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CASTRO VALLEY FORUM A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SERVING CASTRO VALLEY SINCE 1989
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2021
YEAR 33
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The CHP has been stepping up efforts to enforce speed laws in the county.
Regardless the method of cooking, homemade pizza is a slice of heaven
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CHP ISSUES WARNING: DRIVE AT A SAFE, LEGAL SPEED OR YOU WILL GET A TICKET
SENIORS By Michael Singer
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PACE program helps elders live independently in their own home
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A recent rash of speeding cars on the freeway and city streets around town is prompting the California Highway Patrol to issue a warning: Drive at a safe, legal speed or you will get a ticket. Last week, four CHP officers generated 30 speeding citations in the unincorporated area of Alameda County (including Castro Valley, Ashland, and Cherryland) in only a few hours, according to CHP Officer Dan Jacowitz. “For the last several months and in all of 2020, we have been doing speed details and doing focused enforcement,” Officer Jacowitz said. “Our primary focus is speed reduction for county roads where we see the largest number of people driving at unsafe speeds.” Officer Jacowitz called out Redwood Road, Lake Chabot Road, and especially Crow Canyon Road as the hot spots for hot rods. A recent measurement of traffic along Crow Canyon, for example, found some vehicles traveling 82-mph in a 40-mph zone. To help alert drivers to their speeds and serve as a visual deterrent, the CHP often installs trailers that posts the speed limit and then flashes the vehicle’s speed as it’s ap-
Local residents struggling to come up with a down payment on their first house can benefit from a new Alameda County program, AC Boost. “Affordable housing in the Bay Area is a consistent challenge, particularly for those in service professions like first responders, teachers and childcare providers, and healthcare workers,” said Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, whose district includes Castro Valley. Miley said a regrettable history of redlining and racially-based resource inequity in Alameda County urgently requires active mitigation and social reparation.
AC Boost is a $50 million program aimed at working people of modest means. It provides loans of up to $210,000 to households earning up to $125,600 for a family of four. Income cutoffs are lower or higher for smaller and larger families, respectively. Families with somewhat higher incomes are covered for a $160,000 forgivable loan if their income is under $150,700 or less, for a family of four. Loans don’t have to be repaid until the house is sold or until the 30 year term has ended. “The AC Boost program is a step in the right direction to address these longstanding barriers to wealth accumulation, and also an opportunity see HOME on page 14
BART Returns To Near-Regular Train Schedule The CHP issued this ticket for a person driving 141 mph on I-580 East
proaching. While these are intended to deter speeding, Officer Jacowitz notes that there are often officers waiting nearby to enforce those safe speeds. “It’s an ongoing enforcement effort for sure,” Officer Jacowitz said. “We’ve been providing education to the public through community outreach and showcasing on our Facebook page anyone who has been caught driving more than 100-mph. Hopefully, these unsafe drivers can see that it doesn’t pay to speed.” see SLOW on page 3
BART returned to near-regular service on Monday, Aug. 2, with weekday service returning to 5 a.m. to midnight service. The schedule change includes increased frequencies and extending closing times to midnight Mondays through Saturdays, along with an increase in direct trips to San Francisco Airport (SFO) on weekdays, BART announced. The new schedule is similar to the one before the pandemic
began, but with a couple of differences. BART will have some service expansions, but some areas will not return to pre-pandemic levels, such as the extra commuter trains on the Antioch-SFO (Yellow) line during peak hours. Sunday service will continue to run at 30-minute frequencies and a 9 p.m. closure to accommodate BART’s critical cable replacement project and other infrastructure rebuilding work.
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