Community Quick-Build
Traffic Calming Pilots
Transport Oakland
March 2nd, 2024
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Leverage community groups to create quick, ambitious
projects to address acute street safety concerns
• Broadway street-calming pop-up
demonstration at Oakland Tech, May
17 - 18, 2023
• OT Student hit by vehicle on Broadway
March 23, 2023
• Collaborative WOBO & Oakland Tech
response
• Two full-day traffic calming pilot
demonstration
• Extra speedway lane removed to
design for calm passage through
school zone
Background:
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Goals:
• Engage neighborhood around creative solutions
for creating a safe public right-of-way
• Take community action to respond to a serious
traffic collision
• Listen to the wants and needs of students and
community members, especially those using
alternative forms of transportation
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Site Plan
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Materials:
● Traffic cones
● Spray chalk
● Lane-closure signage
● Cardboard striping templates
● Safety vests
WOBO Broadway Project:
● Drafted site plan and set pilot date
● Special Event Permit application
● Neighborhood outreach/ publicity
● Volunteer Recruitment
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Transport Oakland’s ask:
Allow community groups to create quick, ambitious
projects to address acute street safety concerns
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Decorative Bulb-outs
Shafter Ave, Oakland Washington D.C.
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Decorative Bulb-outs
Los Angeles, CA
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Traffic Circles
Richmond, CA
Santa Monica, CA
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Traffic Circles
Palo Alto, CA
Livingston, MT
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Lane Diversions / Reallocations
El Cerrito, CA
Berkeley, CA
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Pinch points
Portland, OR
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Chicanes
Portland, OR
13th Street, Oakland
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● Progressive design toolkit
- Prioritizes pedestrian safety and allows pilots that slow down cars, a proven safety feature
● Minimal insurance requirements - especially for projects designed to slow vehicles
● Include sturdy materials, designed to be flexible as a project layout morphs
● Short (5-10 day) turn-around times
Key aspects for Oakland’s pilot program:
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Toolkit of pre-approved materials:
● Flex posts
● Wheel stops
● Planters
● Bollards
● K-rail
● Decorated barricades
● Zebra dividers
● In-street signage
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Standard configurations for:
● intersection bulb-outs
/ curb extensions
● modal filters
● lane reallocation
● traffic circles
● chicanes
● slip-lane removal
● double-right-turn
removal
● diagonal diverters
● widened pedestrian
zones
● Parking removal for
line-of-sight
restoration
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Example toolkit, excerpt from Atlanta
Atlanta’s similar program lists a
number of different traffic
calming options, including:
● Recommended materials
● Standard dimensions and
measurements
● Example plan documents
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Example Pilot Timeline
Identify street with
critical traffic safety
need
● Day: 0
Community to follow
toolkit for drafting a site
plan
1 5 12 15 … 105 Submit site plan and
expected pilot dates to
OakDOT
OakDOT to review pilot
plan and grant
encroachment permit or
respond with feedback
Community volunteer
recruitment and awareness
building
Community engagement,
maintenance, adjustments,
speed data collection
Materials installation
(signage, temporary
street closures if needed,
vertical element
placement
OakDOT review
for possible
extension
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Further Community Engagement:
• Educational posters/flyers
explaining the pilot
• Community artwork intentionally
doubled as traffic calming
features
• Link to online feedback form, to
be reviewed after initial trial
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After Initial Pilot Period:
• Continuation of traffic calming if
rate of speeding decreases
• Response to proposed adjustments
Data Collection:
• Telraam traffic counts for volume
and speed
• Traffic collision data within 20 feet
of affected intersections
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Pilot Legislation Timeline
Oakland Tech
Student hit on
Broadway
March
23, 2023
WOBO and Oakland
Tech Pilot lane
reallocation and
Crosswalk
Traffic Calming
Resolutions passed by
City Council
OakDOT presents
report to Public Works
and Transportation
Committee
Permitting
legislation
approved by
City Council
May 17 - 18
23, 2023
December
19, 2023
April 24,
2024
May 7,
2024
May 17,
2024
Initial traffic
calming pilot
installation
OakDOT expands program toolkit
options based on community input
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Thank You!
Questions/comments:
[email protected]
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