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Oakland's city council is looking at a new strategy for dealing with the thousands of cars that are reported abandoned each year. Oakland's city council is looking at a new strategy for dealing ...
Oakland city officials estimated the Occupy movement cost the city $2.38 million in police overtime pay, private security and mutual aid, not including costs of the Port of Oakland protests and not accounting for insurance policy reimbursement. The estimate was a revision of the $5 million figure provided by Mayor Quan. [106]
Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit. Cal Park Hill Tunnel, beneath California Park, also features a pedestrian/bicycle path. Puerto Suello Hill Tunnel, commuter rail tunnel. San Diego State University Transit Center, the only subway station in the San Diego Trolley system. VTA light rail tunnel under San Jose Diridon station.
Abandoned vehicle. Abandoned vehicles are decrepit cars or car wrecks or cars that have become useless in other ways, which are abandoned and illegally dumped in the environment. Abandoned vehicles will be tagged with an official notice when found or reported. [1] Criteria for "abandonment" may differ, and a minimum duration of abandonment in ...
The east–west tunnel is signed as a part of California State Route 24 and connects Oakland to central Contra Costa County.It is named after Thomas E. Caldecott (1878–1951), who was mayor of Berkeley in 1930–1932, a member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors in 1933–1945, and president of Joint Highway District 13, which built the first two bores.
Total crime in Oakland dropped by 41% from 1987 to 2012. In 2012, Oakland had the highest total crime rate of any California city with 20,000 or more people, with 8,587 total crimes per 100,000 residents, compared to a statewide average of 3,182 total crimes per 100,000 people.[8] Property crime in Oakland declined by 58% between 1988 and 2009 ...
Oakland's rise to industrial prominence, and its subsequent need for a seaport, led to the digging of a shipping and tidal channel in 1902, which created an island of nearby town Alameda. In 1906, its population doubled with refugees made homeless after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Ghost Town Farms, one of the more successful expressions of urban agriculture activity in Oakland is located in the heart of the district at 2727 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, between 27th and 28th Streets. The area is also one of Oakland's open-air art galleries, with many murals, particularly along Martin Luther King Jr. Way.