A major new grant announced last week will help Oakland transform one of the city’s most dangerous and neglected thoroughfares into a road where pedestrians, cyclists, and industrial truck drivers can more safely coexist.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, which oversees and funds transit projects across the Bay Area, has approved a $30 million grant to redesign Martin Luther King Jr. Way from Jack London Square at 2nd Street to Old Oakland at 14th Street. The Oakland Department of Transportation will construct a two-way cycle track and add intersection infrastructure to make it easier and safer for people to cross the boulevard, such as traffic islands and concrete bulbouts to narrow the roadway, slow down vehicles, and separate big trucks from people. The plan also includes a

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