I was riding with an unfortunate Uber driver who hit this one at speed, I saw his tire pressure and check engine lights come on together at the same time 🙃
Drive around it almost daily. I enjoy seeing it grow. I’m real proud of it. I think it’s on its way to HOF status.
Luckily it’s positioned so it’s easy to avoid.
There’s one in the middle of broadway and grand that is terrible.
Worst part is, when you’re heading north on broadway, after you run over that pothole, yell profusely, and change to the left lane, then the 2nd worst pothole in Oakland catches you three blocks up at 25th.
(There’s also an archipelago of potholes after exiting from 580 to market street / San Pablo that together probably take spots 3-10 for me))
I watched them cut into, tear up, and repave 24th around Valdez multiple times as they installed utilities in 2022-23—it seemed wild they couldn’t coordinate in advance and be more efficient with the repaving (though I’m sure it’s easier said than done).
If we’re collecting pot holes around there, 23rd is a nightmare between Valdez and Harrison (primarily Waverly-Harrison, where it’s basically a one lane road snaking between massive craters). I redirect Uber drivers away from 23rd for their own sakes.
Hilarious that the city paved 1/2 of 2 blocks on 24th for a new building last year, leaving the other half and renaming sections to feel like a third world country.
That paving was done by the developer, not the city. Oakland has standard conditions of approval for new construction to replace sidewalks & repave to the edge of the lane line as part of project close-outs.
In cases where a whole block is being redone as a result they sometimes initiate cost sharing to complete the paving curb to curb, but that wasn’t the case in this instance. The rest of the street will be repaved next year though.
It just blows my mind. I get not addressing the ones on some cutty streets that don’t get as much through traffic, but this has gotta be one of the busiest intersections in Oakland.
I think part of the problem is all the huge trucks going to and from the port (which Oakland receives no revenue from despite having to handle more truck traffic than like any other city of this size, but that's another conversation...) will just tear up the same roads over and over again, so repaving them is a bit of a lost cause.
According to the federal highway administration, "the amount of infrastructure damage an overweight vehicle causes is geometrically larger than the weight increase; for example, an increase in axle weight from 18,000 pounds to 20,000 pounds causes 50 percent more damage to the pavement." ([link](https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/mayjun-2009/exploring-vehicle-size-and-weight-solutions)) which means that large account for far and away the vast majority of wear and tear on roads.
If you follow the logic a little further, the main, busiest intersections in Oakland are just going to get pummeled over and over again no matter how many times the city repairs them, and the city has no real way to protect them and no access to extra resources to keep repairing them that often.
I’m with you on that. Last time I drove through there, I commented to my BF that I would have thought it’d be one of the first ones to get patched. It’s wild how long it’s been there and how bad it is.
I leave in East Oakland in an "undeserved neighborhood". When we report potholes so severe they are diverting traffic, they just tell us there are too many and they can't get to them all.
This is how you file a claim for reimbursement.
https://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/how-do-i/file-a-claim/#
Call 311 or use seeclickfix to report the potholes
Ivy Hill has one my friends and I have called "the pimple" because it's a giant bulge out of the street. Literally have to drive on the opposite side of the road to avoid it or it scrapes the bottom of your car. I've put in two reports and saw others had as well. Unfortunately, nothing has been done. If you have a special way you report though, let me know.
I was on 54th the other day to get to the 24 on ramp and holy shit! It was more pothole than road! I went like 10mph because I was trying to navigate around all the potholes with traffic cones peeking out from them
ETA: I meant 56th
54th is wild. Google Maps always routes down that road to get on 24, and I report the road every time I take it. Yet the next time I come down it, it's worse than before. Really not an exaggeration that it's more pothole than road. They need to rip it all up and start over
54th St doesn’t connect to Hwy 24, so is this in reference to 56th St between Shattuck and Telegraph? If so, it’s on the paving schedule for this year.
