OakDOT Safe Streets Division:
Rapid Response
Purpose
OakDOT seeks to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries while promoting safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all. OakDOT’s efforts to make streets safe include rapid responses to fatal and severe crashes involving the most vulnerable users of Oakland’s roadways.
A Rapid Response is a coordinated effort in the days and weeks following a traffic tragedy that may include investigations, targeted maintenance, near-term improvements, and the identification and prioritization of longer-term capital needs.
Rapid Response Activation
Activation:
A Rapid Response may be activated for traffic crashes resulting in pedestrian or bicyclist fatalities, or severe injuries to pedestrians or bicyclists who are youth or seniors. A Rapid Response may be activated for additional crashes based on the individual circumstances of a crash.
Investigation: Engineering staff will conduct site visits and review already available data, plans, and policies to make recommendationsin one or more of the following four categories:
1. Maintenance Treatment
2. Quick-Build Improvement
3. Current Capital Project to coordinate with
4. New Capital Improvement
Recommendation Categories:
1. Maintenance Treatment
If the crash location has a maintenance issue that
may be related to traffic safety (e.g., pavement
defect, faded striping, missing sign), the maintenance
issue will be rectified by field staff.
2. Quick-Build Improvement:
If there are design treatments that could be
implemented quickly at low cost, engineering staff
will prepare the design and issue a work order for
field staff to construct.
• For treatments that involve non-standard
equipment or materials not off-the-shelf,
implementation may take months.
Recommendation Categories:
3. Current Capital Project
If a design treatment is recommended, and a capital
project is forthcoming at that location, staff may
recommend that the improvement be implemented as
part of the current capital project. Key considerations include the timeliness of the capital project and the
practicality of modifying the current project’s scope.
4. New Capital Improvement
In some instances, a design treatment may be beneficial but beyond the scope of a Rapid Response due to the
complexity or expense of that design (e.g., new traffic signal, concrete bulbouts).
• Staff will document the possible improvement
and forward the recommendation to Strategic
Planning & Administration for prioritization as
part of the City’s CIP .
* Picture source: SF Chronicle article August 22, 2019
Response: Quick-Build Improvement
Project Examples:
• 98th Ave & Cherry Street
• E 27th Street & 23rd Ave
• E 12th Street & 2nd Ave
Response: Current Capital Project
• Bancroft Ave and 85th Ave
• Existing capital project, scope addresses
rapid response
Response: Current Capital Project
• Bancroft Ave and 85th Ave
• Existing capital project, scope addresses
rapid response
Before Paving Project After Paving Project
Response: Current Capital Project
• 10th & Harrison
• Existing Capital Projects Identified – Adding scope including refuge & channelizing islands.
• Do Not Enter signs installed
Response: Current Capital Project
• Park Blvd & E 38th Street
• Existing capital project Identified for longer term
treatments
• Quick build temporary lane drop installed
• Identifying locations with similar characteristics
Planned Capital Project Treatments
Installed Quick Build Treatments
Response: New Capital Improvement
• Foothill Blvd & 22nd Ave
• Quick build done
• New long-term project planned and
funded through competitive process to
include traffic signal upgrades.
Before Quick Build:
After Quick Build:
Safe Streets Division
Megan Wier, Division Manager
[email protected]
Joe Wang, Traffic Engineering
Brian Sukkar, Traffic Engineering
Mandana Ashti, Traffic Engineering