I totally agree. I have lived in my house for 41 years
on Tuolumne between Ten & Redwood and have never seen it this bad.

After leaving a voicemail on VPD's traffic division number, a police officer with a "slow down" sign was spotted on Tuolumne. Thank you VPD for a making a good start. Please follow up by ticketing reckless drivers daily. I promise, the officer will not need to even put the cruiser in park before they witness an illegal action. For every person ticketed, 20 more will be deterred.The return on the investment of manpower, time and energy is in everyone's best interest.

Thank you VPD for the good start, and please follow up as suggested by K. Wright.

Traffic Engineering will also do some striping work on the southbound side similar to the north side to help encourage drivers to slow down.

David Y., thanks again!

continues to be a race way,next to impossible for home owners to back out of their driveways! lack of traffic enforcement in Vallejo feeds reckless behavior and speeding as well as the red light runners

continues to be a speedway and a very dangerous street! speeding through a school zone should be halted by VPD

I was nearly hit head on last week by car doing around 50-60 mph (slight fish tail jerk at sharpest part of turn), through the curve on Tuolumne between Greenfield and Valle Vista.

I just walked my dog along Tuolumne and again witnessed a multitude of speeding cars in the school zone WAY faster than the posted speed limit of 25 mph.Will blood have to be spilled for action to be taken? Time to expose this to local news media! Maybe VPD will respond to that,as all I got when I called them was a weak excuse and no plan to take any action!

How time (and promises) flies...

05/04/2018: "Thank you VPD for a making a good start."

08/31/2018: "Maybe VPD will respond.. all I got when I called them was a weak excuse and no plan to take any action!"

I've often wondered about the feasibility of a class action suit based on a decades-long record of harm to pedestrians, drivers and home owners (i.e., personal property and injuries caused by unchecked reckless driving, not to mention the loss of home values). It's stunning that no one at City Hall has deduced that not just the neighborhood, but the entire city stands to gain a great deal if VPD would enforce our most basic traffic laws along Tuolumne and throughout our city. Their perpetual excuses of "not enough manpower" and "currently responding to other emergencies" are threadbare and reek of apathy. They may not be able to cure it all, the problem of reckless driving and noise pollution is deeply engrained in this town, but those with the ability to make a difference can at least behave as if they care.

I think a media blitz is in order here and the police chief fired with the mayor held as the responsible person!

What media? Local media isn't more! Bay Area media happily accepts the union propaganda that Vallejo is a h****hole and only better paid and more lethal hardware will save it.

This has also been a problem on Nebraska St. by Highland School parking lot, cars parked on sidewalk preventing people to walk down the street safely.There are parents walking their children to school and pushing strollers, and not able to walk the sidewalk safely. I myself have a disability with my feet and not feeling the ground very well my wife and I walk regularly in the area. I was forced to walk onto Nebraska St. because of a car parked on the side walk completely blocking the side walk, the side walks are in bad shape because of the tree roots lifting the sidewalk, making it very uneven and so I walked had to walk onto the street to get around the car that was parked there. As I walked onto Nebraska St. a car clipped me with his side view mirror, I was not able to get a license plate number of the vehicle when it got to Shasta St. it just blew through the stop sign traveling approximately 40 to 50 MPH and not even slowing down. This was doing school hours. I did call 911 and put in a complaint about the vehicle parked on the sidewalk, the car was eventually ticked a short time later but two days latter there were more cars parked on the side walk and nothing done! It looks like it will take a serious accident or a DEATH to get more done.
I have spoken to the City engineer many time in the past as how the make this a safer area ( by installing calming strips in front of the school cross walk on Nebraska St. but nothing got done, I also asked to possibly having a portable RADAR GUN PUT UP TO SHOW PEOPLE JUST HOW FAST THEY ARE TRAVELING!!! I have seen them at different areas around town where speed is a problem.

I would also like to mention that the Vallejo School District took it upon themselves to paint the Red Curb White, when I informed the City Engineer of this and the other mentioned items above within TWO DAYS THE CITY CAME OUT AND REPAINTED THE CURB RED. I wonder if the school was reprimanded or not? I would guess they weren't. In my opinion this is one of the reasons that we as a city are in a financial crisis and does not seem to be getting any better!!

