'No one focuses on the pain here': Inside Oakland's abandoned car epidemic
'No one focuses on the pain here': Inside Oakland's abandoned car epidemic Ariana Bindman FacebookTwitterEmail 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. Th...