Bumpy Crossings Derailed - Smoother Roads for Oakland

This section is responsible for planning and designing street widening, street rehabilitation, streetscape improvement and other street improvement projects, curb ramp improvements for disabled access, repair of slides on City roads. Click here for information about the sidewalk repair program.

This section is also responsible for the following functions:

1. Establishing and updating street and sidewalk design standards
2. Seismic retrofit of bridges
3. Geotechnical investigations
4. Retaining wall and landslide repair
5. Curb ramp design construction
6. Public Works specifications
7. Measure DD funded projects
8. Streetscape and street design
9. Federal grant programs
10. Pavement management
11. Cyclic pavement resurfacing

Facts About Oakland's Infrastructure - Streets and Sidewalks

• Maintain 2,300 lane miles of streets; 1,120 miles of linear sidewalk (the distance from Oakland to El Paso, TX); and 150 blocks of pedestrian pathways.
• Currently on an 85-year resurfacing cycle, which means a street will be resurfaced once in your lifetime. The industry standard is a 25-year cycle.
• 33% of streets are in Very Good to Excellent condition; 35% in Good to Fair condition; and 32% in Poor to Very Poor condition.
• Property owners are responsible for maintaining the sidewalks adjacent to their property, unless damaged from a city-owned street tree.
• Repaired 930 city-owned, tree-damaged sidewalks in 2004.
• Learn more Facts About Oakland's Infrastructure (pdf format)

Contact:

Supervising Civil Engineer
Emad Mirsaeidi (510) 238-6603

Office Assistant II
Dorothy Evans (510) 777-8395