead to big problems for some Californians (SacBee 2015-04-16)
• Historic downtown train depot mural getting a major face-lift (SacBee 2015-04-14)

Carnage

• CHP: Man hit in lane of oncoming Sacramento deputy’s SUV (SacBee 2015-04-06)

Other

• Which cities are best or worst for commuters? (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-04-10)
• Take a tour of Sacramento’s proposed streetcar route (SacBee 2015-04-08)
• Sacramento County approves $3 million for downtown streetcar project (SacBee 2015-04-08); Sacramento County approves $3 million for streetcar funding (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-04-08)
• Light rail gets a makeover as Regional Transit tackles business concerns (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-04-06)
• Natomas redux: Can Sacramento build a balanced community? (SacBee 2015-04-06)

Carnage

• Mother, 3 kids hospitalized after being hit by vehicle in Roseville (SacBee 2015-04-03)
• West Sacramento pedestrian hit, killed by big rig (SacBee 2015-04-03)

Other

• New buses, seats to help give Sacramento Regional Transit a cleaner look (SacBee 2015-04-05)
• A whole mixed-use project made out of shipping containers? That’s the plan (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-04-03)
• All Aboard? (Comstock’s 2015-04-03)
• Back-Seat Driver: Sacramento street closures are on the rise; so are parking woes (SacBee 2015-04-03)
• Natomas building moratorium lifted (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-04-01)
• Mayor gives first glimpse of housing initiative (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-03-31)

Publishing a day early because I’m off on a week-long vacation with little to no Internet access.

Carnage

• Police release photo of car that struck Sacramento bicyclist (SacBee 2015-03-25); Man riding bike killed in hit-and-run in Sacramento (KCRA 2015-03-24); Bicyclist dies after collision in Sacramento’s Robla area (SacBee 2015-03-25)

Other

• Folsom approves higher park fees on development (SacBee 2015-03-26); even with the increase, taxpayers are on the hook for $14 million to pay for parks, which home buyers should be paying for
• Taken for a ride (Sacramento News & Review 2015-03-26)
• Sacramento paves way for redevelopment on 16th Street (SacBee 2015-03-25); Plan for delays and detours with intersection closure in midtown (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-03-25)
• Where Sacramento ranks on list of bike-friendly cities (Sacramento Business Journal 2015-03-24)
• River Cats secure more space for free parking (SacBee 2015-03-23)