Oakland

A successful intervention by OakDOT and Bike East Bay helped salvage the project, but it's still got a fundamental problem

In East Oakland, it's all but impossible to separate bicycle infrastructure from fears of gentrification and displacement. So when it comes to bike lanes "I still have questions about who it is for?" admitted Phoenix Mangrum of Cycles of Change, a bicycle education youth program founded in 1998 and based in East Oakland’s San Antonio district.

They've been improving safety all over Oakland...so Kaplan wants that stopped?

As part of its efforts to make the city more accessible, its official bikeshare program now includes 'adaptive bikes'

Advocates convene to review, discuss and update on some of Oakland and Alameda's most exciting projects and proposals

Scrapping I-980 seems like a no-brainer, but the historical argument for getting rid of it assumes the freeway is a legacy of mid-century attempts to build barriers around white middle-class neighborhoods. That’s true of several major freeways, but the story of I-980 isn’t so clear cut.

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

How does a new Department of Transportation fix these streets and fight disparities in the communities they run through?

Advocates want bike lanes, a pedestrian mall, and more space for people added to the revitalization scheme