Thank you for your request to improve the safety and efficiency of Alameda’s transportation system. It has been received as #19-11-0036. Public Works maintains 85 signalized intersections in Alameda. Depending on the nature of your request, our transportation engineer and/or our signal shop will respond within the next two weeks . If your request is an urgent matter, please call 747-7930 and describe the urgency.

There was just a car accident at the intersection of 5th and Haight today a few hours after I requested stop signs.

I agree - this needs to be a four way stop!

Also sharing photos from a recent accident at this intersection

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last photo. These are from an accident on 7/31. There was another accident last week and I hear tires squealing from near accidents pretty much every day since I work from home.

I second the motion for a stop sign!

I agree this intersection needs a 4-way stop. I have lived here for years and recognize this has the most dangerous in the area, due to its close location to multiple schools and a park.

This effort is long overdue. Having lived here at the intersection of Fifth & Haight for the past 25+ years, We've seen, numerous accidents, traffic worsen, speeds ignored, walking students increase, drivers being more distracted and have had more than a few close calls as a pedestrian. We feel a 4-way stop will go a long way to help mitigate these trends.

This intersection is way overdue for a 4 way stop. As others have stated, it is located between 2 elementary schools and just a block away from Longfellow park. Crossing this intersection is scary when I am with my children. I would never want them crossing it alone.

The intersection at 5th and Haight is extremely dangerous. Car drivers crossing 5th or turning onto 5th must encroach into 5th to see traffic. Cars on 5th are speeding either to make the light on Lincoln, to get to school on time, or just because they can. Many drivers pull a u-turn at that intersection and don't/can't see the on coming 5th street drivers. And that's just the car to car issues. Then there's the pedestrians, bike riders, scooter, strollers, etc. who are trying to cross the street to go to the market, the park, school, to their friends down the street. While trying to cross safely, they are sometimes less visible to the speeding, distracted drivers. Having a 4 way stop would help curb the speeding, make the drivers more aware of the crossings of cars, bikes and pedestrians. It would help keep our neighborhood safe.

I also live near the intersection mentioned above and have seen/heard several accidents. I am also the parent of two kids who cross this intersection frequently and who will be walking to elementary school here soon. I agree wholeheartedly with the need for a 4 way stop.

Thank you for your request to improve roadway, pedestrian and bike safety in Alameda.  We appreciate your feedback and value your input.  At the direction of City Council in November 2019, the City is working to address safety for all modes of travel around the City in accordance with its Vision Zero Action Plan and Active Transportation Plan. Please visit the following link to learn more about how we are Building Safer Streets: https://www.alamedaca.gov/Departments/Public-Works/Building-Safer-Streets.

The City has created a new SeeClickFix category specifically for identifying safety issues - “Street Safety Concern.” Concerns will be used to identify safety trends citywide, which will inform the development of safety projects and initiatives to address these trends. Per City Council direction, prioritization of resources and work is to be guided by Vision Zero and the defined high injury network corridors and intersections. Locations that are not on the high injury network will still be considered for safety and solutions will be integrated into future Capital Improvements Programs. We have added this concern to that category for you. If you continue to feel unsafe at this location, please feel free to report it again using the link below.

Click here to report your Street Safety Concern: https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/Gvn1p3WRLo52iziy7HaYwdUc/report/category/33342/location

Again, thank you for your feedback and patience with this matter. We look forward to implementing the appropriate measures to help address the concerns you have brought our attention.

Another accident at this intersection. Please put in 4 way stop and make the intersection more visible for crossing.

Both cars were totaled.
One car struck the corner house(and the gas main) where kids come in and out all the time.
3+ fire trucks came.
3+ police vehicles came.
The street was blocked off.
PGE came to deal with the gas leak and stayed all day.
3 houses were evacuated for a few hours.

This is an expensive dangerous intersection.

Another crash from Dec 27, 2021.

Two car crash

Two police cars, smashed front end of one car, smashed side of another car.
Another expensive crash.

Please put in speed bumps on 5th.

Hello - please put in a four way stop sign at this intersection. I believe the number of crashes "required" by the city to merit a four way stop has now been met. Please do not delay further as the city has done with other intersections, only meeting the community's concerns once there has been grave injury or loss of life. Must the community take legal action against the city before our concerns will be heard and addressed?

Thank you for reporting your concerns about street safety in Alameda. Fifth Street from Buena Vista to Central will be resurfaced in 2022 (download the pavement management map at www.AlamedaCA.gov/SaferStreets#section-5). As part of this pavement maintenance project, the City will implement the following to improve safety for all roadway users along Fifth Street:
- Add daylighting (red curbs) at intersections that do not meet the City’s current safety standards, to improve visibility. (daylighting info www.AlamedaCA.gov/SaferStreets#section-3)
- Consider adding new marked crosswalks in select locations.
- Consider adding paint and post bulbouts at select intersections to shorten pedestrian and bicycle crossing distances and slow turning vehicles.
- Consider other striping changes to slow vehicles.
- Hold a public meeting to describe this year’s overall paving program and timeline (date TBD).
- The City is actively working on these resurfacing plans. Later this spring we’ll have a better idea of the specific improvements that will be made.

Further improvements for Fifth Street are not planned for this year. The City, per its Vision Zero policy, uses crash data to prioritize traffic safety improvements where they are needed most, and, as you can see in the maps of the high injury corridors and high crash intersections (found at www.alamedaca.gov/VisionZero#section-4). Fifth St is not a high injury corridor according to ten years of crash data.
Several other planning and capital projects are underway which will directly or indirectly improve this corridor over time:

- Fifth Street is proposed to be a traffic-calmed bicycle boulevard in the draft Active Transportation Plan recommendations (see the map at https://tooledesign.github.io/F0061-Alameda-City-ATP/new/). If this plan is approved by Council and this corridor is prioritized, staff would first conduct a study of the existing conditions and needed improvements to slow and reduce traffic along the corridor, and then would seek funding and implement improvements. More information about this Plan, expected be adopted by the City Council by the end of this year, is at www.activealameda.org. Information about bike boulevards and the types of treatments that might be considered are here: https://www.activealameda.org/files/assets/public/departments/alameda/transportation/bikeboulevards_11x17.pdf. Get involved in the project by joining the mailing list at www.AlamedaCA.gov/subscribe.
- Lincoln/Marshall/Pacific Safety Improvements Project: As part of this corridor safety improvement project, the City is doing an in-depth study of needed safety improvements along Lincoln. This includes the Fifth/Lincoln/Marshall intersection, which is a gateway to the southern part of Fifth Street. Changes to this intersection have the potential to reduce and slow traffic that uses Fifth Street. We encourage you to participate in this planning process by subscribing to the mailing list at www.AlamecaCA.gov/subscribe. The project page is www.AlamedaCA.gov/Lincoln.

- Central Ave Safety Improvement Project: As part of this corridor project, planned to be constructed in 2023/24, the City will install high-visibility crosswalks and painted bulbouts at the intersection of Fifth/Central. As with the Lincoln/Marshall intersection, these improvements can have a calming effect on traffic entering this section of Fifth St. The project page is www.AlamedaCA.gov/Central.

- The City will be creating criteria for installing traffic calming devices such as neighborhood traffic circles and speed humps along residential streets and also planned bicycle boulevards. Once this guidance is developed, the City will be in a better position to evaluate requests it receives from residents throughout the city for these devices.