Posted on 04/12/2020 3:56:25 PM PDT by lowbridge
In an effort to further promote social distancing and to simply have enough room to do so, the city of Oakland will be closing about 74 miles of city streets in order to give bicyclists and pedestrians more room to spread out.
Mayor Libby Schaaf announced the new initiative on Thursday, calling it “Oakland Slow Streets.”
The idea is to give residents more room to safely go outside and exercise around their residential neighborhood during the coronavirus shelter in place order.
The city is essentially taking an old bike path plan, something they’ve been working on for a while, and translating it into the program.
City officials said residents can still drive on those streets, but can’t drive through them.
If you live on one of those streets or you have business there, like a delivery, you can still drive your car on the street.
They want to stop the through traffic to make it a little safe for people who are outside getting some exercise.
Mayor Schaaf said she feels this is a really good way to use public space to give people an opportunity to exercise.
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Make Oakland Africa
Mao
I think this is how some great civilizations died in the past. They were not taken out by enemies, they just killed themselves because they were ruled by idiots.
Oh yeah.
Ban cars, so people can get close to each other, once again.
Great plan.
How about just requiring people ride alone?
For real.
Ya but the difference is these morons think its a good idea.....some people are just SO conditioned to being TOLD what is in their best interest that they have squandered their self-preservation instinct.....let them die intheir temporary security while giving up the liberty we all know and love.....me I’m a “cold dead hands” kind of guy.
Idiocracy and Walking Dead. In recent years, both coming true.
Drugs and television, death of a nation...
It already is Africa
100% more
lunacy coming out of CA...
Dumb...
You make a good point.
Are the HOV lanes in Californica open to anybody now?
God Forbid the California libtards require essential workers to share a car.
I have seen a lot of people walking out in city streets in order to stay off the sidewalk and ensure they remain 6 feet from any passersby. So yeah, they'll remain free of the 'rona, but get killed after being struck by an automobile.
Thanks for giving us 24 hours notice, Libby.
Doh! Sitting in a glass cage is better social distance than walking past other walkers, joggers and bicyclists. But that really isn’t the point, is it?
This might be OK if it’s temporary.
It probably won’t be. The Left is full of anti-car bicycle extremists. They run Oakland government.
And the only lyxury restaurants left will be Taco Bell...
But also the 3 Seashells instead of toilet paper.
Everybody in a car is AUTOmatically more than 6 feet apart. Pedestrians stand much closer. This is not about Covid, it’s about Socialist wet dreams.
You can drive ON the street but not THROUGH it?
If you drive BY with guns blazing, does that count?
I wonder how many people walking the streets of oakland will get mugged or shot by resident ferals.
Nobody is using the carpool lanes that wasn’t already carpooling. It’s couples, or families with kids who were going to be 2 or more in the car anyway.
Could probably trace this recent stupidity in Oakland to the moronic thinking behind HOV lanes.
In L.A. they have actually been getting rid of traffic lanes and even highway offramp lanes to paint in bike lanes. Yes of course you can’t ride a bike on the freeway (yet) but they have to accommodate for it at the street. So offramps are now backing up onto the freeway during rush hour because there’s one less lane for cars to funnel into. What do you want to bet the incidence of bike accidents will rise as people fling open their car doors or pull out of a parking spot... without any more people actually riding in the lanes?
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