Thank you for your request to improve the safety and efficiency of Alameda’s transportation system. It has been received as #19-03-0072. Public Works maintains 85 signalized intersections in Alameda. Depending on the nature of your request, our transportation engineer and/or our signal shop will respond within the next two weeks . If your request is an urgent matter, please call 747-7930 and describe the urgency.

Thank you for your request to help make Alameda’s transportation infrastructure as safe and efficient as possible. Your suggestion will be included in the annual review of locations where traffic calming measures may be implemented. Public Works, Alameda Police, and the City’s Transportation Planning Unit prioritize improvements based a location’s history of collisions, police citations, its relationship with existing transportation plans and improvements, cost of the improvement given budget constraints, and suggestions from members of the public, such as yours. Please find more information about the locations and improvements occurring in 2020 here:
https://www.alamedaca.gov/Departments/Public-Works/20192020-Traffic-Safety-Incidents-and-Response
and more about traffic safety and calming generally here: https://www.alamedaca.gov/Departments/Public-Works/Traffic-Safety-and-Calming

Going forward, please submit any traffic calming requests to the Traffic Calming Suggestion category.

Please note that Buena Vista Avenue between Stanton Street and Entrance Road was reviewed recently. We sent a notice with our findings and recommendations to every property within 300 ft of this area. If you would like a pdf of the notice, please email me at ata@alamedaca.gov.