Saved 100 Bus Shelters in Oakland

In the Fall of 2024, the City of Oakland suddenly announced a plan to remove 100 bus shelters without any plan to replace them. Bus shelters are key for making transit better so we leapt into action to defend them. Transbay Coalition and East Bay Transit Riders Unions mobilized a rapid response coalition, got a huge turnout to the meeting where the plan was being presented and got the city to back down. Instead of removing 100 shelters in January 2025 with no plan, the City of Oakland committed to limiting the shelter removals to a small limited number of shelters who are in such a derelict state that the pose an immediate hazard, pursue an alternate replacement shelter design with lower maintenance needs and will move to replace shelters – not simply remove them, and the City of Oakland and AC Transit will pursue a cost-sharing funding proposal between them so that more shelters can be built and maintained.