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Sacramento Transportation News:
Back-seat Driver: Sacramentans love to vacation at beach
Memorial Day weekend is ahead, and that means it's summer driving season.
Tony Bizjak 
Gas price rises to $4.24 in Sacramento area
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.
A customer fills up his tank at a local gas station in Miami, Friday, May 27, 2011. With gas prices still topping the $4-a-gallon mark in much of the country and forcing holiday travelers to spend more on fill-ups this Memorial Day weekend, some are opting to to stay closer to home.(AP Photo/ Alan Diaz) 
Bicycle advocates chalk up successes of Bike Month
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.
Cyclists stop at the bicyclist fueling station outside of Old Soul Coffee and Edible Pedal on Bike to Work Day in Sacramento on Thursday morning, May 17, 2012. The "Engergizer Stateion" was hosted by the Employees of the California Department of Public Health and Department of Health Care Services in the alleyway between L Street and Capitol and 17th.
A bike valet stays busy during Capitol BikeFest earlier this month at the state Capitol. 
Sacto 911: Cell phone tickets written in April in California up 5,000
The number of drivers cited for using their cell phones while driving in April was up over a year earlier.
A motorist uses a cell phone while driving in Sacramento on Tuesday, August 10, 2010. 
Sacramento airport applies to use private contractors for security screeners
Sacramento International Airport wants to dump its federal security screeners and replace them with private contractors.
TSA agents Michelle Clay, left, and Tiffany Pluciennik check passenger IDs at the security checkpoint inside Sacramento International's Terminal B. The airport wants to use private contractors to conduct security checks; 16 other airports already do.
A TSA agent watches as a woman is body-scanned in the security checkpoint at Sacramento International Airport earlier this week. San Francisco's airport uses private screeners, but the TSA chooses the equipment and how it is used. 
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