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- From: mcmahon@tgv.com (John 'Fast-Eddie/FuzzFace' McMahon)
- Subject: Re: The Rebuilding of the Wrecked West Oakland I-880 Segment
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.222841.23030@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <1992Aug15.032831.18159@s1.gov>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:28:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.032831.18159@s1.gov>, lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
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- (about the I-880 section along Cypress in Oakland...)
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- =
- = Now, it will be rebuilt, as I have learned from recent
- =newspaper stories (for example, _The San Francisco Examiner_, Aug. 13,
- =1991, p. A4)
- =
- = The original 1.25 mi. stretch will be rebuilt for about $695
- =million. The job will be started in January 1994, and the rebuilt
- =freeway segment should open in 1998.
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- I suspect those folks who were forced onto other routes because of the
- loss of I-880 will be happy to hear it's on the way back. I doubt the
- folks in that Oakland neighborhood will be happy, I think the area
- looks and sounds a lot nicer without I-880 going through it.
-
- However, they called a smog alert for the Silicon Valley today and
- I begin to wonder whether or not that $700 million should have
- been used to improve public transit in that region and get
- more people out of their cars.
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