1 City of Pleasant Hill
Traffic Safety Commission 2025 Annual Report
1. Introduction and Objectives
This report covers the activities of the Pleasant Hill Traffic Safety Commission for 2025.
The objectives of the report are to document the key activities of the Commission during the calendar year. This will not only monitor the progress being made by the Commission to achieve its goal of a significant reduction in road based serious and fatal accidents, but also describe the steps being taken to get there.
The overall objectives of the Commission are outlined in the City of Pleasant Hill Municipal Code, chapter 3.35. This includes travel by all means possible, be it pedestrian walking, bicycles and scooters, E bikes and E scooters, motorcycles and motor scooters, public and private vehicles, transit, light and heavy trucks.
Numerous locations in a thriving city such as Pleasant Hill will always be of particular focus for Traffic Safety as they present specific challenges.
These include:
x Schools/Colleges/Universities where, at specific times of day, travel activity is extremely intense.
x Areas of high economic/retail activity such as downtown and Contra Costa Blvd. x Routes that are being used for purposes for which they were not intended. x Areas of potential movement conflict. Such as ordinary intersections, street pedestrian crossings and trail crossings of the highway. x Areas of significant speed differentials used by travelers in the same place, such as bicycles on the road and bikes and E-bikes on trails.
x Areas where parking reduces visibility.
x Major transit hubs such as the DVC Transit Center.
The report includes items of news and events in traffic safety, updated infoemation on collisions and on projects in the city.
2. News Items and Events
x Assembly Bill 413 came into force on January the 1st, 2025. New laws on parking near crosswalks, at intersections and other unsuitable areas. x The Traffic Safety Commission (TSC) authored an article in the Outlook describing their role as a commission and how they operate.
x National Night Out- TSC, with PD support had a booth at the “National Night Out” on August the 5th. Discussions on general safety issues were held with those attending.
2 x The “Bike Family Fest”, TSC and PD had booths at this event. A survey of all bike users was carried out with the attending public by the TSC. x Two awards were given to the city for improvement projects. The APW/A made an award of excellence to the City for the Taylor Blvd/Civic Drive improvement project.
The City also received an award from the Bay Area Chapter of the Institution of Traffic Engineers for the Contra Costa Blvd “Complete Streets” project. x Prior to the start of the school year, the city carried out general maintenance to all school traffic facilities, including flashing beacons, school crosswalks and the resurfacing of AC pathways.
x Measure K was reported on. TSC Citizen member Paul Maxwell sits on this Commission as well as on the TSC.
x Review design of crosswalk rectangular flashing beacons project during 2025.
These included: Pleasant Hill Rd at Teigland Rd, Pleasant Hill Rd at Creek Place, adjacent to the Salvation Army store/Goodwill in downtown, and Westover Dr. at the Contra Costa Canal Trail crossing.
x Consultant Kimley Horn are to carry out the Safe Streets for All (SS4A) study for the City. This is vital for making grant funding available for any project associated with safety. The TSC has a representative on the SS4A Stakeholder working group. x At the Light-Up-the-Night event, there was an SS4A booth for Kimley Horn set up to carry out the first part of their public outreach. 500 people attended their booth and over 4000 attended the whole event.
3. 2025 Accident Records & Commentary
To measure progress towards a goal of reducing serious injury and fatal road accidents, TSC reviews the latest statistics from the PD on traffic collisions. This excludes the I 680 Freeway which is outside the City’s jurisdiction.
This data is for local streets and roads. Collisions on private property are not reported unless injury or hit and run collisions occur. These tend to be less than 10% of total collisions.
3 *Fatal + Injury collision/Total collisions.
The total number of collisions are remaining constant, despite traffic growth. The severity of the collisions though, seems to be increasing slightly.
Each collision in the city is allocated a primary collision factor (PCF) by the Police Department. The most frequent PCFs are:
194
258
272 271
307 301
49 57
73 70
85 91
3 000 11
0 50
100
150
200
250
300
350
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
2020 to 2025 Collisions in the City of Pleasant Hill
Total Collisions Injury Collisions Fatal Collisions
0.27 0.22
0.27 0.26
0.28 0.31
0 0.05
0.1 0.15
0.2 0.25
0.3 0.35
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Severity Ratio*
Severity Ratio*
4 x Driving at unsafe speeds
x Driving too closely
x Driver inattention/distraction
Locations where collisions occur most frequently are on Contra Costa Blvd; Monument Blvd and Taylor Blvd. Many of these locations have some of the highest traffic volumes in the city.
