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Oakland to close 74 miles of city streets to cars to make room for pedestrians, bicyclists
kron4.com ^ | April 10, 2020 | Alexa Mae Asperin

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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KEYWORDS: california; coronavirus; libbyschaaf; oakland; sanfrancisco
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To: FreedomPoster
The Left is full of anti-car bicycle extremists. They run Oakland government.

Take over the streets for drag racing.

21 posted on 04/12/2020 4:38:06 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: lowbridge

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.


22 posted on 04/12/2020 4:38:49 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (0 once was blind but now I see...)
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To: ZOOKER

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.


23 posted on 04/12/2020 4:41:29 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: lowbridge

Will this stop drive-bys?


24 posted on 04/12/2020 4:43:47 PM PDT by umgud
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To: lowbridge

This will make it easier for the thugs in Oakland to mug, rob, rape and murder those new walkers.


25 posted on 04/12/2020 5:21:12 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Evolution works! Can not stand the heat! Get off the planet! Gorebull Warming weeding out the weak!)
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To: ZOOKER

A lot of that happens in Oakland.


26 posted on 04/12/2020 5:21:34 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: lowbridge

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!


27 posted on 04/12/2020 5:21:48 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: lowbridge

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.


28 posted on 04/12/2020 5:39:01 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Verginius Rufus

I used to ride right through those barricades in Berkeley on my motorcycle. Hah!


29 posted on 04/12/2020 7:36:08 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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Oakland is making 74 miles of city streets inaccessible to their disabled.


30 posted on 04/12/2020 8:33:54 PM PDT by bgill (Idiots. CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
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To: lowbridge

Here we go...


31 posted on 04/13/2020 11:58:37 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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