Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Oakland

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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Talking Headways Podcast: How Oakland Got it So Right

By Jeff Wood | Apr 23, 2020 | No Comments

This week, we talk to a key official in Oakland, who explains how the city is creating the nation's biggest open-streets network practically overnight. Are you listening, Mayor de Blasio?

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Streetsies 2019: And the Winners Are…

By Aaron Short | Dec 26, 2019 | No Comments

Here are our annual awards for the best (and worst) people, projects and ideas of the year.

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