Hayward City Council to hold work session on street safety—Tuesday, March 24

The Hayward City Council will hold a special work session on Tuesday to receive a staff presentation, invite public input and provide direction on strategies for reducing traffic-related injuries in Hayward and making City streets safer for all users.

The work session, which will take place during a regular City Council meeting starting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, was scheduled in response to three pedestrian fatalities that took place on Hayward streets within a 10-day period last month.

In 2023, the Council adopted a Local Road Safety Plan (LRSP), which identifies streets and intersections where the most severe and fatal incidents occur and calls for counter measures to improve safety on this High Injury Network of roadways. A map of the High Injury Network can be found here.

The LRSP also established Vision Zero, a City policy objective of reducing all traffic fatalities and serious injuries to zero by the year 2050.

As part of the Council work session on Tuesday, City staff will present a set of additional recommended short-term actions to enhance safety along High Injury Network roadways, including focused traffic enforcement, easily implementable intersection design changes, adjustments to pedestrian traffic signal timing, and changes in locations where drivers are allowed to make right turns at a red traffic light.

To learn more about the LRSP and related projects being undertaken by the Transportation Division of the Hayward Department of Public Works, start here on the City of Hayward website, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the "Projects" drop-down menu.