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$800k Allocation: OakDOT Prioritization and Process
In April 2021, the Oakland City Council allocated an additional $800,000 total for minor, high priority trafc safety projects. Split equally among the eight Council ofces (seven geographic districts and one citywide at-large ofce), this would provide $100,000 per Council Ofce to identify specic expenditure priorities. This page offers background information on the costs of trafc safety treatments and how OakDOT organizes and approaches trafc safety work in an effort to align the Council process of identifying projects for funding with existing programs including prioritized OAK 311 service requests, speed bumps, Safe Routes to School improvements, and rapid responses to fatalities.

Process for expending these resources:

OakDOT will share lists of projects in the queue (311, Speed Bumps, Safe Routes to School, Rapid Response) with each district's Council ofce.

OakDOT will work with Council ofces to identify and implement their priority project from the above existing queue of prioritized requests.

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$800k Allocation for High Priority Trafc
Calming and Speed Bumps: OakDOT
Prioritization and Process
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Projects/costs that exceed the $100K threshold will be referred to the CIP process.

Estimated Costs:

Most costs below include materials costs and staff costs for design and implementation, estimated at 30% of materials costs.

Safety Treatment Cost
Corner Bulbout (per corner) $75,000
Curb Ramp $6,500
Hawk Signal $300,000
Lane Drops (close two approaches
to a crosswalk, Temporary,
Essential Places Treatment)
$30,000
Median Refuge $52,000
RRFB (per crosswalk)* $97,500
Speed Bumps (per bump) $7,800
Stop Sign (typically 2 approaches)$2,500 per approach
Trafc Circle** $78,000-130,000
Trafc Signal Up to $600,000
*One on each sidewalk with a third in the median, solar powered Search
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** Lower estimate is for surface mounted materials installed in-house by Trafc Maintenance
OakDOT Prioritization of Trafc Safety Improvements to Address Injury, Death and Equity:

The City of Oakland has a high demand for trafc safety improvements that increased under the COVID-19 pandemic. OakDOT prioritizes locations for trafc safety improvements based on crash history and equity factors - targeting limited resources to the communities most impacted by the most severe crashes. The recently launched Safe Oakland Streets interagency initiative focuses on this approach to achieve the following goals:
. Prevent severe and fatal crashes and related disparities impacting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, seniors, people with disabilities and low-income populations
. Eliminate severe and fatal injury inequities including racial disparities impacting BIPOC communities that exist today in Oakland . Inform effective and equitable safety strategies that prevent injury and injury inequities, and do not have adverse equity impacts on BIPOC communities, seniors, people with disabilities and low-income populations
OAK 311 Service Requests: One of the most public-facing processes to address trafc safety concerns of Oakland residents is the OAK 311 service request process. OakDOT’s Safe Streets Division has a trafc engineering team that evaluates every roadway safety request we receive and provide a response regarding whether OakDOT will be taking engineering action. We receive, on average, more than 800 service requests each year from our residents, merchants, schools, advocacy groups, contractors, neighboring jurisdictions, and partner transportation agencies. On average, about 200 requests per year are considered for engineering treatments. The OakDOT trafc safety service request team is uniquely positioned to implement efcient, effective solutions- typically using trafc signs, pavement markings, and common trafc calming devices like speed bumps —to support safer Search
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trafc speeds and lower trafc volumes. These improvements are focused on specic intersections or street segments.

In July 2021, OakDOT will begin using an updated OAK 311 service request prioritization criteria for trafc safety requests that prioritizes locations for improvements based on the most recent available 5 years of crash data, OakDOT Priority Equity Neighborhoods based on factors including race, income, ability and age, and proximate land uses accessed by vulnerable populations (e.g., schools, seniors centers, libraries, health care services).

School-generated Requests and Safe Routes to Schools: Trafc safety requests OakDOT receives from schools are handled separately from the prioritization process described above. We assign all school-initiated requests to staff and funding sources set aside for school-related improvements. Every request from a school is investigated for engineering improvement. In addition to responding to the requests, OakDOT also conducts walk audits of school sites managed and paid for by the Alameda County Safe Routes to Schools Program. The walk audits result in capital improvements developed in collaboration with school safety stakeholders such as parents, teachers, neighborhood residents, and Community Resource Ofcers. These projects are funded by the City’s two-year Capital Improvement Program cycle.

Speed Bump Program: The Speed Bump Program is primarily resident- driven, requiring support from two-thirds of the addresses on the block in request. This is different from the Trafc Safety Request Program mentioned above which uses a data-driven prioritization process. Residents may apply for a speed bump any time by lling out an application found here on our website: https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/apply-for-a-speed-bump. Every speed bump request is evaluated by OakDOT's Safe Streets Division with input from the Oakland Fire Department and AC Transit for their operational needs such as vehicle size and travel/response time.

Rapid Response: A Rapid Response is a coordinated OakDOT effort in the days and weeks following a trafc tragedy, focused on fatalities involving people walking or biking, that may include investigations, targeted Search
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maintenance, innovative near-term improvements, and the identication and prioritization of longer-term capital needs.

Status by Council District:

As of March 18, 2022, the following projects are identied and being advanced:

At Large Member, Vice Mayor Kaplan - Identied East 18th Street from 5th to 14th Avenues; OakDOT assessment underway
District 1, Councilmember Dan Kalb - Project Identication TBD District 2, Council President Nikki Bas – Identied Lakeshore Avenue at Prince Street and at Santa Ray Avenue; OakDOT assessment underway District 3, Councilmember Carroll Fife – Identied Frontage Road Safety Improvements; seeking contractor for construction
District 4, Council President Pro Tempore Sheng Thao - Project Identication TBD
District 5, Councilmember Noel Gallo – Identied Middle Park Boulevard; design being nalized for delivery in Summer 2022
District 6, Councilmember Loren Taylor – Identied Ney Avenue Quick-Build Trafc Calming; completed December 2021
District 7, Councilmember Treva Reid – Identied Crest Avenue Measures to Address Weekend Party Scenes/Associated Violence; design nalized, construction planning underway for delivery in Summer 2022 News & Updates
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