Dozens of residents expressed frustration for almost three hours at a Saturday listening session in Oakland, overwhelmingly telling representatives from Caltrans, the Bay Area Air District and others to halt a study into a decades-old truck ban on Interstate 580.
The Caltrans study, launched last year following community concerns over health equity, investigates how lifting a ban on trucks that weigh over 9,000 pounds would affect safety and public health for communities along the I-580 corridor. The study takes into account traffic, air quality, noise and racial equity.
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Right now, large trucks instead use Interstate 880, which runs through the flatlands of San Leandro and Oakland. Those areas experience disproportionate rates of asthma hospitalizations and overall have lower life expectancy rates, according to the and the Bay Area Air District.
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