At the July 6, 2023 BPAC Infrastructure Committee meeting, Jesse Boudart, OakDOT Transportation Engineer, provided an overview of work done to date on community engagement and design for the East Oakland Neighborhood Bike Routes project covering four East Oakland corridors.
An excerpt of the presentation is below, followed by the full presentation [8.2MB PDF] and presentation notes and discussion notes.
Read MoreAt the July 6, 2023 BPAC Infrastructure Committee meeting, Rochelle Wheeler, Senior Transportation Coordinator at the City of Alameda, will lead a discussion about a bicyclist and pedestrian bridge proposal across the estuary between West Alameda and Jack London Square.
An excerpt of the presentation is below, followed by the full presentation [3.8MB PDF] and presentation notes and discussion notes.
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At the July 20, 2023 BPAC meeting, Felicia Bryant, Fire Marshal with the Oakland Fire Department, provided an update on amendments to Appendix D of the Fire Code. In September, the amendments will be presented to the Public Safety Committee of the City Council, following up on amendments adopted by City Council in 2022. Jason Patton, Senior Transportation Planner with OakDOT, helped explain the collaboration between the two departments on implementing traffic safety measures that are supportive of Fire Department operations.
An excerpt of the presentation is below, followed by the full presentation.
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At the July 20, 2023 BPAC meeting, Joe Wang, Supervising Transportation Engineer, and Matthew Reiter, Assistant Engineer II from the OakDOT Safe Streets Traffic Engineering Section presented on the residential speed bump program, which is the most popular program among other DOT workflows that have recently installed speed bumps as well.
Read MoreAt 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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At the April 20, 2023 BPAC meeting, BPAC Chair Dianne Yee presented the BPAC 2023 Strategic Plan for adoption, which the Commission revised from the 2022 Strategic Plan at the March 30, 2023 Special Meeting. The Commission also continued discussion on the status of Committee meetings—whether the Infrastructure and Legislative Committees will begin to meet in-person.
2023 BPAC Goals
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