Report Hazards
Submitted by admin on February 24, 2007 - 7:43pm.
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Report road hazards in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties using the EBBC Online Hazard Reporting System. EBBC will forward your report the proper authorities. With this effective system, we empower YOU to make grassroots contributions that benefit everyone.
About Reporting Hazards
The EBBC wants to improve cycling conditions by eliminating hazards for bicyclists. You can help by reporting any hazards you experience in your bicycle travels. Examples of hazards include:
- ruts or potholes in pavement
- dangerous drop-offs at the edge of pavement
- unswept road portions covered with debris
- left turn signals not
responsive to bicycles - hazardous railroad crossings
- dangerous parallel drain gates and signs that
force bicyclists to use sidewalks, narrow paths, etc.
In September 2004, EBBC made a major upgrade to our Online Hazard Reporting System. The new web-based hazard reporting system features a full-blown database backend with automated email. Features include:
- Automatic email notification about any progress on fixing a reported problem
- Search hazards reported in your neighborhood or in other areas of interest
- Attach digital photos of the scene to your report
- Unique web address assigned to each hazard report, very handy to include in your letters to public works.
Authorities/agencies that receive notification from users of the EBBC Hazard Reporting Form are given notice pursuant to the California Government Code Section 835.2:
NOTICE OF DANGEROUS CONDITION
Under California Government Code Section 835.2, you are hereby placed on actual notice of two dangerous conditions of public property. The following conditions on your property create a substantial risk of injury when your property is used with due care in a manner in which it
is reasonably foreseeable that it will be used:
CALIFORNIA CODES GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 835-835.4
835. Except as provided by statute, a public entity is liable for injury caused by a dangerous condition of its property if the
plaintiff establishes that the property was in a dangerous condition at the time of the injury, that the injury was proximately caused by
the dangerous condition, that the dangerous condition created a reasonably forseeable risk of the kind of injury which was incurred,
and that either:
(a) A negligent or wrongful act or omission of an employee of the
public entity within the scope of his employment created the
dangerous condition; or
(b) The public entity had actual or constructive notice of the
dangerous condition under Section 835.2 a sufficient time prior to
the injury to have taken measures to protect against the dangerous
condition.
835.2.
(a) A public entity had actual notice of a dangerous
condition within the meaning of subdivision (b) of Section 835 if it
had actual knowledge of the existence of the condition and knew or
should have known of its dangerous character.
(b) A public entity had constructive notice of a dangerous
condition within the meaning of subdivision (b) of Section 835 only
if the plaintiff establishes that the condition had existed for such
a period of time and was of such an obvious nature that the public
entity, in the exercise of due care, should have discovered the
condition and its dangerous character. On the issue of due care,
admissible evidence includes but is not limited to evidence as to:
(1) Whether the existence of the condition and its dangerous
character would have been discovered by an inspection system that was
reasonably adequate (considering the practicability and cost of
inspection weighed against the likelihood and magnitude of the
potential danger to which failure to inspect would give rise) to
inform the public entity whether the property was safe for the use or
uses for which the public entity used or intended others to use the
public property and for uses that the public entity actually knew
others were making of the public property or adjacent property.
(2) Whether the public entity maintained and operated such an
inspection system with due care and did not discover the condition.
