City of Oakland

Oakland DOT is getting praise from advocates for the attention to detail on the 14th street protected bike lane. Unfortunately, the project is also running late.

Alexis Madrigal connects containerization to globalization and its direct impacts on one Oakland neighborhood.

...it also means an end to a 51-year chapter for the Coliseum BART Pedestrian Bridge.

Megan Wier, OakDOT Assistant Director, will step in to run the agency starting March 11

On Wednesday OakDOT's Fred Kelley, during a SPUR interview, said that protected bike lanes should be the default, but then listed a bunch of exceptions and political considerations. Later that same day he told the grandmother of a four-year-old girl killed on Lakeshore that the city can't build protected bike lanes on the east side of Lake Merritt, even though they would have saved the girl's life.

Study shows positive results from the installation of protected intersections around the Lake Merritt BART station

Construction detours will pipe traffic onto surface streets in West Oakland, Emeryville

The City of Oakland is conducting public outreach for repaving, repairs, and a major redesign of Telegraph.

Wednesday evening, SPUR, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, sponsored a talk entitled "Reconsidering Transportation to Create Better Urban Spaces" at their new downtown Oakland location. The talk focused on the history and damage done by the almost mindless adherence over the years to Level of Service (LOS) on urban spaces throughout California.