Melrose Safe Streets
April 2020
After Victim Impact Letter #2 the City of Oakland responded and began implementing some of the initiatives we’ve been meeting about since 2019.
January 2020
Leadership agreed to push and spend the $400K District 4 Councilmember Sheng Thao acquired for pedestrian medians and a stop sign for Melrose.
October 2019
Leadership brainstormed wrote the first Victim Impact Statement Letter 1 using our Melrose map to define specific intersections where we want to see traffic safety & business development.
July 2019
City of Oakland Council Staff helped a small summer member group start to determine which blocks are aligned with 3 of 4 Districts - At Large is the fourth.
April 2019
Melrose writes the first Community Letter of Support for Safe Streets to follow up and find out what happened to the $5M project planned for Melrose in 2014.
March 2020
Amid the Coronavirus crisis Shelter in Place Melrose lost 2 neighbors as a result of car collisions, so we wrote Letter #2 to demand safety action.
December 2019
Warren Logan, the Mayor’s Department of Transportation Policy Director, came and sat on a porch with us one Friday night to witness Foothill Blvd speeding.
September 2019
Melrose members pitched their ideas about Action Committees they’d like to start and explained what they want to do to improve Melrose in various ways.
June 2019
After Melrose Community’s Letter of support for Safe Streets, District 4 Councilmember Thao’s Staff secured $400K in the 2019-2021 budget.
March 2019
The Street Beautification and Safe Streets plans that took 5 years to put together and were approved to move forward went silent since 2014.
February 2020
There were a lot of Public Safety meetings in January and FEbruary and met w/ OPD to determine next steps toward Safe Streets.
November 2019
Leadership met with District 4 Councilmember Sheng Thao to share the beginnings of our overall vision for Melrose.
August 2019
The Melrose maps were resonating with members but everyone was confused where exactly the lines exist between Districts 4, 5 & 6 so we mapped it out.
May 2019
Non-profits who visited Melrose’s NCPC meetings were able to clearly define the blocks where they were doing work with community members.
