• California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update (Streetsblog LA 2014-04-18)
• Why Sacramento isn’t bike-friendly—and how the city could become a biketopia (Sacramento News & Review 2014-04-17)
• Old Florin street upgrades meant to attract business (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-04-16)
• Township Nine close to having first residents (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-04-16)
• Grant for Ubuntu Green will help start development arm (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-04-15)
• CA Sen. Steinberg Proposes New Spending Plan for Cap-and-Trade Revenue (Streetsblog 2014-04-14)
• Development measures circulating in El Dorado County (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-04-14)
• What adding a women’s race to Amgen Tour means for Sacramento (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-04-14)

Fix 50 (This is only a fraction of the Fix 50 articles on SacBee and other media)

• Fix50 poses serious questions; here are some answers (SacBee 2014-04-20)
• Assume everyone is packing: Tips for surviving Fix 50 (SacBee 2014-04-19)
• Will there be gridlock back to Interstate 5? (SacBee 2014-04-19)
• Sacramento employers prepare for Fix50 freeway gridlock (SacBee 2014-04-18)
• Should I try Fair Oaks Boulevard during Fix 50? (SacBee 2014-04-18)
• State workers feel impact of Fix 50 project (SacBee 2014-04-18)
• Caltrans to commuters: Do your homework this weekend (SacBee 2014-04-18)
• Back-seat Driver: Caltrans’ Fix 50 project won’t add new lanes (SacBee 2014-04-18)
• Commuter trains, bus systems gear up for Fix50 crowds (SacBee 2014-04-16)
• >Fix50: Will travelers get to airport on time? (SacBee 2014-04-16)

Posting a day early because I’m off to the Internet-free wilds of southern Utah for the week.

Transportation

• Elk Grove looks to build train station (SacBee 2014-04-12)
• Breaking Ground on Franklin Blvd Project (County of Sacramento 2014-04-11); South Sacramento street begins revitalization after soup plant closure (SacBee 2014-04-12)
• On streetcars, more light rail and the state of Sacramento’s regional transit (Sacramento News & Review 2014-04-10)
• RT head says Caltrans leaving locals in lurch during Fix50 project (SacBee 2014-04-10)
• Viewpoints: Looking for ways to improve Regional Transit (SacBee 2014-04-10)
• Caltrans to reimburse city up to $1.3 million for congestion relief during Fix50 (SacBee 2014-04-08)
• Q&A: Freeway closures, delays, detours through June (SacBee 2014-04-07)
• Old Sacramento faces new challenges from construction (SacBee 2014-04-07)
• Old Sacramento’s riverfront boardwalk is history (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-04-07)

Development

• Sacramento City Council OKs residential project to replace Sutter Memorial Hospital (SacBee 2014-04-09)
• Infill project Tapestri Square on pace to sell out by year’s end (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-04-08)
• Retail included in Sacramento Commons proposal (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-04-07)

Other

• Back-seat Driver: Local road forecast for April – congestion  (SacBee 2014-04-03)

Development

• McKinley Village proposal creates traffic fight with neighbors (SacBee 2014-04-03)
• Report: Sacramento would work better with less sprawl (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-04-02)
• Downtown arena project nearing last hurdles (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-04-02)
• Developer plans residential tower near Memorial Auditorium (SacBee 2014-04-02)
• Developer revises plan for 7-story mixed use building on I Street (SacBee 2014-04-01)

Carnage

• Bicyclist near Winters killed by hit-and-run driver (SacBee 2014-03-28)
• Bicyclist dies in collision with car in south Sacramento (SacBee 2014-03-25); Bicyclist in South Sacramento crash identified by coroner (SacBee 2014-03-26)

Other

• Back-seat Driver: Light rail’s chance to shine? (SacBee 2014-03-28)
• Caltrans says 1-hour delays possible during W-X freeway project (SacBee 2014-03-28)Caltrans alters W-X freeway project plans; hopes to reduce congestion (SacBee 2014-03-27)
• Roundabout is latest in downtown Roseville makeover (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-03-26)
• RT wants to add buses, light rail trips during Highway 50 fix (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-03-25)
• Editorial: Caltrans must space out major Sacramento road projects (SacBee 2014-03-25)
• Exposures: I Care: Youngsters revel in his trail-blazing (SacBee 2014-03-24)

