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The crosswalk on 51st St. and Lawton Avenue is the only marked pedestrian crossing on 51st St. between Broadway and Telegraph Avenue (aside from the stoplight at 51st/Shafter). There is regular pedestrian traffic crossing 51st at this location, due in part to students and families walking to Emerson Elementary, but cars rarely stop for pedestrians. When cars do stop, drivers behind them are often not expecting them to stop, and either stop rapidly or swerve into the other lane and keep going - creating additional hazard for pedestrians. Full crosswalk striping and "pedestrian crossing" signage would greatly reduce the perils of crossing 51st St. in this high-traffic location.
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Update 1: Since initiating this service request, I wrote and spoke with Monica Harris in Dan Kalb's office. She wrote, "Our Transportation Services department is extremely understaffed and tied up with hundreds of projects. It is not uncommon for it to take months for action to begin and that’s only if the Transportation Services team deems it a needed request and it fits within the current two year budget. I will add this to a list of requests that we keep and present to Public Works officials when we have periodic meetings with them."
In a follow-up call, she also suggested that multiple requests will help raise the visibility and urgency of this request with the Department of Public Works.
To keep attention on this issue, please submit a separate service request through SeeClickFix. Please also take a moment to call DPW @ 510-238-6107 to inquire about the status of service request #637697.
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Ashley - I have received this reply from Joe previously on something that I'm trying to get fixed:
"Email is a better way for me as I can enlist help quicker with less need to explain. It also automatically documents our correspondence."
Jwang@oaklandnet.com
Joe Wang, P.E.
Supervising Transportation Engineer
Transportation Services Division
City of Oakland | Public Works Department | APWA Accredited Agency
250 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 4344, Oakland CA 94612
(510)238-6107
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