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- From: marc@octel.com (Marc Lewert)
- Subject: Re: The Rebuilding of the Wrecked West Oakland I-880 Segment
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.202844.12353@octel.com>
- Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca.
- References: <1992Aug15.032831.18159@s1.gov> <1992Aug16.222841.23030@news.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:28:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.222841.23030@news.arc.nasa.gov> mcmahon@tgv.com writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Aug15.032831.18159@s1.gov>, lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >
- >(about the I-880 section along Cypress in Oakland...)
- >
- >=
- >= 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.
- >
- >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.
- >
-
- Please realize that Silicon Valley is 40-50 miles south of Oakland, even
- though I880 does go through both of them.
-
- As for public transit in the region, they are cutting back on the transit
- because less money is expected to be forthcoming from the state, IF we ever
- get a budget.
-
- From California, the I-OWE-YOU state, day 51?
-
- marc
-
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