The Traffic Committee is a group of Annex residents working toward safer streets for everyone. We collect neighbors’ first-hand reports, track local infrastructure projects, and build coalitions with safety groups across Richmond, El Cerrito, and the Bay Area. We meet every second Tuesday; email [email protected] to join.
Richmond Annex Traffic Calming Survey Results
Richmond Annex residents are telling us where traffic feels dangerous and why. Most of what they describe (near-misses, blown stop signs, blind crossings) never becomes an official crash record. The information collected here gives the City of Richmond qualitative evidence of traffic dangers in the Richmond Annex and can help prioritize future safety improvements.
Seen something dangerous? Tell us where.
This map is built entirely from the neighborhood survey. Take five minutes to add what you see. Every response sharpens the picture we bring to the city.
Where residents feel unsafe
Every location named in the survey, geocoded with Google Maps and sized by how many residents flagged it, colored by severity. Streets that residents described along their length are drawn as lines. Carlson Blvd and its intersections dominate. Click a marker or line for the problems reported there and a resident’s own words.
What residents reported
Each resident could select several answers, so percentages are share of people who answered that question and add to more than 100%.
The near-misses behind the numbers
Verbatim from the survey.
About this data
Source: Richmond Annex Traffic Survey, collected in four languages. Multi-select answers are rolled up by matching each response against the exact option list, so options that contain commas, like “Blocked visibility (parked cars, hedges, signs),” are counted correctly.
Hotspot mentions are counted from residents’ free-text descriptions of unsafe streets. A single response often named several locations. Pin positions are geocoded from those location names via the Google Geocoding API and can be hand-corrected before any formal submission.
Map data © Google. Street lines © OpenStreetMap contributors. Prepared for the Richmond Annex Neighborhood Traffic Calming Committee.