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Lack of Speed Limit Signs on Park Blvd:
Most drivers are not aware of the speed limit on Park Blvd from Oakland High School - E-18th Street
"is 25 MPH"
1) We will need to post more speed limit signs (currently only ONE is in place)
2) We need to educate the drivers about the speed limit.
3) We need to monitor it.
4) Then, we need to enforce it and prosecute on those who do not obey the traffic laws.
Traffic Engineering Dept and OPD - we need your help, please
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Eileen (Utente registrato)
I agree there needs to be more signage. Additionally, deploy the CHP we have contracted with there for traffic enforecment for a couple of weeks, just as they have in another neighborhood where people were routinely flying through the stop signs. After a number of people get ticketed they'll get the message. Email your PSO, captain and special resources commander for your police area.
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/OPD/s/CommunityPolicing/
Steve (Utente registrato)
Yes, we are tackling this issue from all different angles. We are trying to establish ground work first.
But, do appreciate the suggestions!
Steve
Eileen (Utente registrato)
Swimmy44 (Ospite)
Tobias (Utente registrato)
This street is still so very dangerous. We helped the victim of a hit and run a couple weeks ago. She was able to go home, with a banged a bloodied elbow. The City of Oakland is in serious neglect. Faded crosswalks, lack of signage, and enforcement, all near many schools, parks, a birth center, community garden, and a high density residential environment.
I suggest citizens stop waiting for the City to acknowledge the @#$% child section of Park Blvd, and paint the crosswalks themselves, make DIY signage, and hold awareness actions-traffic slowdown walks. email parkcommunitygarden@gmail.com
The Sentinel (Utente registrato)
I agree with the other contributors. Traffic and pedestrian safety should be a much higher priority. Our illustrious politicians downtown only give lip service to the problem.
THE SOLUTION: We need to pressure the City Council to fund 6-8 OPD traffic officers on motorcycles. Giving speeders and those who do not stop at occupied crosswalks nice fat tickets should break them of their dangerous habits.
Rebecca Kaplan (Ospite)
Emily Montan (Ospite)
Tobias (Utente registrato)
Anyone care to participate in a grassroots diy sign making effort? Plenty of spots to place them. High visibility signs do help. It will have the possible side effect of shaming the city at the same time. We can use Park Community Garden as a space to make the signs. This could really make a difference, as opposed to me angrily standing off wanna-be race drivers with my bike and attached cart in front of the garden and natural birth center.
I'll share this for inspiration... http://magazine.good.is/articles/the-fake-freeway-sign-that-became-a-real-public-service
Emily Montan (Ospite)
The Sentinel (Utente registrato)
Tobias (Utente registrato)
That being said, anyone interested in such place-making, civic activism, please email parkcommunitygarden@gmail.com or look for the Park Community Garden group on Facebook.
Both the curvy nature of Harrison and Park make them fun streets to go fast on, I've had to catch myself a few times when I do drive.
Steve (Utente registrato)
Thank you for revisiting this issue on the lack of 25 MPH signs & the speeding, and thank you for organizing a grassroots effort to address the problem.
FYI... we will be doing an event "Bike To Safety" - the community, families and youths will be biking with our Chief of Police and our Area Captain and his officers...
3 main purposes:
1) address bike safety rules for the cyclists, as well as for the motorists - since we both are sharing the roads.
2) building a stronger Community Policing by getting to know the OPD and the officers.
3) address the lack of 25 MPH signs on Park Blvd, from Oakland High to E-18th St. And, yes the speeding problem.
Date & time: Saturday, Oct 18th early morning to noon.
Please stay tuned for more details & announcement.
My approach: always try to work with the city & the officers first.
Sincerely,
Steve
Tobias (Utente registrato)
Emily Montan (Ospite)
Eileen (Utente registrato)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2690012/nextdoor-an-app-for-connecting-with-neighborhoods-puts-on-its-police-cap.html
...an excerpt, " public agencies cannot see the conversations on the site between individual users. Instead, officials can post or send out alerts to their respective service areas, which will then be seen by regular users. From there, regular users can start talking and engage with the agency. Regular users can customize their settings to change how they’re alerted when different agency posts go out. Users can also send private messages to agency officials."
Emily (Utente registrato)
eastbaybirdnerd (Utente registrato)
Tobias (Utente registrato)
TWO MEETINGS ON PARK THIS WEEK, WED & THURSDAY. SAME CONTENT AT BOTH MEETINGS.
Please be sure to show up for the upper Park meeting as well, since their will always be more voices on the upper side of the 580 than the lower side.
The Sentinel (Utente registrato)
The Sentinel (Utente registrato)
dg510 (Utente registrato)
The city of Oakland just don't care about us. It's that simple. They only care about money and votes.
All the speed limit, stop signs and traffic lights in the world won't fix these problems. A lot of people out here make their own rules, they don't follow anyone's laws but their own. The only way to make them comply is by enforcing the law and citing violators, but that just isn't happening in Oakland and probably won't for a long time.
They keep defunding the police department, protesting any action by the police to clean up Oakland and doing nothing to improve conditions here. Oakland just continues to deteriorate and fall further and further into insolvency, just like how John Russo predicted it would.
The only way to really fix Oakland is to completely clean out all the corrupt officials in city hall and replace them with people who actually care, refuse to back down in the face of growing opposition from malicious/ignorant residents and are actually qualified to do their jobs.
Timothy Hay (Utente registrato)
David Coleman (Utente registrato)
eastbaybirdnerd (Utente registrato)
lary (Utente registrato)
The Sentinel (Utente registrato)
Rachel B (Utente registrato)
I agree that too many vehicles speed along Park Blvd. There needs to be more street calming on that road as well as many others.
Area 3 Commander, Captain Hamilton, retired over a year ago. His replacement, Kirk Coleman, was recently transferred. I believe the current Area 3 Commander is out on medical leave. We could use some more stability in Area 3 Commanders.
The Sentinel (Utente registrato)