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    3220 Champion St Oakland, California, 94602 - School
    The pavement near the curb in front of St. Jarlaths, across from 3220 Champion, is completely broken apart
  • 2915 Burdeck Dr Oakland, California, 94602 - Woodminster
    Please repave the bike and pedestrian path that goes between Joaquin Miller road and Burdeck. It has quite a lot of potholes, ruts, root bumps, in other deterioration that makes it hazardous to ride a bike on, or even walk on. I am putting 2915 Burdeck because the system requires a house address, but the subject we're talking about here is the bicycle path that is below that, heading towards Joaquin Miller.
  • 3207 Fruitvale Ave Oakland, California, 94602 - Sausal Creek
    That seems like a 5 gallon bucket of dried paint in front of 3207 Fruitvale avenue, at the curb, has been there for at least a week
  • 2950 Hedge Ct Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Woodminster
    On the walking/biking path that connects Burdeck to Joaquin Miller there are three small-ish trees that have fallen down across the path at about chest level, resting on the downslope side on the chain-link fence. Range seems about 6-12inches in diameter. Rather difficult to pass on foot or bike.
  • 3330 Monterey Blvd Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Redwood Heights
    Large pile of garbage bags and smaller furniture items partially blocking the lane on Monterey, just above 3330
  • Boston Ave & Macarthur Blvd Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Dimond

    I am requesting an upgrade to safety at this crosswalk: a HAWK, in-street blinking lights, blinking ped sign, something along those lines.

    This morning I witnessed a elderly woman trying to cross here, going west. She made it across the northbound traffic on MacArthur (stopped for the light at Lincoln), but then no one would stop going southbound. Perhaps it's visibility, I don't know. I watched about five cars go right in front of her, while she's standing there in the middle of the street.

    I was on a bike turning right from Boston to MacArthur, basically in the location of the included Google Maps photo. The scene brought to mind Wilma Chan, like here's an elderly woman basically having to risk her life to trying to cross the street here. I stopped and started staring down drivers, with my hand stuck out "Stop" style. One still blew past, I don't think they even noticed me; the next one after that stopped.

    As you are considering locations were you might allocate available dollars for a pedestrian improvements, please consider this particular crosswalk. It gets a lot of foot-bike traffic because Boston has a sidewalk-bridge across MacArthur. In addition it is particularly unsafe because drivers coming from the north have poor visibility, coming over a rise at Lincoln.

  • 2914 Carmel St Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Lincoln Highlands

    For the last three weeks or month this travel lane on Carmel has been blocked by this folding traffic barricade. It seems to be over a sewer manhole that maybe needs some paving around it or something.

    Especially in the morning when there's a lot of school drop off and commuter traffic it creates a bottleneck and hazardous condition as people try to navigate around it. I'm usually coming through here around 9am on an ebike with a kid, and oncoming traffic is often trying to speed around this thing to get through when they have a chance. So it ends up creating a situation where cars are going over the speed limit, in the wrong lane, and trying to swerve back into the correct lane.

    This sort of hazard is an understandable part of construction for maybe a few days or a week but this has been going on for I think almost a month which is too long. There hasn't been any discernible change, or any ongoing work at this particular site in weeks.

  • 3401 Fruitvale Ave Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Oakland

    The way this is designed (and to say it is "designed" is generous, this is the opposite of design) the city has invited cars to park in the same place as the bike lane. I bike this everyday with my toddler on a cargo bike and it's insane. When you're not prepared for it as a bicyclist you feel like "there's the bike lane, I'm going to start biking in it" and oh no there's cars legally parked right there.

    There's also another spot that is behind the one you can see occupied in the Google Street View I have attached. You can invite bicycles to that piece of pavement or you can invite cars to park there, but you cannot do both, it is dangerous.

