While crews are making a significant dent in the number of repairs to be made in East Oakland, many people ABC7 spoke with said there's a lot more work to be done after the intense winter storms.
Monday's focus was kicking off what the city is calling a "pothole blitz" to attend to the "most egregious of all potholes" city-wide.The City of Oakland held its first event on Monday to kick off "One Oakland Spring Clean" week, part of its initiative to clean up the city ahead of Earth Day.
This comes after repeat atmospheric rivers drenched the Bay Area at the start of the year, leaving behind pothole, after pothole, after pothole in Oakland."From December to March 1st, we were unable to implement any significant repair to the roadway infrastructure and so that's a long period of time of when our crews were not able to fulfil basic repair needs," Fred Kelly, the Director of Oakland Department of Transportation said.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Oakland road crews hard at work fixing winter storm potholesOakland street crews filled an estimated 2,700 potholes over the past six weeks, city officials said Monday, announcing the start of a pothole repair blitz now that the winter storms have passed.
Read more »
Oakland crews face daunting backlog of potholes on city streetsOakland street crews filled an estimated 2,700 potholes over the past six weeks, city officials said Monday, announcing the start of a pothole repair blitz now that the winter storms have passed.
Read more »
Oakland teachers union begins strike voteTeachers, counselors, nurses and other members of the Oakland Education Association (OEA) on Monday began voting on whether to authorize a strike, as the union cited what it called “illegal, bad faith bargaining” by the district.
Read more »
Weekend recap: Menlo School breaks track record, girls flag football update, Oakland throws paradeMenlo School relay team breaks CCS record. NCS girls flag football season has start, end dates, Top two CCS softball teams set to play. Santa Clara hires familiar name as its football coach.
Read more »