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Chatham Rd is the onramp to 580 West in this area. Chatham is a failed road. It is full of potholes. Many potholes are filled, but the road is still in extremely bad shape. It is dangerous for bicycles. This section will damage car tires.
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Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Anerkannt City of Oakland (Verifizierter Beamter)
At your convenience, please review the following information regarding the City of Oakland Street/Sidewalk Maintenance Program:
Facts About Oakland's Infrastructure - Streets & Sidewalks http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/s/SST/index.htm
5-Year Paving Plan http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/o/EC/s/STS/OAK030328 Please check back for status updates or contact us directly at (510) 615-5566.
Tosh (Gast)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Tosh,
Thanks for the comment. I just reported on some problems on 13th Ave, in front of Edna Brewer, though there are other problemns on 13th Ave.
Jay (Gast)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Jay,
You're right. The city did fill some potholes. But this street is so bad that the entire street needs to be repaved.
The Sentinel (Registrierter Benutzer)
City of Oakland (Verifizierter Beamter)
This issue can also be followed by watching http://seeclickfix.com/issues/405223
Oaklander (Gast)
Oaklander (Registrierter Benutzer)
Geschlossen City of Oakland (Verifizierter Beamter)
Reopened Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Unfortunately, Chatham is still a failed street. I suspect that a few potholes have been fixed, but the street is still a mess, with potholes, unevenly filled potholes, and cracks running along the street. Hubcups litter the side of the street, probably lost when hitting one of the many potholes.
Chatham is a commonly used road for entering 580 West, and receives a lot of traffic. Many AC Transit buses also use this route.
Chatham needs to be repave3d, just as MacArthur was repaved on the opposite side of the 580. I will load a few photos taken today.
Anerkannt City of Oakland (Verifizierter Beamter)
At your convenience, please review the following information regarding the City of Oakland Street/Sidewalk Maintenance Program:
Facts About Oakland's Infrastructure - Streets & Sidewalks http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/s/SST/index.htm
5-Year Paving Plan http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/o/EC/s/STS/OAK030328 Please check back for status updates or contact us directly at (510) 615-5566.
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Oops. Those were lost hubcaps, of course.
Here's another lost hubcap.
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Currently, Chatham is not on the 5 year plan.
Oaklander (Registrierter Benutzer)
The large pothole that I took a photo of was filled, and I assume that is why this issue was closed, but it should not have been. There is another open pothole in the lane next to it that is not filled. There is another pothole just a short ways past that filled pothole that is open and growing. My picture from 11/09/13 was trying to illustrate the immediate danger that the physical deterioration of the street was causing, and that it was not just an inconvenience or monetary damage. I saw cars swerving and nearly causing accidents to avoid that huge pothole.
However, the street itself needs to be extensively patched or completely repaved. This street has an incredibly high volume of traffic with large vehicles including city buses, and the number of potholes and deteriorated areas on the street are beyond the capabilities of this website to document, since there are not sufficient addresses on the street to pinpoint their locations. I would urge the city to reconsider repaving this street.
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Oaklander,
You are right. There is high traffic, but the city does not have any study of that traffic. I will try to convince the city to measure the traffic. I suspect that the city forgot that MacArthur is one way in this area, and that MacArthur is the other half of the traffic. MacArthur is on the repaving plan, Chatham is not.
City of Oakland (Verifizierter Beamter)
This issue can also be followed by watching http://seeclickfix.com/issues/827663
Richard G (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Public Works,
Your link does not make sense. It references a ticket which is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, not even the bay. The ticket has no description, and it is marked as a duplicate of a ticket concerning a street light. Let's separate these tickets again.
Geschlossen City of Oakland (Verifizierter Beamter)
Reopened Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Is this a joke?
This is the second time that the city of Oakland has closed this ticket. The street needs to be repaved. It has not been repaved. Please specify what has been fixed and why the city believes that Chatham is now free of potholes.
Perhaps a few potholes have been filled. I appreciate that. But this ticket is about the entire street. There are a dozen photos of problems on this street. Chatham is a major thoroughfare, and a route to 580W. It needs to be repaved.
