Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Oakland

Talking Headways Podcast: Coordinating Pandemic Transit

By Jeff Wood | Jul 1, 2021 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by Robert del Rosario, director of service development for AC Transit in Oakland to talk about the pandemic, what’s needed to get riders coming back, and what sustainable revenue might look like going forward.

Photos (clockwise from top left): BART, San Joaquins Joint Powers Authority, Link21 Program and Link21 Program

Talking Headways Podcast: A Second Bay Crossing (And One Big ‘Ugh’)

By Jeff Wood | Feb 18, 2021 | No Comments

This is "a plannerly podcast" about the ultimately plannerly issue — better rail links in the SF Bay Area.

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Six Million Dollars for a Fake Bike Path

By Roger Rudick | Nov 18, 2020 | No Comments

Advocates were dismayed that the Alameda City Council voted Tuesday to tone down a letter condemning the Oakland Alameda Access Project's (OAAP) lack of bike and pedestrian accommodations

An Open Streets event in Washington, DC. Source: Ted Eytan via Creative Commons.

Measuring the Success of COVID-19 Street Closures

By Kea Wilson | Oct 26, 2020 | No Comments

A new study shows that many "Slow Streets" and "Open Streets" programs launched in response to COVID-19 lockdowns were bigger successes than anyone realized.

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Interview: Oakland leader on Racial Equity And Mobility

By Courtney Cobbs | May 28, 2020 | No Comments

Warren Logan, policy director of mobility and interagency relations for the mayor’s office of Oakland, which in April became the first city to launch “Slow Streets,” has been at the forefront of the movement to create more space for safe, socially-distanced transportation and recreation during COVID-19. I first heard about Warren in an August 2019 […]

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Equity, Open Streets and the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery

By Courtney Cobbs | May 11, 2020 | No Comments

For Black and Brown people to feel completely safe walking, biking, or just existing in public space, we need to make fundamental changes in the way our society is structured.

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