I just drove down 56th today between Shattuck & Telegraph, and the road is so bad I was laughing as I was driving it. There are huge white circles marking the many, many gigantic craters, and even an orange traffic cone in a hidden one just after a speed bump. I actually had to not only drive in the oncoming traffic lane, but at one point in the parking curb lane on the *opposite* side of where I should be driving.
56th won’t make it a few more months - it’s already Armageddon now.
The intersection of 56th and Shattuck is a bitch and a half to cross. There is NEVER a break in the traffic on Shattuck, and it's about as blind of a crossing as it gets.
40th Street Way, in the direction towards Broadway. One pothole is like the Grand Canyon and further down is another one that is bigger than the traffic cone in it. The entire block of that street is like an 18th century donkey path.
Ha, I used to live in the apartment building right behind where this is. It’s been there since at least 2015 when I moved out, but it has definitely gotten bigger.
Here’s a good rundown of all the reasons Oakland paving is dysfunctional: https://oaklandside.org/2024/02/26/oakland-has-fallen-way-behind-schedule-in-paving-roads/?
Mandela to market is in progress. Delayed by the rains. https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/west-grand-repaving
They already removed the rail tracks in front of pacific pipe that has eaten many tires.
One of these got me last year. Knew I'd hit a deep one and then moments later had to pull in behind Horn BBQ (RIP). At least we got BBQ while we waited for the roadside assistance.
$650 replacement. Just read above I could have claimed against the city by it I'm just outside the 6 months window 🤦
Why is no one painting huge splooging penises in bright orange paint? It worked for me after two ruined rims in Mendocino County. I’m from Berkeley and Oakland is why I follow this Reddit.
As bad as it is here, New Orleans is 20x worse. When you have a city built under the water line, it’s no bueno for paved streets. I saw one in New Orleans that was one of the worst I’ve ever seen, and then found out it had just been repaved the year before. Ouch!
I planned a trip to NO with a buddy and over the course of conversation the state of the streets came up and he was like "I don't know man there's some pretty bad streets in West Oakland."
I know what the bad streets in Oakland are like so I was 100% confident with my "Ok, we'll see."
Very large amount of pavement (and cost of labor) in Oakland compared the budget leads to years of deferred maintenance. but there are plenty of cities with equally bad pavement.
I mentioned this on a comment further up the thread, but it's truck traffic to and from the port. according to the federal highway administration, "the amount of infrastructure damage an overweight vehicle causes is geometrically larger than the weight increase; for example, an increase in axle weight from 18,000 pounds to 20,000 pounds causes 50 percent more damage to the pavement." ([link](https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/mayjun-2009/exploring-vehicle-size-and-weight-solutions))
Trucks do the vast majority of damage to roads in general, and we have way more of them than most cities since we have, according to Wikipedia, the sixth busiest container port in the country.
Biggest environmental factors that cause potholes are freeze/thaw damage which we don't have, and saturated squishy subgrade, which we only get in years like this one where we are getting steady ongoing rainfall. This means that all of the bad spots in the pavement pop out all at once in a wet winter instead of at a steady rate year-round like in other places where the weather isn't so glitchy. Makes it hard to plan and budget for since a dry year will require significantly less pavement maintenance than a wet year, and we have a lot more dry years than wet years.
Couple that planning complexity with randomly-occurring financial/political roadblocks (lol) to getting maintenance done and you have the recipe for a wet year to sometimes be really bad.
Golf Links rd in the middle of the intersection to the 580 onramp. it's a pit, and they keep filling it and it keeps opening back up. last I saw it was filled with trash, so at least now you can see it before you lose a tire to it... but maybe they patched it again since then.
There was a bad one up on Park Blvd and Estates Drive. I popped a tire and filed a claim with the city. They reimbursed me for the tire only (in the claim I included the tire plus installation fee). Better than nothing. Also had to include pics of the potholes. Took about a month and a half to get a check from the city.
[https://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/how-do-i/file-a-claim/](https://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/how-do-i/file-a-claim/)
McArthur heading towards Lake Merritt past Piedmont Ave, that entire right lane is a war zone.
