OAKLAND, California (KRON) – In an effort to further promote social distancing and to simply have enough room to do so, the city of Oakland will be closing about 74 miles of city streets in order to give bicyclists and pedestrians more room to spread out.
Mayor Libby Schaaf announced the new initiative on Thursday, calling it “Oakland Slow Streets.”
The idea is to close roads to vehicular traffic mostly in and around residential neighborhoods.
More details are expected to be released later today.
The idea is to close roads to vehicular traffic mostly in and around residential neighborhoods
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By closing residential streets, are they going to be basically barricading people in their neighborhoods? Sorry, can't drive to the store, your street's closed?
And remember Oakland isnt all ghetto. It runs from super-ghetto up to million-dollar-plus house neighborhoods. Will be interesting to see where this is implemented.