Posted on 03/23/2024 6:19:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Oakland City Council approved funding to hire more tow companies and use the state DOT’s vacant lots.
Oakland, California is struggling to deal with a deluge of abandoned vehicles across the city. According to the Oakland Department of Transportation, 13,856 cars were reported abandoned over a six-month period in 2023. The city ran out of space in its storage lots and is renting even more room to hold the excess. In total, Oakland is spending $1 million on storage. Anecdotally, car theft is the root of this problem.
ABC7 Bay Area reports the Oakland Police Department will not respond to calls about abandoned or stolen cars unless they are blocking a driveway. Residents are instead instructed to call 311, and to no one’s surprise, abandoned vehicles dominate service calls. Cars are just being dumped everywhere blocking ways into businesses and schools. Business owner Bruce Vong told the TV station, “Some park in front of the gate. I can’t even leave and if you intervene, they’ll shoot you.” Oakland City Council approved funding to hire more tow companies and use the state DOT’s vacant lots.
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Portal Axle Kit Turns Your Ford Bronco Into a Monster Truck However, the measure doesn’t resolve the problem of getting the cars currently parked in the lots back to their owners. Just like in many other cities, the victims of car theft are the ones stuck with the tow bill. In some instances, cities will auction off cars that have been sitting in lots too long unclaimed. A woman in St. Louis had her Pontiac G6 sold without even being informed the car was found.
No cash for clunkers?
So, they are NOT generally abandoned?
Maybe the Meritless Garland and the Fey Wray could target car theft in the Bay Area ‘Rat Urban Utopia?
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Wow!
Wow!
Isn’t Oakland a City rather than a Town?
Tesla’s
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It’s a Uke Company.
Throw a blanket and a pillow in each one of them and then give some homeless wanker the address to his new ‘government housing.’ :0)
The problem isn’t the cars. The problem is the voters who elect district attorneys and judges who don’t lock up the serial car thieves.
Anybody with resources should get paid by Oakland to tow away all the gasoline cars. A couple of years from now, when they outlaw those gasoline cars, they will be worth a lot.
It’s a shame, a damn shame we are ruled by DemonRats. Damn shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRQQudHLi0A
I imagine a huge percentage are Kia and Hyundai
How far away is Rio Linda from Oakland? I remember Rush on his show was talking (had to be 15+ years ago) was talking about all the cars up on concrete blocks...
RL is sort of a suburb of Sacramento.
IDK, 90 miles?
Does Ryan King (the writer of the piece) know that the “town” of Oakland has a population of over 400,000? A bit less than Miami, but more than Minneapolis.
What a dumb writer.
If they find an abandoned 1968 Camaro SS 396, I will take it off their hands.
That would be a nice score. 1968 was the best year of the early Camaros.
1-800-Kars4Kids?
$ 16k !!!!!
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