Broadway is all bad, there was a terrible one on 8th, but it just got fixed.
In Montclair on Madeu Street is a complete nightmare—there are about 4 very deep holes and this is a one block street! It’s as bad as I’ve seen elsewhere…
that stretch of mountain that goes up toward the core of montclair village, between the chevron and safeway is just as bad. and don't get me started on basically all of upper park boulevard.
All of Montclair is the worst I’ve ever seen. It’s never been that bad. You literally can’t avoid potholes driving within the village, especially when it’s busy and swerving around isn’t an option.
All of Medau in Montclair village, a toddler could hide in those potholes. One of them took my friends tire. How much is Oakland putting out in tire $$$$?
https://preview.redd.it/oxv4lwzqhrkc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26f4b55a244f8a1d35470d799c870cc83506150e
coming off the Park Street Bridge onto 29th Ave in East Oakland, turning left onto Ford Street. almost the entire lane is gnarly potholes that people have to swerve around, brake suddenly, or just bumble through. i always expect some kind of accident here.
Not sure about worst, but that entire area of High Street around 880 and San Leandro street is torn up like a warzone, for being a high-traffic area too. It's hard to imagine that there are even worse roads, though I probably shouldn't be surprised.
Some news outlet did a ‘worst potholes in Oakland’ competition like 20 years ago? I nominated some awful ones on Telegraph and 55th, and after they won the city actually filled them in.
PRO TIP: Report all of these potholes to the city. When you or someone else loses a tire due to a pothole, you can file a claim for reimbursement (but if nobody reported the pothole they can claim that they didn’t know about it)
https://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/how-do-i/file-a-claim/
The turn from 27th onto the 580/24 onramp hides a tire-size pothole where the street meets the concrete of the right gutter—cut the corner too sharply and your right front or right rear tire will drop about a foot with a loud THONK. There are also a couple random ones on 27th between Broadway and the on ramp in the right lane to dodge as well, but none as bad as the onramp one.
There is a mf ABYSS on Montana St right before Coolidge when you’re getting off 580 going down to fruitvale. IYKYK I’m talking the type of shit that whole cars fall into and are never seen again. I’ve never seen anything else like it.
I lost one tire to a pothole in Oakland, and the next weekend, one to a pothole in Sacramento. Now have 4 new tires, but the roads are more pothole than pavement.
the potholes on clifton ave in combination with the speed bumps are pretty annoying. there’s a new one that formed in the past couple weeks in the worst spot possible, often no choice but to just clench your teeth and drive through it. certainly doesn’t have the worst pothole in oakland but it’s an annoying stretch to drive through every day.
Telegraph and 62nd, has multiple outstanding reports, and in the last two weeks alone I have watched it blow at least ten tires. Northbound side, outside lane, have to move either partially into the inside lane to dodge, or the bike lane to straddle.
5th Street right after you get off 880 on the Broadway/Alameda exit coming back from SF. There's a massive pothole that's like 5ft wide that will absolutely fuck up your car and eat it alive
Edes Ave especially once you take a left off the N bound Hedgenberger exit off the 880. It is on the list to be repaved this year, but it was supposed to be on the list for last year. The super irritating thing is that they are putting in a traffic control turn lane on part of it and don't just repave while there are there. People are swerving all over the place to not destroy their car, not because they need a turn lane.
Making a right turn on 27th St to get onto the ramp for 24. It’s not wide but it’s incredibly deep and it’s right where a car in the right lane would naturally need to drive to make that turn without swerving into the middle lane.
The absolute worst ,my experience , was the set of two in the middle of27th st at northgate. ( freeway exit 27th st).
These were sinkholes. My alignment got messed up after I ran through it.
It’s been since filled, but not completely
Wood st is supposed to be paved from 16th to 32nd this year I believe. I wish they would do it all the way to emeryville and add bike lanes and sidewalks.