4. Issues raised by the Public and Actions
x Contra Costa Blvd. Improvement project, Viking Drive to Harriet Drive. x Some street lighting malfunctions in the Downtown area. These were corrected. x Pleasant Hill Rd at Teigland Rd, crosswalk usage problems. This is on the list for introduction of flashing beacons.
x E-bikes and their use was raised on a number of occasions as a general concern, particularly juveniles riding recklessly. The PD are carrying out a continuous program of public education through Outlook articles and visiting schools. x Heritage Hills Dr/Grayson Rd, a request for four-way-stop signs. x Pleasant Hill Rd/Diablo View, requests for four-way-stop signs The City concluded that the site does not meet the state guidelines on justification. x Gregory Lane, concerns expressed for the safety of pedestrians crossing at the entry to the Seniors Center. City has taken mitigation measures and adjusted the traffic signal timings to address the problem.
x Geary Rd, requests for additional safety measures at 3 existing crosswalks. Via Dominguez, Vessing Crescent and Bonnie Lane.
x Paso Nogal RD/Strayhorn Rd, request for flashing beacons to pedestrian crosswalks.
x Manor Ave/Oak Park Blvd, a request was made to introduce “No Parking” on the west side of Manor Road near the intersection. The City investigated and recommends restricting parking on this part of Manor Rd on the west side.
5. Projects Completed
x Contra Costa Blvd. at Taylor Blvd, Viking Drive to Harriet Drive. Identified as having the highest accident record in the City, mainly due to unsafe speeds. Designed to reduce the speeds of through traffic. Uses highly sophisticated traffic signal operations. The signals are demand responsive for all modes, including vehicles, bikes, and pedestrians.
x Taylor Blvd / Civic Drive Intersection. The traffic signals are operating using the latest technology and are highly efficient.
x The I680 Bridge on Oak Park Blvd, settlement on both sides of the bridge abutments had occurred. This has now been fully rectified. x Taylor Blvd. sidewalk improvement, Civic Drive / Lucille Lane, includes full ADA compliance.
x 2025 Street Resurfacing Program, Zones 15 and 18 were completed. 5 x 2025 Pothole Repair Project, the City has spent $1.3 million for 2025, which included the resurface of seven AC pathways.
6. Ongoing Projects
x A Complete Streets project on Gregory Lane is underway. x 2026 Street Resurfacing project. This will include ADA projects from the BPMP, crosswalk upgrades to Ruth Drive and Harriet Drive, four- way stop signs on Camelback Road and Scottsdale Rd-which will include new ADA ramps x Three-way stop signs at Shadow Park and Camelback Rd- together with traffic calming measures.
x Crosswalk flashing beacons program (continuance) at, Pleasant Hill Rd and Tiegland Rd, Salvation Army Store and Goodwill in Downtown, Pleasant Hill Rd. and Creek Place, Contra Costa Canal Trail at Westover Dr.
x Taylor Blvd/Civic Drive, replacing old AC pathway. Civic Drive to the Lucille Lane awaiting CIP funding to go to construction.
x PD will continue their education program on the responsible ownership and usage of E-Bikes. Together with their involvement in the Danville Regional Initiative on EBikes and E-Scooters. x Safe Streets for All Action Plan. A major study into road traffic safety in the City being carried out by Kimley Horn Consultants. Intense public outreach is included in the program. The output from the study will be the blueprint for the City's safety action plan for the sealable future. Main Consultants’ study to be completed by July 2026.
7. Long-Term Actions and Policies
x Traffic signal installations
x Oak Park Blvd, Complete Streets study as a CIP project. x Citywide traffic data collection.
x The Bike Family Fest and National Night Out likely to become a permanent feature on the TSC calendar.
x E-Bikes traffic management and regulation.
x TDA grant projects for 2026/2027.
x Implementation of the outcome of SS4A study and carrying forward with the Action plan.
8. Summary
x A higher level of activity for the TSC in 2025, including interface with the public through events such as National Night Out, and Bike Family Fest events. x Accident trends in 2025 in the city show no increase in the number of collisions but a slight increase in severity.
x Continuation of E-Bike initiatives and education program. x Completion of several major projects in the city. Two of these won awards from Transportation Engineering Institutions.
x Commencement of the Safe Streets for All (SS4A) study. x Annual maintenance of School Crosswalks.