The Alameda Transportation Commission met Nov. 18. to review the final draft plans for the Central Avenue redesign project between Main and Sherman streets.

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As a high school senior at Alameda High School who frequented AC Transit buses to get home from school and around town, I’ve been thinking a lot about the effects of COVID on mass transit ridership within Alameda and the Bay.

Alamedans drive past a historic landmark with an Alameda connection whenever they reach Oakland via Doolittle Drive. Aviation history enthusiasts know Oakland Airport played a pivotal role in the development of air travel as we know it today.

The recent article “Mayor Weighs in on Caltrans Project,” Oct. 29, reports on “a bike-pedestrian only bridge connecting Oakland” and the City of West Alameda.

Two families in an Alameda apartment building had a brewing feud for years. It started when the downstairs tenants, the Smiths, complained about the late-night footsteps and television noise coming from the occupants of the upstairs apartment, the Johnsons.

Is it too much for a father to want his grown kids to return to the fold, or at least the same town? Yes, yes it is. As a realist and appreciating the richness of living in new and diverse locales, I don’t expect, or even want, my kids to want to live in Alameda any time soon.

As a prelude to this letter about land use in Alameda, I offer honor and respect to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, whose land this is.

I grew up in the Alameda of the 1950s and ’60s. My parents moved here in 1951. I grew up on Taylor Avenue with easy access to Washington Park where neighborhood kids just walked down the steps of the sea wall and enjoyed the bay.