Great work by residents. But next time they need to have a more organized force to keep the city at bay, bring in the media, call their reps in the city council, etc.
You can’t beat the government in force but you can embarrass them until they give up.
You know, if Fox News is agreeing with you, maybe you should stop and consider whether you’re on the right side.
Sideshows are not “reckless driving”. They’re community events. But the community they come from is poor and black so the Nextdoor scolds work themselves into a panic and put up barricades to block roads.
To be fair, Oakland’s government is corrupt bottom to top. If these streets were blocked with trash instead of barricades they wouldn’t do shit. But that’s not the problem here.
If your “community event” has such a high carbon cost of needlessly burning fossil fuels and destroying tires, not to mention the noise pollution and safety aspects, maybe it’s time to find a new community event.
Why not a street take over of bicycles? How about meeting up at a third space like a park, bar or cafe? What about collectively doing some tactical urbanism to improve your community - paint some crosswalks, add bollards to force pedestrianization.
A sideshow near me ended with everyone fleeing after a Charger drifted into a traffic signal and knocked out power to the block.
That’s reckless driving, man.
Like, takeover a Walmart parking lot. Drift at Costco. Doing it at an intersection next to an apartment? C’mon.