Re: Riding a bike a protection and in general

On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:28:23 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 6/20/2025 12:39 PM, cyclintom wrote:

(...)

Frank, on Tuesday I had dinner with my cop friend who saved my life, and breakfast the next morning. He told me that there were 5 cases of bicyclists being held up at gunpoint on Redwood Road and their wallets and bicycles stolen.

Wow. That's horrible, Tom! Five cases in what length of time?

I don't believe Tom's version, but the story might have been for real
3 years ago.  The reason I don't believe it is that Redwood Rd was
closed for an unknown number of years.  I don't want to slog through
this mess trying to find the closing and reopening dates:
<https://acsearch.acgov.org/s/search.html?query=redwood+road&collection=acpwa&form=acpwa&profile=acpwa>

This video is from 2022:
"Armed Thieves Target Cyclists in East Bay Hills"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7P-Josj0WY>

More:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/BAbike/comments/107d4qa/the_state_of_redwood_road_in_oakland_yesterday/>
<https://www.google.com/search?q=redwood%20rd%20oakland%20closed%20opened>

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