Oakland is not changing, Oakland has the strictest gun laws of any Bay Area city, next to Richmond and Vallejo. The strict laws have done nothing to curb violence and to take freedoms away from the few Law abiding citizens left. I mean Oakland is the city where a shrine was created for a cop killer. Even Anthony Bates gave up on the city he came to save. Cops can't even draw their guns on a known dangerous suspect unless they are white, how are the cops to do their job with with their hands tied behind their backs. Nothing will change unless all the socialist progressives stop running the city and Oakland burns to the ground and is rebuilt, It is too far gone to save.

Kind of a waste to save the 16th st station when Amtrak doesn't even stop there. The locals most likely won't respect it, as it will only end up covered in graffiti and urine like every thing else in Oakland. better of just bulldozing it like the roundhouse. Why save it when all the rest of Oakland's RR past has been destroyed over the last 10 or so years Why this one building?