Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:46 AM PST on November 14, 2017
- An urban stadium for the A’s in downtown Oakland calls for a transit-first ballpark (SF Chronicle)
- Modesto considers a road diet (Modesto Bee)
- Draft state rail plan includes long-term plans to consider Santa Barbara commuter train service (Independent)
- Gas tax will fund Safe Routes to School improvements in Apple Valley
- US cities are building low-stress, connected bike routes (Strong Towns)
- Former Modesto city councilmember claims Caltrans deliberately does bad work to create congestion so it gets more money to widen highways (Modesto Bee)
- Just build housing already (City Observatory)
- CA clears the way for testing driverless cars (LA Times)
- Autonomous cars could deepen economic inequality (Fast Company)
- State-level mandatory emissions rules work (ArsTechnica)
- The idea of punishing pedestrians for using phones is spreading: now it’s Boston (Boston Magazine)
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