Anerkannt City of Oakland (Verifizierter Beamter)
At your convenience, please review the following information regarding the City of Oakland Street/Sidewalk Maintenance Program:
Facts About Oakland's Infrastructure - Streets & Sidewalks http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/s/SST/index.htm
5-Year Paving Plan http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/o/EC/s/STS/OAK030328 Please check back for status updates or contact us directly at (510) 615-5566.
Oaklander (Registrierter Benutzer)
ianmcbean (Registrierter Benutzer)
The Sentinel (Registrierter Benutzer)
Geschlossen City of Oakland (Verifizierter Beamter)
Reopened Oaklander (Registrierter Benutzer)
Anerkannt City of Oakland (Verifizierter Beamter)
At your convenience, please review the following information regarding the City of Oakland Street/Sidewalk Maintenance Program:
Facts About Oakland's Infrastructure - Streets & Sidewalks http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/s/SST/index.htm
5-Year Paving Plan http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/o/EC/s/STS/OAK030328 Please check back for status updates or contact us directly at (510) 615-5566.
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
The Sentinel (Registrierter Benutzer)
Scott Sibley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Don't waste your time with Public Works about this: contact Abel and Libby. Though it acknowledges Chatham as one of the worst streets in Oakland, iPublic Works has no plans to repave or repair it as per their own site and list: http://oakbec.s3.amazonaws.com/MapLanding/maps/pavingdashboard.html#PCI
and
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/pwa/documents/report/oak050754.pdf
though you'll notice a number of streets that are in relatively good repair, e.g. Chabot scheduled for repair.
Timothy Hay (Registrierter Benutzer)
auntles (Registrierter Benutzer)
eastbaybirdnerd (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
I finally found some traffic counts.
This site has bike counts, and includes motor vehicles as well
http://www.oaklandbikemaps.info/counts/
There are 2 intersections with motor vehicle counts on Chatham. The pdfs have data for both streets. It is necessary to go to the raw data to get results on Chatham itself.
13th and Chatham
http://www.oaklandbikemaps.info/counts/location_pdf/415.pdf
Park and Chatham
http://www.oaklandbikemaps.info/counts/location_pdf/247.pdf
Raw data is available from a link on this site:
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/government/o/PWA/o/EC/s/BicycleandPedestrianProgram/BicyclistCountProgram/OAK033011#countsmap
Scott Sibley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Public Works will continue to ignore this unless you reach out to the mayor and council members, which I did earlier this year, resulting in the road being patched. Abel Guillen's chief of staff, Richard Raya got right on it, coordinating with Noel Gallo's office. I'm too busy right now to lead the charge again but you might want to contact the two local newscasters (I forget who they are) who live nearby by, to get them involced in getting this road repaved. Public Works acknowledges Chatham as one of the worst streets in Oakland but has no plans to repave or repair it as per their own site and list: http://oakbec.s3.amazonaws.com/MapLanding/maps/pavingdashboard.html#PCI and
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/pwa/documents/report/oak050754.pdf
You'll notice a number of streets that are in relatively good repair, e.g. Chabot scheduled for repair. I hope that this helps; good luck...
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
On Thursday, February 23, 2006, there are counts for morning, midday,
and afternoon for 2 hours periods
On Chatham at Park Blvd, there were the following counts for motor
vehicles traveling on Chatham, some going straight, some turning left,
some turning right:
7-9AM 1708 vehicles
11:30AM-1:30PM 1094 vehicles
4-6 PM 1568 vehicles
There are also counts for Chatham at 13th Ave, which I have not yet
added up
The Sentinel (Registrierter Benutzer)
Jill (Registrierter Benutzer)
come on get your act again they were get out of office fix the bleeping Street man !!! It has been reported for a long time now years it's been reported years man years!! I suggest everybody contact the city council and the mayor over the street because I don't know what else to do it Public Works sucks at this horrible disgusting excuse for streets maybe the mail have a plan in place forgive me if I don't hold my breath!!!!
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
I talked to Jimmy Mach today
Chatham is in district 5, Noel Gallo's district.
