Transportation

Sacramento Regional Transit has broken ground on one of its most ambitious projects ever, a $270 million southern rail extension to Cosumnes River College. Work began this month on two bridges that will carry trains over creeks and a major south Sacramento intersection.

It took more than a half-century, but this megalopolis that long ago turned its back on cheap street trolleys like the Red Car in favor of car-choked concrete superhighways is finally getting its rail mojo back.

A builder of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge failed to disclose that a 19-foot section of concrete in the foundation of the span's signature tower had not hardened before it was tested.

The California Department of Transportation's effort to reduce the visual effects of a road-widening project on a mountain community is well-intended, but some area homeowners are questioning the wisdom of installing wood veneer on a roadside sound wall.

When it comes to issuing citations for parking meter violations in Sacramento, do some people get special treatment? Yes.

Sacramento's Siemens manufacturing plant will build 18 of its S70 light-rail vehicles for TriMet in Portland, Ore., under a $73 million contract being announced today.

New-vehicle registrations statewide rose nearly 18 percent in this year's first quarter compared with the year-ago period, according to the latest report released by the Sacramento-based California New Car Dealers Association.

AAA Northern California estimates that 4.2 million Californians plan on traveling 50 miles or more during the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, a 1.5 percent increase compared with last year.

Brian Green is light rail's self-chosen cultural anthropologist. BlackBerry in hand, he taps out short, on-the-spot reports to his 600-plus friends on Facebook.

Progress in getting West Coast refineries back online pushed Sacramento-area gasoline prices slightly lower over the past week.

Four months after a California assemblyman was cited and released for carrying a gun into an airport, the Assembly passed legislation Monday that would require offenders to be taken into custody in such situations.

Memorial Day weekend is ahead, and that means it's summer driving season.

In the eight years since the "May Is Bike Month" campaign began, area cyclists have ridden millions of miles while demonstrating that bikes are, among other things, an easy solution to complex problems.

The number of drivers cited for using their cell phones while driving in April was up over a year earlier.

While much of the rest of the country has been seeing relief at the gas pumps over the past two weeks, motorists in the Sacramento area and throughout the West Coast have been taking it on the chin.

The U.S. Forest Service's Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit has released a draft decision for 2012 capital improvement projects at Heavenly Ski Resort.

Sacramento International Airport wants to dump its federal security screeners and replace them with private contractors.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned California lawmakers Thursday not to wait until fall for a vote on high-speed rail, urging its approval in a budget vote next month.

A state study released today shows a dramatic rise in the numbers of young people who use cell phones while driving.

You know things are tough when $4.21-a-gallon gas is considered an improvement.

A man was taken to a local hospital in critical condition late Tuesday afternoon after he was extricated from beneath a light-rail car in downtown Sacramento.

Well, it felt good while it lasted.

AAA's annual survey on the cost of owning and operating a typical passenger car in the United States shows a 2 percent increase over 2011.

California motorists, watching the price of gasoline approach $4 a gallon, were cutting back at the gas pumps to start this year

It's bike season, and Sacramento cyclists are pushing their case to make the region and California more bike-friendly.

The Sacramento-based Maita Automotive Group has added to its dealership empire along Auburn Boulevard.

A new digital red-light photo-enforcement camera system will go into operation today on Calvine Road at the northbound Highway 99 offramp in south Sacramento County.

Another week, another small victory for consumers at Sacramento-area gasoline pumps.

Last weekend, Louie Kraushar received the Federal Aviation Administration's Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, which recognizes pilots who have at least 50 consecutive years of safe flight operations in the United States.