Day Miles: 12.1(J) / 12.3(S)
Cumulative Miles: 45.6(J) / 46.0(S)
Day Hours: 1:20(J) / 1:21(S)
Cumulative Hours: 4:53(J) / 4:56(S)
Still clinging to those (safe) areas above 580 in today's ride. Long respite for us. A wet winter and not enough daylight to ride after work has delayed our project, but on we roll. We finish off the Glenview District, and ride by the house where Joel currently lives. Next, Trestle Glen and onward.
Trestle Glen is a gem of a neighborhood, abutting the Lakeshore commercial district, with lovely Tudor homes. I found some great information about this neighborhood in the Lakeshore Homes Association website: Lakeshore Homes Association. As the website explains, "The name Trestle Glen dates back to approximately 1893 when Francis Marion "Borax" Smith's Oakland Traction Company extended a trolley line from Downtown Oakland up Park Boulevard to Grosvenor Place." I love how train development has so defined the neighborhoods in Oakland (you wouldn't know it now). In many instances neighborhoods were created once transportation (trains) was extended to them. It was very common for real estate developers to also be transit operators.
Oakland neighborhoods have so many interesting nuances to them. One of running themes we intend for this blog is documenting many of the idiosyncratic little street features innate to Oakland. Trestle Glen has many urban paths and stairwells connecting its streets. These are common throughout the city, and are currently being inventoried by Oakland Urban Paths. We found this dilapidated example off Alma Place.
Just around the corner from there is a fun little freeway onramp tucked into the end of a block. Visitors who come from newer cities, where every freeway interchange is over-engineered, would never expect that a freeway starts at the end of this street. Excelsior freeway onramp. Joel loves the urban art of Oakland, and took a picture of our avatar with the onramp sign.
Both Joel and I liked this Trestle Glen cul-de-sac's garage dormer and landscaping, including the tree with the custom steel brace.
Cheers,
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