Community Funded Reporting
Sean Maher  |  06 Mar 2009

Oakland streets face dire future without change.



The Great Bike Pothole Search of Oakland

posted by Spot. Us at Tuesday, April 7, 2009

When: Saturday May 2nd - 11:00am, bikes start their mission at 11:30am.

Where: Fruitvale Bart Station: Look for the group of people with bikes outside the station ;)

What
: Bring your bike (or your walking shoes). A pad of paper and a pen. We will disperse to search for potholes and jot down their locations. Also possible to do via cell phone.

The goal: To populate this map with as many potholes as possible.

Why: Biking for good. If we can find the potholes - we can present this with an Oakland Tribune article in the making, giving it more context and potentially having a bigger impact. Who knows, maybe even some positive action will come on behalf of the city in reaction?

RSVP
: Facebook or Upcoming. Or click “join the reporting team” on the pitch.

If you can’t spare a Saturday - maybe you can spare $10 to help the reporting. We need six more people to donate $10 each!

So pump up your bicycle wheels (skateboards, rollerblades and those wheel’d shoes all the kids have also accepted).

Contact info at spot.us for details

 

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Sean Maher
Peer review: Oakland Tribune
This story has been published:

Cost of potholes in Oakland soars as funding erodes

by Sean Maher | 28 Apr 2009 | sfbay
  This story has been published first in the Oakland Tribune. You can read the story there along with photos. Also view our map of potholes created in part by the "We Hella Hate Potholes" Spot.Us bike event and listen to an interview with the reporter Sean Maher and Oakland Tribune editor Martin Reynolds. Oakland streets, already among the most broken and heavily trafficked in the country, are in the midst of a slow but serious decline that hits the…
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