He agreed that this street justifes repavement more than most of the streets which he examines.
He put it on the district 5 list, to be discussed. There are 19 other streets in district 5.
Unfortunately, the priorities are strange, but logical. It is cheaper to fix a street which is in fairly good shape. Once a street is in bad shape, it falls on the list, but some of the worst streets get fixed. Chatham is now on the list.
Absolute best case would be one year away, but that's only if Chatham is on the top of the list. It definitely deserves to be near the top, but there are other streets.
There is an infrastructure bond on the ballot in November. That will help get money for street repair.
Also, call Noel Gallo to mention this street. He's allowed to add input to which streets deserve repaving.
And Gallo is up for election this year.
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Look up street conditions here:
http://oakbec.s3.amazonaws.com/MapLanding/maps/pavingdashboard.html#PCI
Chatham is rated 28, which is in the red section. Pretty bad, but you knew that.
Jill (Registrierter Benutzer)
The Sentinel (Registrierter Benutzer)
Robert Prinz (Registrierter Benutzer)
Thank you all for staying on top of this and not allowing the issue to be closed out or ignored.
Contacting Councilmember Noel Gallo's office is indeed the best step to getting this addressed, as council members get to program about 20% of the available paving funding each year for "worst streets" that are not on the official 5 year paving plan.
I also recommend that everyone look into and consider voting for the Oakland infrastructure bond that will be on the ballot this November, which will enable the city to catch up to the deferred pavement maintenance backlog quicker, and actually save money and be more efficient as a result.
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Robert's right.
Oakland is short on money. Without money, we can't keep up on infrastructure repair.
The infrastructure bond should help fund some of Oakland's shortfall. There are many reasons Oakland has been behind on money. The recession, the earthquake, proposition 13. With our current repaving budge, it takes 85 years to pave all of the streets. We're stuck with the group yelling the loudest getting what they want. Yes, I'm yelling, but I also want to provide money for the subject of my yelling.
Here's a letter which supported putting the infrastructure bond on the ballot.
http://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/publications_pdfs/SPUR%20Letter%20of%20Support%20Oakland%20Infrastructure%20Bond%20FINAL.pdf
We have had some repaving done in the area.
Beaumont, Excelsior, and MacArthur have all been paved in the last few years.
Chatham slipped through the cracks. I tried and failed to raise its priorities a few years ago. I placed my notes here.
Today, I think that I did raise the priority. Jimmy Mach does a good job with the repaving, but he can't do everything with the money he has.
Please, talk to Noel Gallo about this.
But also look at the infrastructure bond.
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
I sent the following email to Councilmember Gallo, NGallo@oaklandnet.com, and Lisa Cota, his aide, lcoto@oaklandnet.com
I suggest that other people do the same.
Councilmember Gallo,
Chatham Road needs to be repaved.
Chatham is one of the busiest, poor quality streets in district 5.
Please place Chatham at the top of the district 5 worst streets.
Chatham is an arterial road with a 2016 PCI score of 28. I recently
discussed Chatham with Jimmy Mach. He agreed that Chatham is a street
that is should be placed high on the list of streets to be repaved.
Because Chatham is in such poor shape, many drivers talk Excelsior
instead of Chatham, taking them by Edna Brewer Middle School, which
places our students at risk. Starting in August, Edna Brewer is the
place where Glenview Elementary students are picked up and dropped
off. We need to move traffic away from Edna Brewer.
Excelsior is an Oakland bicycle route. We need to encourage heavy
motorized traffic to be on streets which are not bicycle
routes. Repaving Chatham will encourage motorized traffic to use
Chatham.
Chatham is a one way street, northwest bound. Its sister street is
MacArthur, southeast bound. MacArthur has already been repaved. It is
time for Chatham to be repaved.
There was a traffic count on Thursday, February 23, 2006, for Chatham
at Park Blvd:
7-9AM 1708 vehicles
11:30AM-1:30PM 1094 vehicles
4-6 PM 1568 vehicles
This is quite high traffic.
This SeeClickFix page describes the problems with Chatham in detail.
http://seeclickfix.com/issues/428750-chatham-is-a-failed-street
Councilmember Gallo, please repave Chatham Road.
