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Article: Alamedans furious over truck traffic Lincoln Avenue residents demand big rigs find another route
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- Oakland Tribune
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- December 8, 2003
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ALAMEDA -- Lincoln Avenue residents say their otherwise mellow
street is bearing the weight of a recent City Council decision to
remove neighboring Buena Vista Avenue from the city's list of truck
routes.
The City Council removed the street as a truck route June 17 after
residents there complained a disproportionate amount of traffic was
turning their street into a raceway.
Now Lincoln Avenue residents have the same complaint.
"Over the past five months I have watched the trucking traffic
along Lincoln increase to where it has become completely unacceptable
and increasingly dangerous," Christopher Barefoot told city leaders
in a December e-mail.
Lincoln neighbors have become so incensed ...