Special Meeting - December 2023 Bicyclist & Pedestrian Advisory Commission (BPAC) Special Meeting

This meeting of the Bicyclist and Pedestrian Advisory Commission (BPAC) was held on December 14, 2023 at 6:00pm

This is a special meeting of the Bicyclist and Pedestrian Advisory Commission (BPAC)

People participating in the meeting must attend in person. Participation, parking, and security information is available at the "How to Participate in this Public Meeting" button below.

People may be able to observe this meeting remotely. City of Oakland staff to the Commission are striving to provide the following options for people to observe BPAC meetings remotely.

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Remote participation including public comment via teleconferencing is not available at this time. Hybrid meetings may commence once the City of Oakland has established meeting procedures and allocated resources for simultaneously supporting in-person and remote participation. All Commission meetings will include procedures to comply with the open meeting requirements of the City’s Sunshine Ordinance and the State’s Brown Act.

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Minutes

Recordings

Meeting recording of December 2023 Bicyclist & Pedestrian Advisory Commission (BPAC) Special Meeting on December 14, 2023

Agenda

Topics

  1. Recent Bicyclist and Pedestrian Severe and Fatal Traffic Crashes

    (6:25 PM, 10 minutes) Commissioner Schader (patricias.oakland@gmail.com) will lead the commission in a discussion of recent fatal and other high-profile traffic crashes in Oakland involving bicyclists and pedestrians.

    • On Friday, December 1, 2023 at approximately 12:33 AM, a 34-year-old male pedestrian was killed by a northbound driver in a hit-and-run collision while walking eastbound in the southern crosswalk at Martin Luther King Jr. Way and West Grand Avenue.
  2. Violence Prevention Partnerships

    (6:35 PM, 40 minutes) Joe Wang, OakDOT Safe Streets Division Manager (JWang@oaklandca.gov), Brian Sukkar, OakDOT Transportation Engineer (BSukkar@oaklandca.gov), and Joe DeVries, Deputy City Administrator (JDeVries@oaklandca.gov) will provide an overview of non-traditional engineering approaches OakDOT has begun piloting in support of City violence prevention efforts led by the Oakland Police Department and the Department of Violence Prevention.

  3. BPAC Chair’s Report to the Public Works and Transportation Committee

    (7:15 PM, 25 minutes) BPAC Chair Dianne Yee (yee.bpac@gmail.com) will present notes on the draft 2023 BPAC Chair's Report to Oakland City Council’s Public Works Committee for the BPAC's review. The report will be presented to the BPAC at the January 2024 meeting for final review and approval.

  4. BPAC Open Forum Liaison Report

    (7:40 PM, 5 minutes) Jimmy Jessup (jwjessup@gmail.com) will report back on the status of items presented by the public to the BPAC in 2023. The BPAC Open Forum Liaison requests that the BPAC review and accept the report and consider further action, if necessary.


Accessibility and interpretation requests

Contact us to request disability-related accommodations, American Sign Language (ASL), Mandarin, Spanish or another language interpreter at least five (5) business days before the event.

All meetings held in-person are wheelchair accessible. Please refrain from wearing scented products as a courtesy to attendees with chemical sensitivities.

To make a request contact bikeped@oaklandca.gov


Date and Time

Thursday, December 14, 2023
6:00pm to 8:00pm


Contact

Bicycle and Pedestrian Program


Posted: November 23, 2023 12:00am

Last Updated: February 20, 2024 5:45pm

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