Imperfectindeed (Registrierter Benutzer)
Robert Prinz (Registrierter Benutzer)
Imperfectindeed, property taxes are artificially depressed by Prop 13, so newcomers with recently purchased homes may end up seeing big tax bills, but not the majority of Oaklanders who are taxed for a fraction of their homes' worth. The gas tax has also not kept up with inflation, and with more electric cars, hybrids, and greater efficiency people are driving more than before and putting more wear on the roadways but contributing less funding to maintenance per mile traveled.
This doesn't have much to do with Chatham, specifically, but there are many miles of other similarly bad streets in Oakland which have been allowed to crumble and become increasingly expensive to fix, specifically because of our short-sighted taxation priorities in Califoria. A total fix will require property and transportation tax overhauls on the state and national level, but Oakland is doing the best it can locally by stretching every dollar and proposing local funding via things like the already adopted Measure BB, and the proposed infrastructure bond this November. No, it's not ideal, but this is the best chance we have to deal with all the deferred maintenance and save money in the long run.
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Guilty as charged,Robert. After living in the same house for 30 years, I pay very little in property taxes. It goes up every year, but not by much. I could put in extra money, but I don't.
To make it worse, I'm not driving as much, I cycle and take public transportation more. Good news, less wear and tear on streets. Bad news, less money to repair streets.
Imperfectindeed, please contact Gallo and ask him to put Chatham high on the district 5 list of worst streets. Streets on this list will get paved. Gallo can solve the problem for Chatham, because it really is one of the worst streets in district 5.
Gallo himself can't solve the bigger issue, without more money to spend. But Gallo can get this one street repaved.
Scott Sibley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Thanks for your efforts everyone! Just sent (please email your own comments to them and note that Lisa's name is Coto):
Dear Noel and Lisa,
I'm following up on an email I sent you in March, about the need to repave Chatham Road, rated one of the busiest, poor quality streets in district 5. Thank you for working with Richard Raya, Abel Guillen's chief of staff, to have some of its potholes refilled. Unfortunately, it's in even worse condition today, something that filling potholes won't solve. Chatham's sister street, MacArthur, has already been repaved and Jimmy Mach agrees that Chatham should be placed high on the list of streets to be repaved.
Chatham's poor shape causes drivers to take Excelsior, an Oakland bicycle route, past Edna Brewer Middle School, also the drop-off point for kids attending Glenview Elementary, placing both Oakland's bicyclists and children at risk. Please let the community know, on http://seeclickfix.com/issues/428750 that you'll place it at the top of the district 5 worst streets. Thanks for your help and...
All the Best!
Scott
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Thanks for everyone's input. More is probably needed.
Councilmember Gallo has placed Chatham on the district 5 worst streets list. I believe that brings the total to 20 streets. I asked Gallo to tell us where Chatham lies on the list.
If Chatham is at the top of the list, it will take a year to repave. If at the bottom, who knows.
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Noel Gallo did push to have Chatham repaved, after many of us asked him to put Chatham on the list
A request
When Chatham is paved, let's try to keep to the speed limit, and don't run the red light at 13th Avenue too often. I hate being hit when riding my bike across Chatham on 13th.
E33rdSt (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
The Sentinel (Registrierter Benutzer)
E33rdSt (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Well, it was supposed to have been repaved by Spring, 2017.
If it was repaved, it fell apart pretty quickly.
Scott Sibley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
pothole_spotter (Registrierter Benutzer)
The Sentinel (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Oaklander (Registrierter Benutzer)
E33rdSt (Registrierter Benutzer)
The Sentinel (Registrierter Benutzer)
E33rdSt (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kevin Dalley (Registrierter Benutzer)
Did they move the center to the left to allow room for bicycles? I don't usually cycle Chatham, but when I do I want speeding cars as far away from me as possible.
The center is also a bit uneven.
I am probably OK with closing this ticket.
Strangely, Oakland has closed 1300 tickets without checking the status, but hasn't closed this ticket yet.
And acknowledged tickets cannot be closed by users.