  I'd like to just say that a speed limit of 25 mph just about everywhere in the city is ludicrous. Let me provide some background.
Alameda is an old town. It's got a lot of history, it's got a lot of people too, particularly for a residential town. Parts of them are pretty bad, especially near the Oakland border. Parts of them are EXTREMELY rich, like Bay Farm Island. New homeowners are particularly loaded. Houses here go for $600,000 and up. People here tend to be older, as far as I can tell, or family people.
What does this mean? Apparently, it means that driving at reasonable speeds is unfathomable to them. That means people with any sort of driving capability, like me, are sentenced to drive at some nutsoid speed like 25 mph. School zones? Fine. Hospital zones? Fine. But main streets and thoroughfares at 25 mph? That is, I reiterate, INSANE. Try it sometime! Drive down the street, at 25 mph. See if that doesn't get you a few... fingers.
This is unreasonable. In fact, it takes a good 25+ minutes to go 5 miles. Idiots. I don't know if the police enjoy it. I don't even know if it's their prefernce to do it or enforce it. They're doing their job, enforcing the law. And that's fine. But this is just idiocy. In an age where the freeway speed has been upped to 65 mph, 25 mph in any road in the city is sheer idiocy. I wonder how many lives this regulation really saves. 
