{"id":458211,"date":"2026-09-09T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458211\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:43:07","slug":"sacramento-top-stories-transit-buses-lavender-heights-safety-ca-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458211\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento top stories: Transit buses, Lavender Heights safety, CA traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">California ranked as the third most congested state in the country in 2025, with drivers in major cities losing more than 100 hours a year to traffic, <a data-ylk=\"slk:according to the TomTom Traffic Index;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/transportation\/article317092506.html?mrfhud=true#storylink=var-wtk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to the TomTom Traffic Index<\/a>. Los Angeles ranked 25th worst globally, with drivers losing 83 hours during rush hour annually, while San Francisco had the sixth worst congestion in North America. Sacramento drivers spend 68.7% of their time on highways, and nearly one-third of California&#8217;s roads are in poor condition, the American Society of Civil Engineers said. Transportation for America argues that widening highways can actually increase congestion by encouraging more driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California ranked as the third most congested state in the country in 2025, with drivers in major cities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[84243,9458,2041,40419,98257,121,180763,123,122,4963,74860,172738,16094],"class_list":["post-458211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-badlands","tag-california-air-resources-board","tag-community-safety","tag-compressed-natural-gas","tag-jessica-gonzalez","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-city-hall","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-regional-transit","tag-traffic-congestion","tag-transit-agencies","tag-zero-emission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}