Oakland residents, fed up with harmful late-night sideshows the place automobiles do stunts, constructed their very own velocity bumps on East twenty first Road and nineteenth Avenue after town ignored 4 years of pleas for assist. Costing $3,000, these do-it-yourself velocity bumps stopped the sideshows for eight months, however the metropolis’s Division of Transportation eliminated them for missing official approval, angering locals who say town does not care about their security. Beforehand, town additionally eliminated tire obstacles that residents set as much as deter sideshows, and although officers say they’re engaged on traffic-calming options, residents argue town’s sluggish response has allowed the damaging stunts to return, leaving the neighborhood annoyed and unsafe.
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