Oakland
Off Campus: Students Are Boosting Public Transit as Key to Affordability
One constituency is doubling-down on its support, even, in one recent case, taxing itself to bolster service.
June 12, 2025
Talking Headways Podcast: The Pacific Circuit
Alexis Madrigal connects containerization to globalization and its direct impacts on one Oakland neighborhood.
April 17, 2025
Talking Headways Podcast: The Real Work of Safe Streets
Oakland City Council candidate Warren Logan on how people perceive government works, and the need for more flexible housing and streets policies.
August 29, 2024
Eyes on the Street: Check out Oakland, Calif.’s Newest Protected Intersection
But they blew it on the bike lanes themselves, which are paint only.
June 26, 2024
Little ‘Radical’ Cyclists Invade Oakland
Some Oakland motorists may have been slightly delayed Saturday by hordes of children having fun biking around Lake Merritt.
May 13, 2024
Talking Headways Podcast: Saving Transit from the Fiscal Cliff
How a coalition of California transit advocates organized to avert a fiscal cliff last year for transit operators in their state.
March 28, 2024
Oakland Rips Out Protected Bike Lane on Embarcadero
The city and the councilmember who represents District 2 complain about lack of resources for safety projects, but somehow they have the resources to rip out protected bike lanes.
February 22, 2024
Oakland Calif. Mayor Makes New Promise About Safety
Mayor Thao Tweets "It's time to reach a critical juncture where tragedies don’t catalyze improvements." But when and how will we know if the city has really reached that point and is serious about safety for all road users?
December 5, 2023
A Little Girl is Dead, But This Calif. Transportation Official Still Won’t Commit to Safety
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.
September 7, 2023
See It: San Francisco’s Impressive New Concrete-Island-Protected Bike Lanes
Streetfilms documents Oakland's best-practice protected bike lane and decides it looks great.
August 3, 2023