Development

• Sacramento arena plan goes to Planning Commission April 10 (SacBee 2014-03-28)
• Angelides not laying odds on McKinley Village vote (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-03-28); City Planning Commission gives McKinley Village a green light (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-03-28)
• Sacramento Commons project worries neighbors (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-03-28)
• Former Towers site — known as that hole in the ground — to get new look from CIM (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-03-27)
• New project at Capitol Towers site would include two 25-story towers (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-03-26)
• Possibility for old arena: Hospital? (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-03-25)
• Work at The Elan sign of trend? (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-03-24)

• Will Sacramento freeway closures cause a “Carmageddon”? (SacBee 2014-03-21) – would it do any good to point out that a great alternative exists, the SacRT light rail Gold Line?
• The A.V. Club: How the automobile will reshape our cities, again (Sacramento News & Review 2014-03-20)
• Mallet to the face: Christine Carrisosa, bicycle polo player (Sacramento News & Review 2014-03-20)
• El Dorado County voters may decide latest growth fight (SacBee 2013-03-19)
• Hundreds of years of dust are cleaned away (City of Sacramento 2014-03-17)

• Editorial: Light-rail killings in Sacramento are wake-up call for Regional Transit (SacBee 2014-03-15)
• Sacramento supervisors delay vote on connector road after farmers protest (SacBee 2014-03-11)

Carnage

• Coroner’s Office identifies pedestrian killed Sunday in Rancho Cordova collision (SacBee 2014-03-04)

Other

• Capital Southeast Connector ready for a vote (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-03-07)
• Cohousing project proposed for Fair Oaks (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-03-04)

Carnage

• CHP seeks information on Carmichael bicycle crash (SacBee 2014-02-26)
• Pedestrian dies after being hit by truck on Highway 49 near Auburn (SacBee 2014-02-26); Pedestrian killed in Placer County crash identified (SacBee 2014-02-26)

Other

• Back-seat Driver: Got a gas guzzler? Dump it for dollars (SacBee 2014-02-28)
• Groundbreaking of Johnny Cash trail, bridge in Folsom (SacBee 2014-02-27)
• Estimate to acquire private land, construct Sacramento riverfront trail — $14.5 million (SacBee 2014-02-26)
• Streetcar system nearly funded for planning (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-02-25)
• Bike shop moving from Elk Grove to Sacramento (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-02-24)

Note: I am fairly sure that there was a pedestrian fatality in West Sacramento this week, but I’ve been unable to find any news item on it. There was a bicyclist – motor vehicle crash in Sacramento, but, again, no news item. This has made me realize that a lot of bicyclist and pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries are ignored by the local news media.

• Sacramento plans to install 10 bike corrals (SacBee 2014-02-23)
• Editorial: City needs to refocus on completing Sacramento River Parkway (SacBee 2014-02-22)
  
• Back-seat Driver: New parking at crowded train depot? (SacBee 2014-02-21)
• County Awarded for First-Ever Green Street (County of Sacramento 2014-02-21)
• Bait bikes proven way to deter bike theft (City of Sacramento 2014-02-20)
• Details on the Amgen Tour of California route (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-02-20)
• Fatal Land Park collision sparks concern over speeding (SacBee 2014-02-18

Carnage

• Vehicle hits pedestrians in south Sac, kills one (SacBee 2014-02-15)
• Driver arrested after pedestrian hit and killed in Arden Arcade (SacBee 2014-02-11)

Other

• Viewpoints: A different vision for train travel (SacBee 2014-02-15)
• Train station’s potential as public market (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-02-14)
• Sacramento RT looking for new ways to serve future riders (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-02-14)
• Folsom hears construction a comin’ on Johnny Cash Trail (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-02-14)
• McKinley Village debate zeroes in on nearly $30 million tunnel (Sacramento News & Review 2014-02-13)
• Back-seat Driver: Parking tickets, bike lanes and recreation trails have readers upset and confused (SacBee 2014-02-14)
• Housing plans piling up: Which will get built? (SacBee 2014-02-12)
• Sacramento County plans transit to serve future Jackson Highway developments (SacBee 2014-02-10)
• Hyatt Regency to start renting bikes (Sacramento Business Journal 2014-02-10)