Recent Streetsblog SF posts about City of Oakland

Oakland’s Holiday Gift: Parking Dysfunction and Traffic Congestion

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 30, 2012 | 17 Comments

The City of Oakland would apparently like to think it’s doing merchants and shoppers a favor by declaring all on-street car parking free every Saturday until New Year’s. Of course, parking meters were invented to encourage turnover and allow more driving customers to park near businesses. So while the city’s “gift” probably won’t do much […]

Oakland City Council Gives Final Approval to East Bay BRT

By Judy Silber | Jul 18, 2012 | 14 Comments

The Oakland City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the 9.5-mile East Bay Bus Rapid Transit line that will run from downtown Oakland to San Leandro. The vote in Oakland follows a similar approval by San Leandro’s City Council on Monday. The dual approvals mark a huge victory for advocacy groups and AC Transit, which first […]

East Bay’s Record-Breaking Bike to Work Day: Ten Mayors, 17,000 People

By Ruth Miller | May 11, 2012 | 4 Comments

10 mayors, 17,000 people, and 600 pancakes: the San Francisco East Bay celebrates Bike to Work Day 2012.

How Quickly Will Caltrans Embrace Complete Streets Guidelines?

By Matthew Roth | Mar 30, 2010 | 6 Comments

Photo: Thomas Hawk Though it may seem esoteric, one of the biggest impediments to designing streets for people is the over-reliance on design standards that have long privileged movement of vehicles over any other consideration on the streets. That’s why advocates cheered when U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood published a policy paper recently that, at […]

Oakland Airport Connector Clears One More Hurdle

By Matthew Roth | Oct 7, 2009 | 5 Comments

OAC image: BART Transit advocates, community groups, and faith-based environmental justice organizations made another plea to Oakland and regional policy makers to kill the half a billion dollar Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) with a resolution sponsored by Oakland City Council members Nancy Nadel and Rebecca Kaplan at their monthly meeting last night. Citing a significantly […]

Oakland City Council Delays Parking Vote for Two Weeks

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 23, 2009 | 3 Comments

Oakland’s electronic parking meters. Flickr photo: mlinksva The Oakland City Council voted early this morning to delay action on proposed parking changes until its next meeting. After three hours of discussion that spilled well beyond midnight, a proposal to roll back parking meter enforcement from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. was narrowly defeated, despite calls […]

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