No one focuses on the pain here : Inside Oakland s abandoned car epidemic
Ariana Bindman
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Just beneath the bustling Nimitz Freeway, there’s hundreds of them. Maybe even thousands.
They’re gutted and stripped, covered in graffiti, burned to pieces and exploding with trash. Oakland’s swaths of abandoned vehicles are an unsightly urban phenomenon, and just parallel to Wood Street, which is home to sprawling tent encampments, there’s an astonishing amount of them.
Just ahead, two people can be seen stripping a rusty truck that’s been reduced to a frame on wheels. The area, which feels like something out of a post-apocalyptic John Carpenter film, is cluttered with AC Transit buses, bombed-out BMWs and overturned Audis. But how did they get here? And more importantly, why is the city allowing them to accumulate?
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A cold storm is dropping snow in the higher elevations.
The California Department of Transportation issued chain controls Tuesday on some North State highways, but as of 7:45 a.m. there were no restrictions on Interstate 5 north of Redding to the California-Oregon border.
On Highway 44
Chains or snow tires are required from Viola about eight miles west of Old Station, and from approximately eight miles west of the Bogard ranger station to the ranger station in Lassen County.
Chains also are required on all vehicles except those with 4-wheel drive with snow tires from the Bogard ranger station to the junction of Highway 36 in Lassen County.
The California Department of Transportation said northbound I-5 traffic is being screened at Fawndale. Motorists must have have tire chains in their possession in order to proceed, Caltrans said on its website Wednesday morning.
Earlier Wednesday, chains were required on I-5 on all vehicles except those with 4-Wheel drive equipped with snow tires from 3 miles south of Dunmsuir to Weed in Siskiyou County. But the restrictions were lifted by 7:15 a.m.
Meanwhile, chains or snow tires are required on Highway 299 west of Burney on Hatchet Mountain in Shasta County, Caltrans said.
Chain controls are also in effect on portions of Highway 44 east of Redding.
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