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Jose Fermoso

California, Oakland

Freelance Reporter and Editor at Freelance

Road Safety Reporter at The Oaklandside

Road safety reporter for @oaklandside, @UMKnightWallace '22 Fellow, 🌳 Host of @elprogresopod: https://t.co/A39dWL56S1… TIPS: [email protected]

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  • 5 days ago | oaklandside.org | Jose Fermoso

    The regional BART transit system shut down for hours this morning due to a network connectivity issue, according to a new security report from the agency.  The staffers managing the trains at the operations control center at the Lake Merritt station in Oakland could not see the track circuits placed on the system’s rails, forcing them to shut it down because they could not know where the trains were.

  • 1 week ago | berkeleyside.org | Jose Fermoso

    A committee studying the dual role of Alameda County’s registrar of voters and chief information officer has found there is a “lack of capacity” to do both jobs optimally, despite the ROV and his staff’s “commitment and dedication.” “The performance of the office taken as a whole since the roles were combined suggests that the dual responsibility is on balance a negative rather than a positive, measured by ultimate results,” said the report.

  • 1 week ago | oaklandside.org | Jose Fermoso

    A committee studying the dual role of Alameda County’s registrar of voters and chief information officer has found there is a “lack of capacity” to do both jobs optimally, despite the ROV and his staff’s “commitment and dedication.” “The performance of the office taken as a whole since the roles were combined suggests that the dual responsibility is on balance a negative rather than a positive, measured by ultimate results,” said the report.

  • 1 week ago | oaklandside.org | Jose Fermoso

    A bombshell upcoming report has found that the construction of AC Transit’s Tempo bus rapid transit (BRT) service increased traffic casualties by 30% in the network and may have displaced “significant numbers” of businesses along International Boulevard.

  • 2 weeks ago | oaklandside.org | Jose Fermoso

    Starting this summer, Oaklanders should be able to pick up or dock Bay Wheels bikes as far east as the Laurel District. A year after the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and its city partners announced they were adding new stations throughout Oakland, we finally know where they’ll be located. According to Bay Wheels, the 19 locations include the intersections of Brookdale Avenue and Fruitvale Avenue, East 21st Street at 14th Avenue, and MacArthur Avenue and Maple Avenue.

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Jose Fermoso
Jose Fermoso @fermoso
1 May 25

A new report from UC Berkeley researchers has found what many suspected for years: that deadly collisions increased on International Boulevard and businesses were lost because of the planning and construction of AC Transit's bus-rapid transit project. https://t.co/5jC9RRLbzy

Jose Fermoso
Jose Fermoso @fermoso
25 Apr 25

Because the finance department has not issued new bonds, Oakland's transportation department has been unable to set up new contracts for paving jobs for nearly three months. Latest: https://t.co/u6plDSLPfJ

Jose Fermoso
Jose Fermoso @fermoso
25 Apr 25

RT @DarwinBondGraha: Billboard gun ad in Oakland taken down. The gunmaker and billboard company behind the massive pistol ad towering abov…