CEQA

• New “Kings Arena” CEQA Bill Would Still Nix LOS in “Transit Priority Areas” (Streetsblog 2013-09-13)
• Arena CEQA bill draws criticism (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-09-13)
• Arena bill sails through Legislature, goes to Brown (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-09-13)
• Steinberg shelves main environmental measure to aid arena effort (SacBee 2013-09-12)
• CEQA reform passes another hurdle (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-09-11)
• Viewpoints: CEQA reform is no longer stuck in traffic (SacBee 2013-09-10)

Other

• Dan Morain: Car insurance magnate pushes measures to make pot more available (SacBee 2013-09-15); The Conversation: Drug-impaired driving, often overshadowed, inflicts a deadly toll (SacBee 2013-09-15); note that these are opinion pieces, not factual reporting
• Sacramento, West Sac desire streetcar ideas at workshops (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-09-12)
• Friends of teen killed in traffic accident win approval for new signal (SacBee 2013-09-11)
• Sacramento police targeting high collision areas (SacBee 2013-09-10)

Carnage

• Yuba City pedestrian injured in suspected DUI crash (SacBee 2013-09-03)

Legislation update (see Legislation page for more info)

• AB 1371, the three foot bill, passed the legislature and is before the governor; he has not indicated whether he will sign it or not, but he vetoed the previous two bills

Other

• Suncreek development plan up for look by Rancho Cordova (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-09-06)
• Sacramento police use bait bikes to catch thieves (SacBee 2013-09-07); Sacramento Police Looking to Reel in Thieves with Bait Bicycles (KTXL Fox 40, 2013-09-05)
• See Sacramento via Jim Brown (Sacramento Press 2013-09-05); Jim is the Executive Director of Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates
• The Public Eye: Bid to have property owners pay for sidewalk repairs tabled after Rancho Cordovans protest (SacBee 2013-09-08); Rancho Cordova kicks sidewalk ordinance to the curb (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-09-05)
• California mass-transit workers get pension reprieve (SacBee 2013-09-04)
• Sacramento City Council mulls changes to low-income housing ordinance (SacBee 2013-09-04)
• Sac City schools open, minus seven elementary campuses (SacBee 2013-09-04)
• Business District Partners with Police Department to Address Bike Thefts in Midtown (Handle District 2013-09-03)
• Cap-and-trade auctions look safer after court ruling (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-09-03)
• DUI crackdown results in 400 arrests in Sacramento County (SacBee 2013-09-03); End-of-summer DUI arrests down in Sacramento County (SacBee 2013-09-02)
• Council vote could lure big-box stores to Meadowview (SacBee 2013-09-03)

• Sustainable Communities (KVIE Studio Sacramento 2013-08-31); with Mayor Christopher Cabaldon of West Sacramento and Bruce Starkweather
• Authorities announce DUI crackdown in Sacramento area for Labor Day weekend (SacBee 2013-08-30)
• Rancho Cordova wants to make sidewalks problem of property owners (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-08-30)
• Vision for 16 Powerhouse: ‘Sustainable, green, luxurious’ (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-08-28); note inclusion of bike racks
• Opinion: On the merits, McKinley Village deserves our support (Sacramento Press 2013-08-28)
• More older drivers, fewer teens behind the wheel in California (SacBee 2013-08-26)

Carnage

• Coroner identifies man killed by light-rail train in Rancho Cordova (2013-08-25)
• UPDATE: Man struck and killed by train in midtown (SacBee 2013-08-21)
• I’m never sure whether to list these walker vs. train and light rail collisions – do they have anything to do with a safe transportation system or not? Since there is rarely followup information in the media, except sometimes the name of the victim, most of these kind of incidents remain ill-defined, and their significance unknown.

Big Box

• Biz leaders cheer city’s big-box vote (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-08-21)
• Sacramento City Council eases restrictions on ‘big-box’ stores (SacBee 2013-08-20)
• Sacramento considers changing big-box rules (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-08-20)
• City Council to vote on superstore policy tonight (SacBee 2013-08-20)
• Editorial: City should dump ‘superstore’ rules (SacBee 2013-08-20)
• [Poll] City to vote on big-box ordinance (Sacramento Press 2013-08-20)
• Sacramento Stonewall Democrats Oppose Repeal of Superstore Ordinance (Sacramento Press 2013-08-20)
• The Walmart fallacy (Sacramento News & Review 2013-08-19)

Other

• Davis housing project must overcome city’s anti-growth streak (SacBee 2013-08-23)
• Another View: McKinley Village will be an asset to Sacramento (SacBee 2013-08-22)
• Caltrans plans project to ease Capital City Freeway bottleneck in east Sacramento (SacBee 2013-08-22)
• California’s Unusual Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases (Atlantic Cities 2013-08-19); the SACOG plan for the Sacramento region is one of three discussed
• Exposures: I Care: Bicycle Kitchen serves up help on a shoestring budget (SacBee 2013-08-19)