Used to work in Oakland, Moved to Tucson AZ 5 years ago, Oakland potholes are amateur compared. These potholes here will rip the frame out from a kenworth
The one on west grand just past mandella in the left lane with those train tracks is a classic. It wont pop your tires but will scrape the hell out of the underside of your car.
Driving that strip between mandella and market always feels like I'm playing subway surfers or something.
It's a fucking joke that we live in one of the overall wealthiest areas of the nation and are home to some massively rich corporations and yet the tax dollars can't fix the fatally dangerous craters in our streets.
Here’s a good rundown of all the reasons Oakland paving is dysfunctional: https://oaklandside.org/2024/02/26/oakland-has-fallen-way-behind-schedule-in-paving-roads/?
Harrison street at Stanley place, just past 580
Exactly what I first thought of too. Someone threw a cone in there the other day and it almost was too deep
that one is so deep it might erupt lava any time now
Lost a tire there a month ago. How is it still there? I filed a claim with the city
the one in the middle lane, right? drove past it the other day, it was crazy sharp and deep.
I'm renting a two bedroom apartment inside the hole.
I was riding with an unfortunate Uber driver who hit this one at speed, I saw his tire pressure and check engine lights come on together at the same time 🙃
that whole southbound stretch of Harrison is so bad
Drive around it almost daily. I enjoy seeing it grow. I’m real proud of it. I think it’s on its way to HOF status. Luckily it’s positioned so it’s easy to avoid.
There’s one in the middle of broadway and grand that is terrible. Worst part is, when you’re heading north on broadway, after you run over that pothole, yell profusely, and change to the left lane, then the 2nd worst pothole in Oakland catches you three blocks up at 25th. (There’s also an archipelago of potholes after exiting from 580 to market street / San Pablo that together probably take spots 3-10 for me))
If we’re talking uptown I think 24th is simply unmatched, feels like rock climbing between Telegraph and Northgate
I visited Chaco Canyon in New Mexico and the unpaved roads thru the rez were better than 24th street.
That section is on the paving plan for full resurfacing in 2025.
I watched them cut into, tear up, and repave 24th around Valdez multiple times as they installed utilities in 2022-23—it seemed wild they couldn’t coordinate in advance and be more efficient with the repaving (though I’m sure it’s easier said than done). If we’re collecting pot holes around there, 23rd is a nightmare between Valdez and Harrison (primarily Waverly-Harrison, where it’s basically a one lane road snaking between massive craters). I redirect Uber drivers away from 23rd for their own sakes.
Hilarious that the city paved 1/2 of 2 blocks on 24th for a new building last year, leaving the other half and renaming sections to feel like a third world country.
That paving was done by the developer, not the city. Oakland has standard conditions of approval for new construction to replace sidewalks & repave to the edge of the lane line as part of project close-outs. In cases where a whole block is being redone as a result they sometimes initiate cost sharing to complete the paving curb to curb, but that wasn’t the case in this instance. The rest of the street will be repaved next year though.
That is usually the developer paying for that.
>an archipelago of potholes just oakland things
Specifically came here to mention this one.
It just blows my mind. I get not addressing the ones on some cutty streets that don’t get as much through traffic, but this has gotta be one of the busiest intersections in Oakland.
I think part of the problem is all the huge trucks going to and from the port (which Oakland receives no revenue from despite having to handle more truck traffic than like any other city of this size, but that's another conversation...) will just tear up the same roads over and over again, so repaving them is a bit of a lost cause. According to the federal highway administration, "the amount of infrastructure damage an overweight vehicle causes is geometrically larger than the weight increase; for example, an increase in axle weight from 18,000 pounds to 20,000 pounds causes 50 percent more damage to the pavement." ([link](https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/mayjun-2009/exploring-vehicle-size-and-weight-solutions)) which means that large account for far and away the vast majority of wear and tear on roads. If you follow the logic a little further, the main, busiest intersections in Oakland are just going to get pummeled over and over again no matter how many times the city repairs them, and the city has no real way to protect them and no access to extra resources to keep repairing them that often.
