COUNCIL INFRASTRUCTURE &
AIRPORT COMMITTEE
MEETING
AUGUST 28, 2024
DOCUMENTS RECEIVED AFTER
PUBLISHED AGENDA
Item # 3
ACT 24-058
Proposed Plan for the D Street
(East of 2nd Street) Traffic
Calming Project
From: Kira miller < >
Date: August 24, 2024 at 1:07:40 PM PDT
To: K
athy Garcia <[email protected]>, Tyler ��� Colgett >
Su
bject: D street calming project comment
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Hi kathy, this is Kira and Tyler, we are residents that live off of Clay Street between fourth and fifth Street coming off of D St. We would both like to attend the calming project meeting on the 28th. However, neither one of us is currently available to go in person, although we do have a lot of opinions and concerns and will be attending virtually as this is very important to us. We live off of clay, which gets massive amounts of traffic, coming off of Hayward high traffic and people who just haul butt down our street because they think it’s a quicker route off of D St. I want to submit a comment and I know that there is a person to reach out to about this.
We would like it known, that calming between fourth and sixth Street is although helpful, not always helpful with the people who take Clay Street to go up and down the hill at exuberant speeds. We also don’t have a sidewalk going up or down clay and we have a lot of students who walk up and down clay every single day because it’s a safer route than D St. we also have students who take the bus that are right around us and the stop is right at the corner of fifth Street and the students use this route regularly to go up and down the road to get to the school or to get home. We also have a six-year-old boy who plays and we want to make sure that he is safe, and people do not seem to care that there are people who actually live on these roads when they are driving up and down them.
With regard to the Lane, configurations, I am concerned about the fact that they want to narrow the driving lanes, as we already have completely full sidewalk parking with all of the people that live up and down D St. Narrowing, this would just make for more car accidents with those cars that are parked up and down D St.
Kira
I look forward to receiving your answers to the questions posed.
Thank you for your kind assistance,
Eleanor G Lee
Eucalyptus Park HOA
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From: Mark Batenburg >
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2024 3:31 PM
To:
Colin Patterson <[email protected]>
Subject: D Street project
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I live on D Street at 6th, and am happy to hear of your efforts at traf�ic calming. The street has become like a racetrack the last few years. With nothing to slow down drivers between 7th and 2nd, it has gotten downright scary, especially because there’s a school crossing in between. Come over on Sundays when it becomes a favorite motorctycle raceway.
What I want to point out is something your plan probably can’t address: there is zero traf�ic enforcement on our street anymore. Years ago, there were of�icers with radar who would stop peop-le and give them tickets. That hasn’t been true for years. And those “This is how fast you’re going” signs are meaningless without enforcement. There’s already one between 7th and 6th and it does nothing to slow down traf�ic because no one ever gets a ticket.
Maybe you could work with HPD on this?
Thank you for your work!
Mark Batenburg
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