Traffic Violence Rapid Response

A tragic week for Oakland as we mourn the loss of two of our neighbors in one week. Both killed while crossing the street in the crosswalk. We call on Oakland to respond quickly to both fatalities with traffic safety interventions and proactively slow cars to safe speeds throughout all

This past Tuesday, The Transportation Committee forwarded three action items to the full City Council that, if passed, will go a long way towards accelerating OakDOT's ability to make our pedestrian right-of-way safer and more accessible for everyone, but especially folks with limited mobility. Our earlier POST explained

The Oakland Dept. of Transportation (OakDOT) is coming before the Public Works and Transportation Committee of the City Council on Tuesday, July 8th at 11AM with a number of agenda items to streamline the City's response to a pending settlement of a lawsuit over ADA-required pedestrian right-of-way access.

As noted in our last post, Traffic Violence Rapid Response is hosting a teach-in this coming Wednesday on how Oakland's rules for awarding contracts is hampering efforts by OakDOT to make our streets safer, wasting staff time, costing much more, and delaying both the start and completion of