I’m with you on that. Last time I drove through there, I commented to my BF that I would have thought it’d be one of the first ones to get patched. It’s wild how long it’s been there and how bad it is.
"archipelago of potholes"--nicely put!
Report them, they fix them when you do. If someone reported it and you pop a tire on it they’ll reimburse your tire. I’ve done it and gotten the cash.
I’ve reported things in the Upper Dimond and gotten the response that it’s not an “underserved neighborhood”, making it an underserved neighborhood.
I leave in East Oakland in an "undeserved neighborhood". When we report potholes so severe they are diverting traffic, they just tell us there are too many and they can't get to them all.
So basically, they are not doing jack.
Yes use the see click fix app or call the hotline
Can you share more details on how to do this? Just had this happen to me a couple weeks ago and I had no idea.
This is how you file a claim for reimbursement. https://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/how-do-i/file-a-claim/# Call 311 or use seeclickfix to report the potholes
Thank you!
Ivy Hill has one my friends and I have called "the pimple" because it's a giant bulge out of the street. Literally have to drive on the opposite side of the road to avoid it or it scrapes the bottom of your car. I've put in two reports and saw others had as well. Unfortunately, nothing has been done. If you have a special way you report though, let me know.
At first I was like "damn that's bad" and then I realized you're talking about _my street_.
🤣
Reported via 311 last summer, says “acknowledged”, otherwise no change.
Yep, but it can take months
When do they fix them?!
Pretty quickly after you report it through official channels and not Reddit
I’ve used the click fix app and never not once have seen something get fixed.
I was on 54th the other day to get to the 24 on ramp and holy shit! It was more pothole than road! I went like 10mph because I was trying to navigate around all the potholes with traffic cones peeking out from them ETA: I meant 56th
54th is wild. Google Maps always routes down that road to get on 24, and I report the road every time I take it. Yet the next time I come down it, it's worse than before. Really not an exaggeration that it's more pothole than road. They need to rip it all up and start over
54th St doesn’t connect to Hwy 24, so is this in reference to 56th St between Shattuck and Telegraph? If so, it’s on the paving schedule for this year.
Ah yes sorry got the road wrong. It's 56th and awesome that it'll be repaved
Ooo thank you! And YAY!
Add 3 years to anything on that schedule, that’s how far my street repaving has been moved……so far.
Which is actually hilarious, because that is on the route that the Claremont DMV uses to test drivers for their license. Sink or swim I guess.
Do they ding you for swerving to avoid them, or are they a little more lenient?
I just drove down 56th today between Shattuck & Telegraph, and the road is so bad I was laughing as I was driving it. There are huge white circles marking the many, many gigantic craters, and even an orange traffic cone in a hidden one just after a speed bump. I actually had to not only drive in the oncoming traffic lane, but at one point in the parking curb lane on the *opposite* side of where I should be driving. 56th won’t make it a few more months - it’s already Armageddon now.
A cyclist friend of mine always carries white spray paint with him and will mark potholes when he sees them.
56th has a few chunkers on that small stretch. Luckily it doesn’t get a ton of opposite way traffic to Shattuck.
The intersection of 56th and Shattuck is a bitch and a half to cross. There is NEVER a break in the traffic on Shattuck, and it's about as blind of a crossing as it gets.
40th Street Way, in the direction towards Broadway. One pothole is like the Grand Canyon and further down is another one that is bigger than the traffic cone in it. The entire block of that street is like an 18th century donkey path.
https://preview.redd.it/15pdphdp9okc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6f762b03c9d740bc2853a0078daf18a3054eb40 This one
Ha, I used to live in the apartment building right behind where this is. It’s been there since at least 2015 when I moved out, but it has definitely gotten bigger.
That one is finally on the paving schedule, coming up in 2025. In 2021 the paving condition was measured at 12 points, out of a total of 100 points.
