Robert Prinz

I’ve made this request before and it was denied, but I implore the city to reconsider due to the severe safety concerns.

The traffic signal at the intersection of Adeline and 3rd is on a 24/7 red flashing mode, which means that it is supposed to work like an all-way stop though drivers roll through more often than not.

Third street is also an on-street portion of the Bay Trail with buffered bike lanes. As such bike riders and pedestrians going through this intersection have to contend with semi traffic coming to and from the port in all directions, as well as other car traffic.

This signal needs to be put on a regular green/yellow/red phase as soon as possible, and the walk signals need to be activated. As-is the intersection is extremely dangerous as well as inaccessible to people with disabilities. I know this will slow down port traffic, but the eventual alternative is someone being severely injured or worse.

Please consider this and take action to improve safety. Thank you.

PG&E recently repaved and re-striped 4th Street as part of a utility project, but the crosswalks at 4th and Clay were not installed with high viz continental striping per Oakland’s current standard. The red curb on the near side of the crosswalks does not appear to be long enough for adequate sight lines either.

Please follow up with PG&E to ensure that Oakland’s current design standards are being applied here and with all of the other streets and intersections they are currently working on throughout the Jack London Square area.

Please shield the traffic signals for the vehicle travel lanes on southbound Lakeside at Madison/19th, so they can’t be seen by southbound bicycle riders on the protected bikeway. Currently a bike rider on southbound Lakeside waiting to turn right onto Madison can see both the vehicle traffic signal and the bike signal. But these signals are on different phases so a bike rider might be confused and think they have a green light even while the bike signal is still red. Shielding the right side of the southbound vehicle traffic signal will help to prevent this confusion.

The SW corner of Grand Ave and Valdez, in front of the Caltrans D4 office, does not have a curb ramp for the crosswalk crossing Grand Ave. Also, the curbside car parking spot immediately west of this crosswalk does not provide an adequate sight line and should be moved or removed.

The traffic signal for E 18th at Lakeshore allows two lanes of car traffic to turn left from E 18th onto Lakeshore at the same time as the pedestrian phase crossing Lakeshore. This is extremely dangerous as the first lane of cars can block the view of pedestrians in the crosswalk from the second lane. Please either create a separate pedestrian crossing phase, or reduce the number of left turn lanes to one, or (preferably) both.

The traffic signal at Maritime/Burma in the Port of Oakland is on constant red-flashing mode in each direction, 24/7. This intersection is where the bike/walk pathway crosses Maritime to continue along Burma, and there are currently walk signals and buttons but they are all turned off. Due to the high level of semi traffic here and frequency with which drivers run through the red flashing signal, it can be very dangerous for path users to cross here, especially with kids or people with disabilities. Please change this to a regular green/yellow/red phase signal at all hours, and turn on the pedestrian signals and buttons so people walking or biking who need to cross in the green crosswalk to continue along the path can rely on them.

Pothole on the crosswalk line, WB 55th St at Market St.

Rough pavement at the NE corner of 55th Street and Market, in the crosswalk and in line with where bike riders will be turning from the WB 55th St bike lane onto the NB Market St bike lane.