Caltrans Floods Oakland Neighborhood with Beg Buttons and Slip Lanes
The Park Street Triangle in Oakland’s Jingletown neighborhood has always been a bit of a mess: the redesign of the area may have actually made things worse.
Read MoreNo streets are truly safe streets in San Jose
Searching for the most dangerous roads in San Jose isn’t easy. You can focus on roads with the highest numbers of collisions and wind up overlooking the roads where the most serious injuries have occurred. Or you could just as easily do the opposite.
Any way you slice it, the danger on San Jose streets is alarming.
Highway 17, connecting San Jose and Santa Cruz, has among the highest number of collisions.
Read MoreAC Transit board calls Telegraph Avenue road diet a “disaster” and “absolute disgrace”
The project has decreased collisions for all modes by 40 percent, increased yield rates, and reduced speeding. However, not everyone is happy…
Read MoreHalf a century later, Redwood City intersection to get crosswalks
Half a century ago, Caltrans plowed through Redwood City to build Woodside Road… Woodside Road was built according to the era’s abysmal design highway standards, creating a barrier between the eastern and western neighborhoods of Redwood City.
Read MoreDespite its flaws, Telegraph Avenue redesign is working
The City of Oakland released a progress report for the Telegraph Avenue Complete Streets Project to assess the project’s performance over its first six months.
Read MoreTwo potential “peanutabout” locations in Oakland
Oakland has several skewed intersections that could be candidates for peanutabout designs. In particular, two intersections exhibit potential for such a design…
Read MoreHayward’s deadly Tennyson/I-880 Interchange deserves urgent action
Tennyson Road is one of Hayward’s major backbones for people walking and biking, but it is also one of the City’s most dangerous.
Read MoreIncredible: Oakland reinvents Lakeside Green Streets Project with protected bike lanes, bicycle-only slip lane
What a difference a year makes…
OakDot has completely reinvented its plans for Harrison Street to include state-of-the-art protected bikeway and protected intersection designs while adding pedestrian and transit enhancements.
Read MoreUber and Lyft are changing the way we use our streets – How should cities respond?
The density of TNC use along popular commercial corridors and destinations in cities like San Francisco has come into conflict with how streets are designed.
Read MoreThe complicated story behind widening Highway 1 in Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz County is in the midst of a debate over how to relieve gridlock along Highway 1. Traffic congestion has continued to worsen in recent years along the four lane freeway, to the point that an 18 mile one-way commute to or from Watsonville can take in excess of an hour each way.
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