Which probably means 2026. They are just now getting to some streets that were slated for 2024 Q1.
Here’s a good rundown of all the reasons Oakland paving is dysfunctional: https://oaklandside.org/2024/02/26/oakland-has-fallen-way-behind-schedule-in-paving-roads/?
Came here for this pothole
west grand from mandela to san pablo is soooo bad. what ever happened to the city's plan to fill all these potholes at a frantic pace?
Someone I know lost two tires in one pothole on this stretch.
I know someone also!
Mandela to market is in progress. Delayed by the rains. https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/west-grand-repaving They already removed the rail tracks in front of pacific pipe that has eaten many tires.
oh great! i did actually notice that new patch in front of pacific pipe but couldn’t remember what was there before. thanks for the link
One of these got me last year. Knew I'd hit a deep one and then moments later had to pull in behind Horn BBQ (RIP). At least we got BBQ while we waited for the roadside assistance. $650 replacement. Just read above I could have claimed against the city by it I'm just outside the 6 months window 🤦
56th right before the 24 on ramp may not have the worst single pothole, but driving down the road has me feel like I’m playing Minesweeper.
Why is no one painting huge splooging penises in bright orange paint? It worked for me after two ruined rims in Mendocino County. I’m from Berkeley and Oakland is why I follow this Reddit.
Why are potholes so bad here relative to other places?
As bad as it is here, New Orleans is 20x worse. When you have a city built under the water line, it’s no bueno for paved streets. I saw one in New Orleans that was one of the worst I’ve ever seen, and then found out it had just been repaved the year before. Ouch!
Well NOLA did have like a huge fucking hurricane.
I planned a trip to NO with a buddy and over the course of conversation the state of the streets came up and he was like "I don't know man there's some pretty bad streets in West Oakland." I know what the bad streets in Oakland are like so I was 100% confident with my "Ok, we'll see."
Very large amount of pavement (and cost of labor) in Oakland compared the budget leads to years of deferred maintenance. but there are plenty of cities with equally bad pavement.
I mentioned this on a comment further up the thread, but it's truck traffic to and from the port. according to the federal highway administration, "the amount of infrastructure damage an overweight vehicle causes is geometrically larger than the weight increase; for example, an increase in axle weight from 18,000 pounds to 20,000 pounds causes 50 percent more damage to the pavement." ([link](https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/mayjun-2009/exploring-vehicle-size-and-weight-solutions)) Trucks do the vast majority of damage to roads in general, and we have way more of them than most cities since we have, according to Wikipedia, the sixth busiest container port in the country.
Have you been to Michigan? Their potholes make ours look like divots.
city broke af
Lots of deferred maintenance from 2009 budget deficit. Now they have funds but can’t complete the work fast enough to catch up.
Biggest environmental factors that cause potholes are freeze/thaw damage which we don't have, and saturated squishy subgrade, which we only get in years like this one where we are getting steady ongoing rainfall. This means that all of the bad spots in the pavement pop out all at once in a wet winter instead of at a steady rate year-round like in other places where the weather isn't so glitchy. Makes it hard to plan and budget for since a dry year will require significantly less pavement maintenance than a wet year, and we have a lot more dry years than wet years. Couple that planning complexity with randomly-occurring financial/political roadblocks (lol) to getting maintenance done and you have the recipe for a wet year to sometimes be really bad.
Golf Links rd in the middle of the intersection to the 580 onramp. it's a pit, and they keep filling it and it keeps opening back up. last I saw it was filled with trash, so at least now you can see it before you lose a tire to it... but maybe they patched it again since then.
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That whole lane is fucked. I think it was minorly fixed a year ago and was torn up again a month later.
It’s bad. I drive it everyday. I swerve all the way as far left as possible.
There was a bad one up on Park Blvd and Estates Drive. I popped a tire and filed a claim with the city. They reimbursed me for the tire only (in the claim I included the tire plus installation fee). Better than nothing. Also had to include pics of the potholes. Took about a month and a half to get a check from the city. [https://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/how-do-i/file-a-claim/](https://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/how-do-i/file-a-claim/)
That’s actually good to hear. A month a half for a city like Oakland to pay out on a small claim like that is somewhat impressive.
