The BPAC Infrastructure Committee meeting will be held on Thursday, September 4, 2025, 3:30-5:30pm in-person at the Broadway Conference Room (4th floor) at 250 Frank Ogawa Plaza building.
Agenda topics include:
Highway Safety Improvement Program Projects Update
Thursday, August 21, 2025; 6-8pm, in-person meeting Carmen Flores Recreation Center, Josie de la Cruz Park,
1637 Fruitvale Ave, Oakland, CA 94601 (near Fruitvale BART), and viewable online.
At the July 17, 2025 BPAC meeting, Manuel Corona, Transportation Planner in the Major Project Division at OakDOT, presented the completed Chinatown Complete Streets Plan. The Plan includes an existing conditions evaluation, community engagement, and the proposed conceptual plans for three corridors through Oakland Chinatown.
An excerpt is below, followed by the full presentation.
BPAC Open House / Meet and Greet
Wednesday, August 13, 2025 from 6:30-7:30 pm at the Cesar Chavez Library Meeting Room, near Fruitvale BART (César E. Chávez Branch 3301 East 12th Street, Suite 271).
At the July 28, 2025 BPAC Policy and Legislative Committee meeting, Liza Lutzker will present on “Examining the Safety-Safety Dilemma: Preliminary Findings from a Study of Conflicts between Safe Streets Improvements and Emergency Response”.
Cities across the United States (U.S.) are encountering mounting tensions between efforts to improve street infrastructure for pedestrian and bicyclist safety (e.g., protected bike lanes, speed tables) and concerns from fire departments that such changes can impede emergency response and evacuation. However, emergency response and street safety need not be incompatible goals. Cities across the U.S. are developing innovative solutions, addressing the physical, institutional, and cultural roots of these conflicts.
Under a grant from the US Department of Transportation and the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety, our UC Berkeley team is completing an exploratory research project to better understand the roots of conflicts and innovative means of overcoming conflicts. Under a grant from the US Department of Transportation and the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety, our UC Berkeley team is completing an exploratory research project to better understand the roots of conflicts and innovative means of overcoming conflicts between street safety efforts and fire and emergency response priorities.
An excerpt is below, followed by the full presentation.
At the July 17, 2025 BPAC meeting, Jasmine Stitt, Caltrans District 4 Complete Streets Performance Coordinator, provided a presentation on the draft Caltrans Bay Area Bike Plan Update, with a focus on recommendations and priorities related to Oakland. This updated bike plan analyzed conditions for biking along and across the State Transportation Network in the nine county Bay Area, and identified priority improvements to provide a more connected, lower-stress bicycle transportation network in our region.
At the July 3, 2025 BPAC Infrastructure Committee meeting, OakDOT Bicycle and Pedestrian Program staff will present draft recommendations for a Slow Streets network in Oakland. Slow Streets were initially an OakDOT innovation during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide physically distanced outdoor spaces for residents. Staff are taking lessons learned from the pandemic and applying them to Oakland’s work-to-date developing bike boulevards and neighborhood bike routes (NBRs). Staff are proposing these routes be re-envisioned as slow streets for travel at human-powered speeds while simultaneously making these streets more welcoming for residents to use as public spaces. The presentation explains the purpose, planning criteria, and methodology for developing the draft Slow Streets network. View the interactive web map of the draft Slow Streets network.
An excerpt is below, followed by the full presentation.
Oakland BPAC Blog 