Agreed. We live nearby and walk on the sidewalk daily. It is not safe.

+1 @Alameda Transportation Planning - what is the next step to address these recurring public safety problems?

Thank you for reporting your concerns about street safety in Alameda. Your report will help inform the City of Alameda’s work to achieve our Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries. We will use street safety reports, including yours, in combination with crash data and equity indicators to prioritize and design street safety investments. This evaluation will generally happen on an annual basis, with some exceptions for clear and pressing trends. Issues that the City deems to be immediate safety concerns will be elevated for quick action.

For more information and a list of current and planned traffic safety projects, see www.AlamedaCA.gov/SaferStreets

Thank you for following up and providing this background. What is the formal process to escalate the urgency of this safety concern?

The City uses High Injury Corridor maps to prioritize on traffic safety improvements where they are needed most, supplemented by equity indicators and public feedback. High Injury Corridors are the stretches of road with the highest densities of injury crashes, weighted by severity, based on ten years of crash data. The maps are here: www.alamedaca.gov/VisionZero#section-4

The good news is that Willow is not a High Injury Corridor. But that means we are focusing our limited staffing and financial resources on streets where more people are being injured, with projects like the High Injury Corridor Daylighting Project, the Central Avenue Safety Project, and soon-to-be-launched projects on Grand and the Lincoln Avenue corridor.

This SeeClickFix category is the formal process to express your concern about Willow (and any other locations). The annual Vision Zero reports shared with the Transportation Commission and City Council will include an analysis of Street Safety Concern reports. Project managers working on road projects, from pavement resurfacing to major corridor redesigns, will review these reports when they begin their projects. When we see clusters of reports on speeding or failure to yield to pedestrians, we share them with the Police Department.

You can also speak at Transportation Commission or City Council meetings during the non-agenda speakers section toward the beginning of the meetings.

Thank you for this information. Appreciate the follow up.