Oakland links

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I got on See Click Fix to report the terrible potholes on my nearest bike route, and it linked me to Oakland's 5 year paving plan starting in 2022. The fiscal year starts July 1, so they started paving the 2025 streets last year, which include a lot of the bike routes I use. Looks like my nearby bike route is due to be paved this summer, yay, but I wish they would patch the potholes before then anyway. Someone outlined them in paint a couple of times, starting at least a year ago, and they've patched further up, and on surrounding streets, but the segment near me hasn't gotten any repairs.

The future happens in Oakland first. That’s a cautionary tale for global cities by Lois Beckett, March 22, 2025.

Oakland, California, is often treated as a city on the margins, best known for its struggles with poverty and gun violence, as well as for its history of radical Black activism. But a new book, The Pacific Circuit, argues that Oakland should be viewed as one of the centers of global change in the past century, serving both as a key node in the new global economy built around trans-Pacific trade, and as one of the “sacrifice zones” this economy requires.

Far from being an outlier, US journalist Alexis Madrigal argues, Oakland is in fact an early adopter of the technological and economic changes now tearing through cities across the US, and around the world. Oakland has long been the canary in Silicon Valley’s coalmine of disruption, the book suggests. But its residents don’t suffer passively: they organize and learn how to fight back.

Civil rights lawyers on justia.com in Oakland and surrounding areas. You can search for your region in the search bar at the top right of the page.