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Ryan Russo Leaving OakDOT
Ryan Russo, Director of Oakland's Department of Transportation, will be leaving this summer.
February 16, 2022
Oakland Ends Slow Streets
The city that pioneered Slow Streets at the start of the pandemic is now cancelling the program. Bike East Bay's Dave Campbell talks about future plans for advocacy to preserve some streets and bring back a more robust version of the program in the future.
February 15, 2022
OakDOT Installs Unprotected Bike Lanes in the Telegraph Gap
OakDOT relapses to the same old compromises on safety
January 24, 2022
More Paint and Another Death in Oakland
How many people will die before DOTs stop pretending paint works?
November 2, 2021
What About the Drains, Oakland?
OakDOT is making great strides in repaving, but what if it's all for naught?
July 27, 2021
Eyes on the Street: OakDOT Does Ped Improvements on Market, San Pablo
Where there was paint and posts, now there is concrete
July 21, 2021
OakDOT Wants to Rip Out Protected Bike Lanes on Telegraph
Five years ago Oakland pioneered protected bike lanes in the Bay Area with an installation in the KONO... now they may rip them out
June 3, 2021
Need for Safe 8th Street Underscored by Fiery Crash
West Oakland residents on 8th Street continue to plead with city officials to put down bollards, planters or any other emergency measures to stop the continual traffic violence perpetrated in their otherwise quiet neighborhood.
June 1, 2021
West Oakland Neighbors Demand Safer 8th Street
When houses "come out of nowhere," it might be an indication traffic calming is needed
December 14, 2020