A Concerned Citizen,

Mark Raudelunas

Why can't VPD make an apearance and write some speeding tickets? Everyday all day and night cars race along this street, not hard to find speeders reckless speeders . This police department the city claims to have is invisable .Our mayor has no interest in protecting the people who voted him into office????????????
!

Like I said (09/01/2018)...

"How time (and promises) flies...
05/04/2018: "Thank you VPD for a making a good start."
08/31/2018: "Maybe VPD will respond.. all I got when I called them was a weak excuse and no plan to take any action!"

...and...

01/27/2019; "Why can't VPD make an appearance and write some speeding tickets?"

Guess the problem is that what the VPD defines as serious crime does not fit with the crimes that most citizens want to see enforced. And the City Council? No, they just don't have any say over what the PD thinks and does!.

Very sad

I live on Tuolumne just south of Loma Vista and it really has gotten much worse over the last year. The new cross walk marker up by St. Basil's was mowed down within days. Someday it might be a kid or an elder. Please do some traffic calming measures.

A city behaving badly, and some of the worst offenders are the soccer mommies going to drop off or pick up the kiddies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, the worst offenders are our PD and they’re ignoring the issue with impunity. Oh, I’m sorry I meant inability due to lack of staff and funding.

No, which is the longer list: Open crimes that the Vallejo Police ignore, or Things that the Vallejo City Council has failed to achieve?

The most dangerous city in the North Bay!!!!!!!!

Almost a year ago, K.Wright wrote: "Why does the VPD and City Council continue to turn a blind eye to the reckless driving on Tuolumne ".

Did anyone see a response here -- or anywhere -- from anyone on the City Council. Of course there was no response from VPD, who consider themselves to have no responsibilities -- to either do or speak anything -- to the people of this city.

I know that my speedo in our 2012 Prius reads one or two MPH faster than I'm actually going, so I allow myself to go 30 on that stretch of road; five miles over the posted limit. And I can't count the number of times that rude, selfish, dangerous, and illegal drivers have tailgated me the entire way, or worse! I had this guy behind me start swerving from the center line to the sidewalk for blocks until he finally passed me when I stopped for a stop sign. People get so close to my rear bumper that I fear being rear-ended if I just take my foot off the accelerator for a second.
Also, there are not sidewalks on both sides of street on every block, so you've got people walking in the street, people on bicycles, many of which are on the wrong side of the street for their direction of travel, and riding at night with no front or rear lights and sometimes not even reflectors. It all adds up to a disaster in the making. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks something should be done...

Or city government is worthless

Vallejo pd and the whole city officials are useless

30 millions goes into waste and nothing gets done
can we just become part of the county
i believe the sheriff is doing an excellent job out in county side of Vallejo

Still nothing being done!

And to commemorate the upcoming first anniversary of this unanswered question:

"Why does the VPD and City Council continue to turn a blind eye to the reckless driving on Tuolumne between Tennessee and Redwood? Are they waiting for a grandparent or parent to die, or will it take the death of a child to wake them from their stupor? People are sick of the reckless speeders and aggressive drivers on this road who are putting innocent lives at risk. Wake up Vallejo leaders, before you are held legally liable for harm of others because you were negligent and derelict in your duties."

Yes, blood will have to be spilled before any action will be taken in this matter!

Nobody stops at the 4 way stop signs on Mariposa and Nebraska. The PD needs to be there and watch how all cars just drive right thru the signs. Very dangerous as well. When I said NOBODY, I meant just that. It's been going for many many months. Please put a stop to this.

