Today’s Headlines

• 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)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF