The Oakland BPAC is holding a meet & greet event for interested applicants to meet current Commissioners and answer questions. It will be held at the Oakland Public Library: César E. Chávez Branch (3301 E 12th St #271, Oakland, near Fruitvale BART) at 6:30-7:30pm on Wednesday, August 23.
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.
At 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.
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.
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.
The BPAC Infrastructure Committee meeting will be held on Thursday, July 6, 2023, 3:30-5:30pm in-person at the Lake Merritt Conference Room at 250 Frank Ogawa Plaza building.
Agenda topics include:
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.
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