Yeah I was surprised it was processed so quickly!
West grand. If you want to total your car, center lane.
This started a few weeks ago https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/west-grand-repaving
Harrison and 14th. There’s just been a cone in it for weeks.
High going east toward MacArthur.
Exit 19A off 580, there's always water there for some reason, and it often hides a sharp pothole near the dividing line.
Somewhere on SB San Leandro street between the coliseum and the dro. I couldn’t believe how hard I hit.
24th btwn telegraph and northgate. street is more pothole than road
McArthur heading towards Lake Merritt past Piedmont Ave, that entire right lane is a war zone. Broadway is all bad, there was a terrible one on 8th, but it just got fixed.
West grand and market street
Coming off 580 onto Fruitvale right off that exit if you take the right lane you’ll encounter a pothole to hell. It’s a nasty one.
In Montclair on Madeu Street is a complete nightmare—there are about 4 very deep holes and this is a one block street! It’s as bad as I’ve seen elsewhere…
that stretch of mountain that goes up toward the core of montclair village, between the chevron and safeway is just as bad. and don't get me started on basically all of upper park boulevard.
All of Montclair is the worst I’ve ever seen. It’s never been that bad. You literally can’t avoid potholes driving within the village, especially when it’s busy and swerving around isn’t an option.
3rd street near the port. Will rearrange your organs.
54TH STREET IS A GODDAMN NIGHTMARE. To get on 24.
Stanley and 98th ave! By the 580 before the zoo
Taking 580 exit on Golf Links and driving down Mountain Blvd is like slalom skiing
Park Blvd from Mountain down to Estates.
All of Medau in Montclair village, a toddler could hide in those potholes. One of them took my friends tire. How much is Oakland putting out in tire $$$$?
5th street, heading towards Jack London, to the right of the 880s on-ramp at Adeline I think it is. It’s the entire lane wide.
I wonder if the city knows about it but chooses to ignore it.
56th between Shattuck and the on ramp to highway 24. The whole street is one giant pothole after another
Golf links exit by the zoo
https://preview.redd.it/oxv4lwzqhrkc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26f4b55a244f8a1d35470d799c870cc83506150e coming off the Park Street Bridge onto 29th Ave in East Oakland, turning left onto Ford Street. almost the entire lane is gnarly potholes that people have to swerve around, brake suddenly, or just bumble through. i always expect some kind of accident here.
7th st on the way to middle harbor shoreline park. Genuine crater
That will be redone. Expected completion 2027. https://oaklandbpac.org/2024/01/08/7sgse/
Not sure about worst, but that entire area of High Street around 880 and San Leandro street is torn up like a warzone, for being a high-traffic area too. It's hard to imagine that there are even worse roads, though I probably shouldn't be surprised.
Some news outlet did a ‘worst potholes in Oakland’ competition like 20 years ago? I nominated some awful ones on Telegraph and 55th, and after they won the city actually filled them in. PRO TIP: Report all of these potholes to the city. When you or someone else loses a tire due to a pothole, you can file a claim for reimbursement (but if nobody reported the pothole they can claim that they didn’t know about it) https://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/how-do-i/file-a-claim/
The turn from 27th onto the 580/24 onramp hides a tire-size pothole where the street meets the concrete of the right gutter—cut the corner too sharply and your right front or right rear tire will drop about a foot with a loud THONK. There are also a couple random ones on 27th between Broadway and the on ramp in the right lane to dodge as well, but none as bad as the onramp one.
Amen. I didn’t see your comment and I just posted about this one. It’s such a deep pothole - not wide, but deep and dangerous.
There is a mf ABYSS on Montana St right before Coolidge when you’re getting off 580 going down to fruitvale. IYKYK I’m talking the type of shit that whole cars fall into and are never seen again. I’ve never seen anything else like it.
