Thank you for reporting your concerns about street safety in Alameda. We are glad you're ok after your scary experience! Your report will help inform the City of Alameda’s work to achieve our Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries. We will use street safety reports, including yours, in combination with crash data and equity indicators to prioritize and design street safety investments. The City reviews reports when designing street safety projects, and will evaluate citywide reports annually. Issues that the City deems to be immediate safety concerns will be elevated for quick action.

The City uses High Injury Corridor maps to prioritize on traffic safety improvements where they are needed most, supplemented by equity indicators and public feedback. High Injury Corridors are the stretches of road with the highest densities of injury crashes, weighted by severity, based on ten years of crash data. The maps are here: www.alamedaca.gov/VisionZero#section-4

The good news is that Willow is not a High Injury Corridor. But that means we are focusing our limited staffing and financial resources on streets where more people are being injured, with projects like the High Injury Corridor Daylighting Project, the Central Avenue Safety Project, the Grand Street Resurfacing and Safety Improvement Project, and the soon-to-be-launched project on the Lincoln Avenue corridor.

For more information and a list of current and planned transportation projects, see www.AlamedaCA.gov/SaferStreets

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