OAKLAND — Standing in his motorcycle shop on E. 10th Street, Tyler Carson had trouble envisioning how a 30,000-seat baseball stadium could be plopped down two blocks away. He could, however, imagine the foot traffic and parking nightmares if the Oakland Athletics decide to build near Laney College.
“I’m upset they painted half the curb across the street red,” Carson, who has owned Hayasa Motorbikes since 1998, said wryly. “They will have to put in a huge amount of infrastructure here.”
Two blocks in the other direction, on E. 12th Street, Jose Macias was of the opposite opinion.