  • 2904 Joaquin Miller Rd Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Piedmont Pines
    On The pedestrian bike path that is at the intersection of mountain and Joaquin Miller across the street from woodminster Market there is a tree down blocking the path at head level
  • 3161 Robinson Dr Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Woodminster
    This tree trunk is suspended above the roadway by a very thin branch
    just while I'm standing here I saw it shift and fall another foot down. clearly at some point soon it is going to fall onto the road. lots of bicyclists going through here who would be vulnerable to being hit by it. This is on Butters on the stretch where there are no houses.
  • 4081 Maple Ave Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Lincoln Highlands

    Can we get a crosswalk painted across Maple at Morgan? I've photoshopped it in in the attached pic where I mean.

    This is part of a Slow Street, where the Slow Street corridor uses Maple to jog from Wisconsin to Morgan. There's also curb cuts on either side of the street, inviting pedestrians to cross.

    Maple here is a low-volume but high-speed corridor. A pedestrian (or kid) can get lulled into thinking "oh there's no cars here" but then someone comes zooming down Maple at 30+mph. From where Maple starts at Frye until the stop sign at Carmel is a 700yd/.4 mile downhill stretch with no signs/traffic controls/calming. Accordingly, many drivers accumulate a lot of speed by the time they reach this intersection.

    I then have to cross this intersection with my three-year old on the way to preschool every day, on what is technically designated as a Slow Street, having to watch for occasional 30+mph traffic. Having some paint on the pavement would help to draw drivers' attention to the fact that this is, in fact, an intended placed for peds to cross.

    In addition, a speed bump or stop sign anywhere along this part of Maple (Carlsen to Sylvan, basically) would also help. Or even a "pedestrian crossing" sign or blinky lights to go with the crosswalk.

  • 3000 Wisconsin St Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Lincoln Highlands

    Please make this slow street truly slow by using AB43 to reduce the speed limit to 15. If you go from Wisconsin & Maple to Wisconsin & 35th there must be at least ten yellow signs already saying "15mph speedbump" or "15mph curve". So it's not like it would really even be a major change in practice; it's just the other 50% of the street's length that is not a speed bump or stop sign or curve that you'd be modifying.

    With Slow Streets, most drivers do take "slow" to mean something like 15 mph anyway. But a select few plow over the speed bumps, or gun the engine between them, and go 25+mph. And at that point it kind of makes a mockery of "slow street" status. Please make "slow street" explicitly mean 15mph.

  • 1592 Vista St Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Oakland
    Tree down, blocking trail, near playground of Dimond park, across the connector trail to the El Centro trailhead / Dimond Canyon
  • 9714-9964 Skyline Blvd Oakland, CA, 94611, USA - Joaquin Miller Park
    Pile of trash on Pinehurst about half mile below Skyline
  • 3201-3499 Monterey Blvd Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Redwood Heights
    Children's clothes dumped just down the hill from 3118 Monterey
  • Frye St & Maple Ave Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Lincoln Highlands
    Junk and clothes just above 2984 London St., looks like about half a pick up bed full
  • 3000 Jordan Rd Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Lincoln Highlands
    pile of trash has been there several days at least
  • 4123 35th Ave Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Redwood Heights
    There is a 3 inch high jagged metal stump from a street sign that is embedded in the sidewalk. It has no markings on it, and at some points on pedestrian or jogger is going to trip over this and injured themselves. Please grind it flat.
  • 3525 Coolidge Ave Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Upper Dimond
    The section of sidewalk was reconstructed maybe a year ago, and this stub of a sign pole is still here. The top of it is sharp cut metal, and it used to have a florescent band on it but that's not pretty much gone. This thing looks like a weapon stuck into the sidewalk that is waiting for an inattentive pedestrian or jogger to walk into it and severely injure themselves. Please cut it flush to the ground, put a sign pole with a sign on it, or otherwise permanently make it safe.
  • 4600-4698 Benevides Ave Oakland, CA, 94602, USA - Glenview
    You have about a 40-50 foot tall tree down across the Dimond Canyon trail here.
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