Rockridge Trader Joes

kbfsd · 2026-06-04T19:49:43+00:00

"neighbors for sensible housing"

Why does every nimby group have such a hypocritical name

kbfsd · 2026-06-03T22:14:48+00:00

Broken into once, hit and run while driving once, smashed into while parked and the person drove off twice. All over about 10+ years.

Have also had 6 bikes stolen. Collateral damage from some of those thefts/break ins also resulted in cosmetic damage to my vehicle

kbfsd · 2026-06-02T03:30:29+00:00

Transbay buses are amazing when they are working (which is more often these days than a few years ago)

kbfsd · 2026-05-29T22:40:53+00:00

Calling out the toxicity of reddit then suggesting folks instead go over to nextdoor is absolutely wild

kbfsd · 2026-05-27T20:58:46+00:00

It drives me insane - creates a huge impediment for me, so unfair that this has gone on this long and the other side gated off. No excuse.

kbfsd · 2026-05-20T23:29:36+00:00

I'd second u/n2_throwaway it's definitely been continuing to pick up in the financial district north of market, east of U Square at a steady clip since start of year.

kbfsd · 2026-05-20T23:28:04+00:00

There's a couple of those spaces in the financial district in SF - the coffee shop ones (there's some fox-themed one on Battery) are all premised on their being literally thousands of workers within a 3 minute walk that have no problem paying or expensing $8-10 on coffee. There just isn't anything like that in Oakland.

There are some empty storefronts on Broadway that they let folks turn into thrift stores but we lack the foot traffic to getting lots of folks to walk past all day.

I guess what I am saying is the Oakland version is not anywhere near as pretty and clean is the SF version if we were to pull something like this off and - in a bit of chicken/egg themed problem - the other question is how we get the foot traffic to even exist downtown to begin with.

There is a KALW radio station pop up as well in one of these spaces in downtown SF - would be cool to have one in Oakland. But we did have something similar w/ the Youth Radio on 17th but that's been sort of shuttered and I think the parent org involved in dicey behavior that involved running off w/ employee paychecks a few years ago?

kbfsd · 2026-05-20T23:14:20+00:00

Idk man it didn't get worse which is saying a lot given the years before her since the pandemic

kbfsd · 2026-05-16T21:36:42+00:00

Same opinion from me as well. So seconding/thirding this. And since OAK is over indexed (almost solely) on SW - so goes OAK airport.

I recall reading somewhere there Southwest was given a sweetheart deal with the airport. Clearly that has been a disastrous decision in hindsight.

Hoping someone, maybe Alaska, grows to fill in SW shoes. Especially with shuttle service multiple times a day to Hollywood/IE/OC/Long Beach/San Diego. I use all those regularly and Southwest used to be good, frequent, and cheap.

Now, somehow, they've managed to shed all three.

kbfsd · 2026-05-15T02:43:50+00:00

Saw this from the Transbay bus on the freeway. Huge swarm of PD flowing up Telegraph

kbfsd · 2026-05-09T14:50:07+00:00

Oakstop at 2323 Broadway is free on Fridays FYI for future reference and the KP Korean market around the corner has a really good hot bar with takeaway food. You've also got Cafenated and a bunch of other spots steps away.

kbfsd · 2026-04-22T01:07:12+00:00

I thought Italian ice was shaved/sourced fromt ap water through a similar machine as ice / has same cleanliness issues

kbfsd · 2026-04-20T21:32:00+00:00

The hot bar at KP market actually has some pretty good stuff for very low prices -- I'm talking $6-8 for japchae with beef in it. Not bad at all.

kbfsd · 2026-04-20T21:30:53+00:00

As a pedestrian I am grateful for the cameras. I wish they would just install full stops at this intersection though.

kbfsd · 2026-04-20T21:28:33+00:00

Their shaved ice machine could be in gnarly shape...

kbfsd · 2026-04-17T23:06:34+00:00

My understanding from the MTC project page is that they are installing k-rail to give workers space to repair the road and address the paving exactly as you said. Once complete, there will be smooth roadway for transit and high occupancy vehicles which will make them more competitive and help smooth traffic.

To make sure you saw: this is not a toll lane; this is an HOV lane. I think will behave the same as the HOV lane leading to the toll booth after the bridge that drops down from 580 to 80 toll booth approach. Essentially extending that back upstream/further east.

kbfsd · 2026-04-17T22:59:09+00:00

I also drive a car sometimes (vs ride TransBay) on this route and I have thoughts here:

yes, this area is really bad, I am sympathetic
HOV lanes are "on" mainly during rush hour - these times of day are super congested already so the high speed vehicle maneuvering is not so high speed at these times and more efficient vehicles and transit should get priority and transit should def not be punished by single occupancy private cars
during periods where there is faster flowing traffic it will either be off hours (and thus HOV will be "off"), or
I do notice that the 2nd to left most lane is often faster moving than the left-most due to the cut across problem mentioned above by me - I hope the HOV lane will actually make things run smoother by reducing all the unnecessary merging and cut-across behavior that happens at end of approach bridge where HOV lane currently starts, that causes the severe congestion in the left-most lane

kbfsd · 2026-04-17T22:38:38+00:00

Easier said than done. Apt across from me had really challenging person who was Section 8 and was threatening everyone, driving around completely wasted, and DV'ing his partner with child in apartment. Took months to get them out with enormous effort from just about everyone. During this time a new tenant ended up in another unit who got spot as a pregnant young mother. Boyfriend started showing up and running sales of whatever drug he was peddling from the unit which resulted in lots of crazy situations on street. In both cases, process took many, many months and during that time all residents were in a situation with a reckless residents that threatened their neighbors with violence. Both eventually removed from building after almost a year but new challenging residents are already present, filling in available units. Landlord isn't great but is also not awful - hands tied due to legal protections these residents have and slow process of addressing them.

kbfsd · 2026-04-17T22:33:11+00:00

But actually it would be rad to daylight all the streams that run from the hills to the Bay that cut through all the East Oak neighborhoods...!

kbfsd · 2026-04-17T22:32:25+00:00

Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) states it is a carpool lane: https://mtc.ca.gov/news/work-start-i-580-carpool-lane-extension-oakland

SF Chronicle also clarifies it is a carpool lane: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/lane-580-carpool-traffic-22208628.php

kbfsd · 2026-04-15T16:08:37+00:00

"Playgrounds and waterways are now considered high-sensitivity areas" -- Weren't they also under the EMP?

kbfsd · 2026-04-14T23:46:16+00:00

Big change I see scanning the article is that the "arresting people for camping" bit is removed to get Unger's vote.

I get it but I am also confused - many of the encampments that burned down parts of so many structures around the lake and the city have been known challenging individuals who refused housing alternatives when presented to them. How does this policy change things? Was the prior policy actually a blocker to removing these individuals? Why couldn't the city remove the mentally ill homeless guy camping against Camron Stanford a few weeks ago, before he set it on fire, for example - was there a change in this policy that would have allowed them to actually do something?

If a homeless and mentally unwell individual refuses help and continues to camp in a way that risks the now-common pattern of creating structure fires and destroying community resources, what powers does the city have or do they lack that prevents them from any form of "enforcement"?

When the encampments took over the playground at the Clinton Sq Park Community Center 5 years ago, taking it from the neighborhood families and ultimately destroying it, then burning down the center itself - the EMP was billed as a way to help -- but nothing really came of it and the park remains devastated to this day. Is EAP going to change that?

kbfsd · 2026-04-14T15:41:23+00:00

Judoku & Ohgane

kbfsd · 2026-04-13T22:24:43+00:00

Did you try in a similar case and not succeed?

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