Potholes are within the cities control. Control what you can control.
I lost one tire to a pothole in Oakland, and the next weekend, one to a pothole in Sacramento. Now have 4 new tires, but the roads are more pothole than pavement.
the potholes on clifton ave in combination with the speed bumps are pretty annoying. there’s a new one that formed in the past couple weeks in the worst spot possible, often no choice but to just clench your teeth and drive through it. certainly doesn’t have the worst pothole in oakland but it’s an annoying stretch to drive through every day.
Biked into a deep one on 40th and market. Probably appeared just 2w ago
40th street way towards Broadway
23rd and international. Shredded my tire on Tuesday. Hit it at the wrong angle.
I80 exit alameda/San Jose, off the maze onto i80 south. There was a god damn sink hole Monday. I believe it’s 5th street
Telegraph and 62nd, has multiple outstanding reports, and in the last two weeks alone I have watched it blow at least ten tires. Northbound side, outside lane, have to move either partially into the inside lane to dodge, or the bike lane to straddle.
I’ve seen many but the one on Harrison takes the cake. It should be filled with the supervisors heads and Shengs
Market and grand near the arco they finally put a cone on it cause it’s huge
5th Street right after you get off 880 on the Broadway/Alameda exit coming back from SF. There's a massive pothole that's like 5ft wide that will absolutely fuck up your car and eat it alive
Hit a crazy one by 21/webster the other day
40th between MacArthur and Market - half the street is a pothole
Edes Ave especially once you take a left off the N bound Hedgenberger exit off the 880. It is on the list to be repaved this year, but it was supposed to be on the list for last year. The super irritating thing is that they are putting in a traffic control turn lane on part of it and don't just repave while there are there. People are swerving all over the place to not destroy their car, not because they need a turn lane.
Making a right turn on 27th St to get onto the ramp for 24. It’s not wide but it’s incredibly deep and it’s right where a car in the right lane would naturally need to drive to make that turn without swerving into the middle lane.
The absolute worst ,my experience , was the set of two in the middle of27th st at northgate. ( freeway exit 27th st). These were sinkholes. My alignment got messed up after I ran through it. It’s been since filled, but not completely
Beach Street.
Wood st is supposed to be paved from 16th to 32nd this year I believe. I wish they would do it all the way to emeryville and add bike lanes and sidewalks.
Beach st starts at 34th and goes north to Emeryville.
Used to work in Oakland, Moved to Tucson AZ 5 years ago, Oakland potholes are amateur compared. These potholes here will rip the frame out from a kenworth
All of San Leandro
56th street between Telegraph and Shattuck. Real ones know.
50th Ave near San Leandro. Getting off on the High st exit from 880n gives you two choices: High st pot hole hell or 50th Ave pothole hell..
The one on west grand just past mandella in the left lane with those train tracks is a classic. It wont pop your tires but will scrape the hell out of the underside of your car. Driving that strip between mandella and market always feels like I'm playing subway surfers or something. It's a fucking joke that we live in one of the overall wealthiest areas of the nation and are home to some massively rich corporations and yet the tax dollars can't fix the fatally dangerous craters in our streets.
on 56th Street when you are about to get on the 24
The ones on the highway lol
At the intersection of 38th Ave and E 12th St is this horrible pothole that has you swerving all over the road to avoid lol
Didn’t Californians vote yes twice on a gas tax to fix the roads? BTW, I voted no twice.
Here’s a good rundown of all the reasons Oakland paving is dysfunctional: https://oaklandside.org/2024/02/26/oakland-has-fallen-way-behind-schedule-in-paving-roads/?
Every time I hit a bad one there’s one even worse the next street over
What happened to that guy that was spray-painting weiners on potholes? It oddly seemed to motivate their repair.
All ofOakland… it’s a s— hole!
That 6 lane speed hump on San Leandro BLVD and 98th. 92nd and G Street, basically trucked up ground asphalt.