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I-980 cuts West Oakland off from downtown. But maybe that can be fixed. Grist / Google Earth
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Inside the Push to Tear Down an Oakland Freeway

By Nathanael Johnson | Apr 17, 2019 | No Comments
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.
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