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Committee backs deaccession of Broadway underpass artwork to clear way for undercrossing safety and wayfinding upgrades
Summary
OakDOT staff and committee members agreed to deaccession the Broadway I‑880 underpass public art, citing maintenance problems, new Caltrans transportation‑art requirements and the need to widen sidewalks and install pedestrian lighting and neighborhood wayfinding. Removal is scheduled for 2027; replacement artwork on Caltrans right‑of‑way is unlikely without separate funding and lengthy Caltrans review.
Oakland’s Public Art Advisory Committee voted April 6 to deaccession the public artwork installed at the I‑880 Broadway underpass, a long‑running project staff said has repeatedly failed to meet safety and maintenance objectives.
Ruth Mesa, a transportation planner in OakDOT’s major projects division, said the undercrossing improvement project will add pedestrian‑scale lighting, repaint columns with neighborhood wayfinding text and remove in‑ground uplighting and guardrail elements that are part of the current artwork. Mesa told the committee the city plans to submit construction permits this year and that “the art would be removed in 2027, and then…
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