Sooooo...anyone else beginning to regret voting for this clusterfuck?

Conversate!

I think buying tuxedos for the geese is a great idea.
Classy.

The last time I saw it, I thought it was looking really great.  Be patient Tsa Tsa.  They're makin' it purdy.

I'm waiting for the "Outer Sunset Renovation" project.  I'm thinking an Atlantic City style boardwalk with lots of neon...

foreal be patient.

My friend used to work at the aquatic center there....I hope they clean the dead bodies in the lake and clean up the rap...*wink*

I like how the Lake Merritt plan squeezes bicycles and pedestrians into traffic at key points around the Lake.  It will be so much easier for Paramedics to know where to respond to hit and runs.

I love riding my bike, but bikes going around that lake are a nuisance.  There really isn't room for them.

I'm all for improvement and redevelopment, and am patient enough to wait out the fencing and temporary traffic issues. But it's weird how they're dumping so much money into seemingly unnecessary projects (wayyy too wide sidewalks, an un-needed stoplight on lakeshore ave) and little or nothing into things that are needed (a footbridge from the Kaiser / BART / Oakland museum across 14th to the lake, better lighting, etc)

Who's running this show?

Amy "Ooh Ee Ooh Ah Ah Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang" R. says:

I love riding my bike, but bikes going around that lake are a nuisance.  There really isn't room for them.
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Here we go, did we miss the show?

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what exactly are they doing to improve Lake Merritt?
In the mid 80's they put the necklace of lights around the lake...that was a fantastic beautification

Some of the worst problems I see are the cheap paths which already seem to be falling apart and look like S___ with the goose droppings on it.

But come on, how can you not see an improvement on the streets themselves where you used to have to make the crazy left turn while people yielded to you?

Personally I think improving the pathways and re-doing some of the walkways have been overall positive. What I think sucks was all the trees they cut down over by the Henry J Kaiser parking lot and in the dividers where they could have at least waited to chop the trees down till construction actually began!

1 hour ago ben h. says:

I'm all for improvement and redevelopment, and am patient enough to wait out the fencing and temporary traffic issues. But it's weird how they're dumping so much money into seemingly unnecessary projects (wayyy too wide sidewalks, an un-needed stoplight on lakeshore ave) and little or nothing into things that are needed (a footbridge from the Kaiser / BART / Oakland museum across 14th to the lake, better lighting, etc)

Who's running this show?
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This is exactly what I'm talking about.  It's not the construction that I'm talking about per se.  I am a patient person.  I'm just wondering if the results are really going to be worth the overall cost to the city, as well as to the businesses which I believe are suffering in an immediate sense from the traffic nightmare incurred by this project.  I personally have avoided the lake area on more than one occasion because of this project.

Also, I am not convinced that the reduction of traffic to one lane in that area is a good thing at all.  I'm also not sure traffic will be that much better after the construction is completed, not to mention parking.  I think this is just a taste of what's to come.

did that parking meter thing go through yet?

They rolled back the meter times to the original 6 pm cut off, Joe, but the price increase and surcharges remain the same.  It's a double-whammy for businesses to deal with this along with the construction issues.

One cheap improvement would be to buy all the bums spiffy new shopping carts.

I, too, am a patient person. Ladies, get at me.

that sucks...I went to le cheval on fri and was hoping my car didn't get towed.  They're talking about increasing the meter time to midnight in sf and 9-6 on sunday..going be bad for business.

I used to live near lake merrit and loved jogging around the lake though...

it is really confusing driving around there now though.

Lance: not necessarily new shopping carts, but maybe some new rims.

Lance, I hope a *homeless person* poops on your hemp knapsack.

That would be cool, I've never seen spinners on a shopping cart.

Spinners are soooo 2003.

snoppy dog?

Sorry I'm kinda out of the loop.
I'll call my friend Jimbo and ask him what's hip nowadays.

Conversate ~

recreate

delineate

please don't pro-create

So I took my brand new quad roller skates for a spin around the lake yesterday, and about half of it is good, and half of it is not good.  This is partly because they have torn up the roads, so the cyclists have to use the sidewalk, and there really isn't enough space.  Around 14th street where the bums hang out it's not so great, and I haven't been down around the playground on Bellevue, but where they have put in new sidewalks, it's nice.  I just wish they would be consistent with their construction, it gets confusing when I see it in a different spot every morning.

Speaking of Lake Merritt...Sidebar, Tsada?

As a whole I don't have much faith in city government in Oakland so if I were to answer your question "Who's in charge", I might have to answer, "whoever the construction company is that got the bid for the project is in charge," Tsada.

I don't like how you have to "guess" where the lanes are now.  Part of me likes the added entertainment value but the other part is alarmed at how dangerous it is.

retaliate

pontificate

try not to hate....whoa, is this an INXS song?

Loli "The Innocent One" L. says:

Part of me likes the added entertainment value but the other part is alarmed at how dangerous it is.
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That's how i felt about that sharp left turn by the park where oncoming traffic has to yield to the turner that Melissa was referring to earlier. On one hand, it was kind of  'locals only' route. On the other it was an accident waiting to happen.

let's mediate

lose some weight

don't hate on section 8

try not to masturbate

I have hopes...but that restaurant on the lake has been getting pretty bad reviews

Tsadah'...

Whooridah'

The Oakland insida'

Splittn' domes like an empty bottle of Fat Tire...

^spittin game