I have been complaining of this for over 5 years now. Police must not think it is a priority and or they don't have the man power. So, there is no traffic enforcement! I have been hit and run in front of my house about 2 years ago police would do nothing even with a picture of the license plate they would not even respond. I have been hit and run in Vallejo 3 times in the last 4 years. Also, at the same corner a couple of weeks ago there was a side show going on spinning doughnuts in the intersection when school was letting out children crossing the street, stopping traffic for several minutes. What is going on here.You can take pictures of this things happening and can't do any thing about it. Looks like it will take some one to get shot or killed for something to happen is this what it will take? I live on Nebraska just a few houses from the the intersection and I would say at a minimum of 7 out of 10 cars don't stop and some don't even slow down. If we don't do any thing it will get bigger and bigger. Does any body have an answer to help the problem ?

From a Concerned Citizen

Have been hearing cars use the Vista neighborhoods as a race track - it's like they think it's fun to go as fast as possible on these small, one lane, crowded roads. Last year we had a car literally crash into my neighbors home and flip over onto their lawn. Driver immediately took off running.

Despite all of the illegal paraphernalia and other peoples ID cards that spilled out of the totaled vehicle, VPD told us there was nothing they could do - not charges or tickets they would give to the driver - all they could help with was getting a tow truck here to pull the wreckage off the lawn. Nor did they test the driver for DUI...

Public Works will be restarting the Traffic Calming Program in the next month or two, we are currently working with a consultant to bring the program up to current standards (the program has been on hold for the past 8-9 years). They are working on the final drawings/cost estimates.

We have been logging in requests for traffic calming and will use this log to help restart the program. Tuolumne St has had requests from various residents, and has been logged in already.

I've had VPD tell me point blank they do not bother with traffic enforcement. I've had VPD dispatch tell me a) if there's no gun, we aren't responding and b) "we only have 4 officers on patrol and cannot respond"

Isn't the majority of the city budget going to VPD? Is that just going to lawsuit payouts? How are we so short staffed? Why are we buying prime real estate for VPD when apparently they need that money for lawsuit payouts and payroll?

In the last couple months, through this past week, myself and others have been passed from behind on Tuolumne, on the straight away between between Tennessee and Greenfield. I have seen them pass two to three cars at a time in the oncoming lane. Occasionally, they are passing on the left while heading into the curve at freeway speed between Greenfield and Valle Visa. Cars are often stopped or slowed there to make turns left or right onto Valle Vista or they are just coming up the hill blindly from Redwood St when these cars are flying through without any regard for the safety of even themselves. Any chance the city/VPD can put budget to install some traffic cameras? Atop the traffic light at Nebraska and Tuolumne? Or, there is a large traffic island at the "corner" of Greenfield and Tuolumne. It's the perfect spot for cameras to see traffic coming from either direction, including the curved part of the road. Seems like there are plenty of police chases and races through that corridor where perhaps camera footage could be helpful even if only after-the-fact.

I have forwarded the request for traffic cameras for Tuolumne St to our PD Traffic Section, PD has some cameras at various intersections in the city.

So, it took 3 1/2 years to forward this request, it probably will take just about longer for the camera to materialize. And actually, I expect nothing to happen with this request.

It ALL comes down to this being what the voters get, when they elect democrats over and over and
over as their city counsel representative; they hate business and literally drive them away to other (red) states that welcome them and the taxes they bring. Those misguided folks also cut the police forces (being THE people behind Defund The Police movement), resulting in what we now have. The are ALSO traditionally SOFT on crime, blaming the weapon or their poor, poor circumstances. Add to that all the parolees and vagrants who get sympathy and not the righteous rounding-up and incrassated they all deserve. Oh, but they WILL support the ban of gun shows. THAT will show those criminals. Raise the speeding fines to a thousand dollars MINIMUM and public shaming of the violators.

It's everywhere in Vallejo. I see a parked cars all along Vallejo streets that have been plowed into by these types of drivers. And after they hit, they just drive off (run). These drivers chuck garbage out of their windows throughout the city and on my street I live on. Usually fast food and empty booze containers. They drive and behave like they have nothing to loose, probably because they don't. Usually not insured and their cars obviously not maintained properly.

Wish we were able to call out the National Guard for a year or two...

David Y, How’s it going w traffic calming for Tuolumne? Pls post a timeline. All these problems continue into 2024. Thank you.