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Traffic signal ineffective; no dedicated lefts Acknowledged

High Street & San Leandro Street Oakland, California Show on Map Hide Map
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Issue ID:

2165381

Submitted To:

City of Oakland - OLD

Category:

Other: Traffic Signal

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Neighborhood:

Melrose

Reported:

on

Service Request ID:

628757

Description

There are countless near-misses (and I'm sure plenty of unfortunate accidents) at the intersection of High and San Leandro. Anyone heading northwest on San Leandro often has to wait for 3, 4, even 5 signal cycles to be able to turn left on High Street, and it's even worse when there's something going on at O.co.

When there are two cars facing each other, waiting to turn left onto High in opposite directions, it's dangerous to any cars trying to go straight through the intersection; the turning cars will often not see cars changing lanes to go straight through and, again, you could stand there for 5 minutes and see plenty of cringeworthy close calls.

Not only that, but at least 1-2 cars waiting to turn will often run the red (ones that aren't actually in the intersection yet when it turns from yellow to red, that is), blocking up the intersection and holding up the crossing flow of traffic.

Please seriously consider installing left turn signals, which could still be mixed-use lanes (e.g., one left+straight, one straight—no need for new lane configurations, given the limited space), but the flow of traffic with the left-turn signal goes first to clear out all the turners (and then it cycles across, and so forth). I'm certain that the number of potential and actual accidents—and unhappy drivers waiting forever to turn—would be almost entirely eliminated.

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