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The math here says more about America's road addiction than anything else. Oakland has an unusually large mileage of roads which are unusually broad. Addition
by m0llusk 7y ago
The math here says more about America's road addiction than anything else. Oakland has an unusually large mileage of roads which are unusually broad. Additionally many of these roads are on unstable hillsides. The reality is that even if Oakland were hugely wealthy and efficient with its resources then there would still be a problem. Treating road repair like some kind of moral issue clouds the real costs.
- rangeofmotion 7y agoI don't know which roads the vigilantes are focusing on. But my guess is they aren't concerned with the less frequently used roads on the hillsides. They're probably more concerned with the ones that should be obvious to city officials to fix sooner rather than later. The ones that impact people significantly near the higher concentrations of homes and places of business. The road conditions in Oakland have been this way for decades. And whenever you talk about a problem like this in Oakland, it calls forth the general condition of Oakland, which very much is a moral problem (both due to the alleged corruption that keeps it from changing as well as the fact that you can barely enter the city without being confronted by extreme poverty and people with severe mental health problems who are just left behind). The holes in the road have at least one thing in common with the overall state of the city: neglect.