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Caltrans launched a study on ending the truck ban on portions of I-580 in Oakland and San Leandro. The ban also keeps truck traffic off Route 13 through Montclair and Piedmont.

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This wrongheaded idea was first floated in 2022 by Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley as a social justice issue. Residents along the I-880 corridor are exposed to noise and pollution from heavy trucks. Bringing truck noise and pollution to I-580 won’t correct any injustice. It merely subjects more people to that injustice. Spreading the pain to twice as many people does not diminish it. It increases it.

Lifting the ban would soon result in I-580 traffic resembling that on I-880 as evidenced by the effects of recen

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