Oaklandside: Oakland will test letting residents add signs and traffic barriers to dangerous roads
For several years, community groups have been pushing for a faster process for residents to get the permits they’d need to make temporary changes to dangerous streets and intersections around Oakland—like crosswalks, cones, bollards, and signs—to make them safer.
Two months ago, the city’s transportation department determined that managing a large community-led program to allow temporary street safety upgrades via “encroachment permits” would take too much time and money.
