• What more can we do to stop teens from dying in car crashes? (SacBee 2016-10-29); Foon misses the elephant in the room, which is that providing teens with alternatives to driving, such as frequent transit service and walkable and bikeable neighborhoods, would probably do more to reduce teen deaths than any training or graduated licensing; it is the driving addiction that kills
• Sacramento could be among first to test fleet of self-driving vehicles (SacBee 2016-10-27)
• Sacramento firm Siemens nabs another big light rail deal (SacBee 2016-10-27)
• Planning Commission endorses ambitious downtown railyard plan (SacBee 2016-10-25)
• Sacramento transportation sales tax mailers stir questions (SacBee 2016-10-24)
• Raley’s shopping center on Freeport Boulevard gets planning commission’s approval (SacBee 2016-10-24); no drive-thru restaurants, bicyclist and pedestrian accommodation, less parking, all are a move towards a less suburban-sprawl design

• Placer County conservatives at odds on transportation sales tax plan (SacBee 2016-10-21)
• Ride along (Sacramento News & Review 2016-10-20)
• Folsom annexation blues (Sacramento News & Review 2016-10-20)
• The most important Sacramento issue on November’s ballot is one you may have overlooked (SacBee 2016-10-19)
• Transportation Sales Tax Measures on the Ballot: Sacramento’s Measure B (Streetsblog Cal 2016-10-17)
• Back-seat Driver: Sacramento’s new plan to make room for street sweepers (SacBee 2016-10-17)
• Is downtown Sacramento’s ‘wart’ about to be removed? (SacBee 2016-10-17)

• Are Sacramento voters willing to pay to repave roads, upgrade transit? (SacBee 2016-10-15)

• City makes it easier for downtown residents to throw a dinner party (SacBee 2016-10-13)

• Ticket to deride: Sacramento labor group, RT clash over new ride-sharing partnership (Sacramento News & Review 2016-10-13)
• Vote. Like our future depend on it… (Sacramento News & Review 2016-10-13)
• RT offers free light-rail rides to Maroon 5 concert (SacBee 2016-10-12)
• What happened to that traffic jam Golden 1 Center was going to cause downtown? (SacBee 2016-10-09)

Note: It is ironic that most of the news articles over the last few months have been about parking. I’m car free and so parking is irrelevant to me personally and I can only shake my head sadly at how much energy and trauma people create around parking. Nevertheless, parking policy does strongly impact the livability of a place, and free storage of personal vehicles on the street seems to be the last bastion of the NIMBY worldview.

• Sacramento light rail announces arena partnership with Uber, Lyft, Yellow Cab (SacBee 2016-10-03)
• Back-Seat Driver: Fans got to new downtown arena every which way Saturday nite (SacBee 2016-10-03)

• Soapbox: Hear the train coming (SacBee 2016-10-01)

• Editorials: Bite the bullet for Measure B sales tax (SacBee 2016-09-27)
• Back-Seat Driver: How will disabled people, bicyclists, arena workers get to Golden 1 Center? (SacBee 2016-09-26)

• Yolo, Roseville, Sacramento transit agencies offer special service to downtown arena (SacBee 2016-09-22)
• Public transit champion tapped to lead transportation planning in region (SacBee 2016-09-21)
• New light-rail app allows you to photograph, report suspicious behavior (SacBee 2016-09-21)
• Want to avoid drunk drivers? Here’s where they get into the most accidents in Sacramento County (SacBee 2016-09-20)
• Steinberg spending leftover money from mayor’s race to push transportation tax (SacBee 2016-09-19)

• Streets to close around Golden 1 Center before, after arena events (SacBee 2016-09-16)
• Say no to sprawl (Sacamento News & Review 2016-09-15)
• Trains a treasured part of Sacramento – until they snarl traffic (SacBee 2016-09-14)
• Shuttle will ferry Roseville fans to Sacramento Kings games at new arena (SacBee 2016-09-13)
• Back-Seat Driver: City tightening parking restrictions in residential zones surrounding Sacramento’s new arena (SacBee 2016-09-12)

• Transit agency launches ‘how to’ website for arena light-rail riders (SacBee 2016-09-09)
• McKinley Village set for big ‘reveal’ this weekend (SacBee 2016-09-09)
• Bait bike arrest downtown marks 41st such case of the year (SacBee 2016-09-06)
• Back-Seat Driver: City creates new entrance to Old Sacramento (SacBee 2016-09-05)

• An invitation to ride Sacramento’s ‘new’ RT (SacBee 2016-09-04)
• Tougher enforcement leads to fewer fare cheats on Sacramento’s light rail (SacBee 2016-09-01)
• New entrance/exit to Old Sacramento debuts Thursday (Sacramento Business Journal 2016-09-01)
• Sorry Sacramento, it’s time to start feeding the meter at night (SacBee 2016-08-31)
• City to UP: We’ll trade you C Street for Ramona Avenue (SacBee 2016-08-29)
• September issue of Inside… has articles by Craig Powell, Eye on Sacramento, who signed argument against Measure B, and Walt Siefert, who signed rebuttal to argument for Measure B; links are apparently not available online so you will have to read on paper

• Sacramento RT offers help to homeless light rail passengers (SacBee 2016-08-26)
• Bill to install breathalyzers in DUI offenders’ cars goes to Jerry Brown (SacBee 2016-08-25)
• City Council approves downtown parking rate hike (Sacramento Business Journal 2016-08-24)
• Back-Seat Driver: Sacramento light rail agency wants to make station ‘naming rights’ deals (SacBee 2016-08-22)