Jerry Brown, who had served two terms as governor of California and had run unsuccessfully for president three times and the U.S. Senate once, re-entered politics in 1997 by declaring his candidacy for mayor of Oakland.
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Biden s infrastructure bill may finally see the removal of Oakland s Interstate 980
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Thanks to an earthquake, and years of public dismay, two of San Francisco’s most disliked freeways the Embarcadero Freeway and Hayes Valley section of the Central Freeway came down in the 1990s.
Now, as part of President Joe Biden s forthcoming massive infrastructure bill, Oakland s controversial Interstate 980 may see the same fate.
The short, sunken 2-mile freeway was completed in 1985 and bisects Oakland s downtown, separating the city’s busy Broadway and Telegraph corridors from the largely Black and working-class neighborhoods of West Oakland.
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