• Open Letter to Mayor Johnson and City Council – Do Not Repeal the Superstore Ordinance Sacramento Press 2013-08-18
• Sacramento-area officials seek to take over, develop Jackson Highway (SacBee 2013-08-18)
• Regional transit looks at possible funding shortage with growth surge (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-08-16)
• End of Summer DUI Crackdown- SacPD (Sacramento Press 2013-08-15)
• West Sac awards contract for Barge Canal bridge (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-08-14)
• Feds delay ruling to withhold California’s mass-transit funding (SacBee 2013-08-16); Editorial: Obama official needs to free up transit money (SacBee 2013-08-14); Billions in federal transportation funds riding on California’s new pension law (SacBee 2013-08-13)
• OPINION: Repeal of ‘Big Box’ threatens regional sustainability (Sacramento Press 2013-08-14)
• Viewpoints: Problems with McKinley Village proposal begin with geography (SacBee 2013-08-14)
• GearUp Cycle for Youth Ride, October 12
• RT breaks ground on new Franklin Boulevard station (SacBee 2013-08-14); Sacramento RT starting work on blue line extension (SacBee 2013-08-13)
• The MLS promenade: Whether Sacramento’s best step is toward downtown or the suburbs (Sacramento Press 2013-08-12)
• Addiction to Bike Polo: Dealing with Obsession (Sacramento Press 2013-08-12)

Carnage

• Man dies in Auburn hit-and-run crash (SacBee 2013-08-09)
• Coroner identifies man killed in Woodland hit-and-run crash (SacBee 2013-08-05)

Other

• Will McKinley Village Obstruct Essential State Highway and Rail Projects? (Sacramento Press 2013-08-09)
• On the future of Sacramento’s K Street: The Kay after tomorrow (Sacramento News & Review 2013-08-08); K Street is definitely a place where transportation and development strongly influence each other
• Councilmember Jay Schenirer opposes updates to big-box ordinance (Sacramento Press 2013-08-08)
• City council to consider options for new American River crossings (Sacramento Press 2013-08-07)
• A year later, some still grumble over shifting of Sacramento train tracks (SacBee 2013-08-07)
• SMUD to install fast electric car chargers (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-08-06)
• City should embrace train repair facility (SacBee 2013-08-06)
• Bike update: Green bike lanes going in the Capitol Mall, deadline approaches for bike share program (Sacramento Press 2013-08-05)

Caltrans surveys Sacramento sites for new railyard (SacBee 2013-08-04)

Back-seat Driver: Guy West Bridge to get a face-lift (SacBee 2013-08-02)

Interchange work points to growth hot spots (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-08-02 paywall)

Elkhorn interchange to get widening, stoplight (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-08-01)

Despite changes, labor and neighborhood groups remain opposed to big-box ordinance (Sacramento Press 2013-07-29); for any of you wondering why this is a transportation issue, it is because big box stores generate considerably more motor vehicle trips than do small, locally owned businesses, and they are part of the sprawl development patterns that many places are striving to eliminate

In Sacramento, bicycling buds part of a growing trend (SacBee 2013-07-29)

Bike rack artist Gina Ross fuses functionality with creativity (Sacramento Press 2013-07-9)

Carnage

• Teen bike rider dies in collision near Marysville (SacBee 2013-07-26)

Other

• Superstore “big-box’ ordinance amended to exclude Central City (Sacramento Press 2013-07-26)
• Highway 99 interchanges on schedule (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-07-25)
• Folsom police to keep an eye on pedestrian-related wrongs (SacBee 2013-07-25)
• I-5 interchange on track, Delta Shores development to follow (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-07-24)
• City to move on long-awaited safety improvements for Carlson Corridor (Sacramento Press 2013-07-22)

Carnage

• Driver who killed boy, 6, in Citrus Heights accident gets 15 years (SacBee 2013-07-16)
• Did you see this accident? SacPD needs your help. (Sacramento Press 2013-07-17); Coroner identifies pedestrian fatally hit on Rio Linda Boulevard (SacBee 2013-07-16); Pedestrian killed Sunday crossing Rio Linda Boulevard (SacBee 2013-07-15)

Other

• Recumbent trikes available in Sacramento at AlphaBent (Sacramento Press 2013-07-19)
• On the rise and fall (and rise and fall, again) of Franklin Boulevard (Sacramento News & Review 2013-07-18); Revitalizing North Franklin in the post-Campbell era (Sacramento Press 2013-07-19)
• El Dorado Co. adds interchange to scope of capital connector (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-07-17)
• New Watt Avenue interchange makes room for walkers, bikers and buses (SacBee 2013-07-16)
• Sacramento County plans meetings on Jackson Highway growth (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-07-15)
• How I missed second Saturday because I forgot about light rail (Sacramento Press 2013-07-15)
• Davis lays track for ultra-light rail transit demonstration (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-07-15)
• Folsom to begin talking adding bike, pedestrian access on Bidwell (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-07-15)

Carnage

• Pedestrian killed when hit by truck in Del Paso Heights (SacBee 2013-07-09)

Other

• Sacramento-area bike shops peddle recumbent tricycles to aging pedalers (SacBee 2013-07-14)
• Home builders resume land development in Sacramento region (SacBee 2013-07-13)
• Sac City argues in court against overturning school closures (SacBee 2013-07-12)
• Grocery store addresses design issues with planning commission (Sacramento Press 2013-07-13); Grocery store seeks to expand but some concerned about design (Sacramento Press 2013-07-11)
• McKinley Village/Sutter’s Landing/Railyard – discussion thread (Sacramento Press 2013-07-08)