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 theyve been working on for a while, and translating it into the program.
City officials said residents can still drive on those streets, but cant 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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Take over the streets for drag racing.
Here in Cslgary, I don’t believe that any streets have been closed down. Instead, they are reducing lanes to allow room for pedestrians to ‘social distance’ themselves as they walk. So, instead of a four lane road, it is now only two, allowing pedestrians more space.
Unfortunately, what I am seeing on some suburban two lane streets, is pedestrians walking on the street, not allowing room for me to get my bus past them and, many arenot moving over to let me by. Disappointing but not unexpected.
Back in the 1970s in Berkeley they had barricaded a number of the streets in the residential areas so that there was no through traffic. The residents of those streets were happy there was little traffic but it made it more difficult for commuters. On Ashby Avenue there were intersections where there was no cross traffic because there were barriers on the side streets, but they didn’t change the traffic lights, so people still had to wait at red lights at those intersections. I think the idea was to make driving as aggravating as possible so that people would stop using their cars and take public transportation.
Will this stop drive-bys?
This will make it easier for the thugs in Oakland to mug, rob, rape and murder those new walkers.
A lot of that happens in Oakland.
I feel like I’m stuck in a lab experiment that’s been turned into a dystopian game show that’s being carefully watched & judged by our stalinist overlords.
It’s a game of “let’s keep a tally of which idiotic orders the peons will passively obey, and figure out at which precise point the peons will erupt in mass resistance, and stop just short of that point.”
That’s what they’re doing. Ordering us first to stay inside, then go outside, but only do what we’re allowed, in lockstep. Hup!
No tonly in rat infested Oakland, A friend of mine lives in queens NY on a very narrow street where if you opened your car door traffic had to stop until you closed the door and moved yourself out of the way of traffic. The stupidity of these liberal skunks is just amazing. They painted a bicycle lane down the side of this street.
I used to ride right through those barricades in Berkeley on my motorcycle. Hah!
Oakland is making 74 miles of city streets inaccessible to their disabled.
Here we go...
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