San Leandro Focus

  Update : The results of the poll were 84% No; 10% Yes and 6% Uncertain. When Highway 580 was constructed in the early 1960s, CalTrans and the Federal Highway Administration approved a prohibition on vehicles exceeding 4.5 tons, except for passenger vehicles, on the highway from Grand Avenue in Oakland through San Leandro. I have created a poll on the question of whether the ban should be abolished. You can find the poll on Next Door . Please share your opinion. According to CalTrans , this action was taken “because there was a pre-existing truck prohibition in this corridor before the freeway was built. Secondary issues included a four percent grade which would add to congestion and noise.” Since the 1950s, truck traffic had been prohibited on MacArthur Blvd. by the City of Oakland. In 1999, then Assemblymember Ellen Corbett introduced Assembly Bill 500, co-sponsored by other East Bay members of the Assembly and State Senate, that added the Highway 580 truck ban into the Californi