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Latest — 14 Jul 2025

Speak up for sidewalks, and another tragic loss

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

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Speak up for more traffic safety projects, sooner!

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.

Oaklanders commit to advocate for contracting reform

About two dozen Oaklanders from across the city gathered this week to learn about the agonizingly slow process Oakland uses to approve safety infrastructure projects in the city, and award the contracts to do the work. What they learned surprised and frustrated them. Why do we care? Because traffic safety

Reminder: Learn how we can get more done faster and cheaper!

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

What the heck is "Contracting Reform"?

“Contracting reform” may not be on your radar right now, but if you want more safe streets, we need your attention for a few. It's not so complicated! Oakland has rules for awarding contracts for paving and many other services. These are all well-meaning, aiming to assure that