At the June 15, 2023 BPAC meeting, Walk Oakland Bike Oakland’s Board President, Chris Hwang, shared highlights from Bike To Work Day celebrations from May 18, 2023. Natalie Mall, a volunteer who coordinated the project with Oakland Tech High School and Traffic Violence Rapid Response group, also shared highlights from the pop-up traffic safety demo on Broadway, implemented over two days, May 17-18.
An excerpt of the presentation is below, followed by the full presentation.
At the June 15, 2023 BPAC meeting, Fred Kelley, OakDOT Director, Megan Wier, OakDOT Assistant Director, Craig Raphael, OakDOT Senior Transportation Planner, and Tony Dang, OakDOT Policy & Intergovernmental Affairs Senior Advisor, will provide an update on the Fiscal Year 23-25 budget process that is underway, including updates on department leadership, the vacancy rate, organizational challenges, and recent accomplishments.
An excerpt of the presentation is below, followed by the full presentation.
At the June 15, 2023 BPAC meeting, Manuel Corona, Transportation Planner II in OakDOT’s Planning and Project Development Section, will provide an overview of the Chinatown Complete Streets Plan. This Plan will identify a set of key corridors with multimodal upgrades through outreach to complete the conceptual designs necessary to advance the projects future construction grant funding.
An excerpt of the presentation is below, followed by the full presentation.
At the May 25, 2023 BPAC meeting, OakDOT Policy & Intergovernmental Affairs Senior Advisor, Tony Dang, provided the second annual update of the SOS initiative. The SOS Initiative was launched in 2021 with the primary goal of preventing severe and fatal crashes and related disparities impacting Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, persons with disabilities, seniors, children, and low-income populations. This presentation will focus on reporting on progress made in 2022.
The Safe Oakland Streets initiative’s second annual report was also presented at the City Council’s Public Works Committee on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, and Oaklandside covered the item.
An excerpt from the presentation is below, followed by the full presentation and list of projects that was referenced in the slides on Strategy 2: Engineering.
At the May 25, 2023 BPAC meeting, Laura Cohen, Western Region Director for the Rails to Trails Conservancy, presented results of recent work related to the East Bay Greenway: a Multi-jurisdictional Maintenance Strategy Report and a Low-Stress Connectivity Analysis.
An excerpt of the presentation is below, followed by the full presentation.
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