SFMTA Livable Streets

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Livable Streets page to Merge With SFMTA’s Main Page The SFMTA’s Livable Streets team leads our agency’s crucial mission of making San Francisco a better, safer place to walk and bike. As part of our efforts to share more of that work and expand the conversation about safer streets, we’re making some changes to our social media channels. On October 28...

Recently, an advocacy group called SFMTrA installed their own safe hit posts along a section of the John F. Kennedy Drive bike lane at the eastern entrance to Golden Gate Park. Because the city is moving towards smaller street sweepers, we'll be able to leave these unofficial posts in place until we can install our own.

Bike Lane Posts Installed By Safety Vigilantes Can Stay, Says SFMTA This is a huge win for SFMTrA, which illegally installed the posts early last week. The city plans to leave the posts in until officials can install permanent ones.

Progress being made at 9th/Division, the site of our first "protected intersection." This island significantly shortens two crossings for pedestrians and provides a slot for bicyclists, while also encouraging slower speed right turns by motorists. For more information about the project: https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/blog/sf%E2%80%99s-first-%E2%80%98protected-intersection%E2%80%99-break-ground-9th-and-division

New Speed Enforcement Campaign Will Be Driven By Growing Data An SFPD officer uses a LIDAR device to measure driver speeds on Folsom Street in SoMa. The next step in our city’s Safe Streets SF campaign starts in October with a new initiative to bring more strategic enforcement to curb speeding - and study its effectiveness - on San Francisco’s most speed-prone...

https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/blog/san-francisco-growing-driving-not-so-much

San Francisco is Growing. Driving? Not So Much. Fremont and Howard Streets, with the Transbay Transit Center under construction behind. Photo: Sergio Ruiz/Flickr As San Francisco grows, the city’s investments in encouraging people to take transit, bike and walk are paying off. That’s the picture from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 American Communi...

Upcoming community meeting regarding proposals for 7th and 8th Street:

7th Street and 8th Street Safety Projects Open House: 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 22
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission Street x. 6th Street
Nearby Muni Routes: 14 Mission, F Market, Metro-Civic Center Station

7th and 8th streets are intersected by multiple high injury corridors on San Francisco’s High Injury Network, which is the 12 percent of city streets that account for 70 percent of San Francisco’s traffic crashes. They are busy, one-way streets that are crucial to keeping San Francisco moving. This project will make these streets safer and more comfortable for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers.

SFMTA staff will provide details on the project and discuss how a planned re-route of the 19 Polk will make it safer and quicker through the SoMa and Civic Center neighborhoods. Staff will also gather feedback on how parking and loading can be better managed.

You can visit the project webpage for more information or to sign up for email updates.
https://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/7th-street-and-8th-street-safety-projects

Upcoming community meeting regarding proposals for parking protected bikeways!

7th Street and 8th Street Safety Projects Open House: 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 22
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission Street x. 6th Street
Nearby Muni Routes: 14 Mission, F Market, Metro-Civic Center Station

7th and 8th streets are intersected by multiple high injury corridors on San Francisco’s High Injury Network, which is the 12 percent of city streets that account for 70 percent of San Francisco’s traffic crashes. They are busy, one-way streets that are crucial to keeping San Francisco moving. This project will make these streets safer and more comfortable for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers.

SFMTA staff will provide details on the project and discuss how a planned re-route of the 19 Polk will make it safer and quicker through the SoMa and Civic Center neighborhoods. Staff will also gather feedback on how parking and loading can be better managed.

You can visit the project webpage for more information or to sign up for email updates. https://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/7th-street-and-8th-street-safety-projects

An example for how not to lock your bike, as demonstrated by this lonely wheel on 2nd Street. For tips on how to lock your bicycle as securely as possible: https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/bicycling/keep-your-bike-safe

Bike Share in the Bay Area now has a sponsor: https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/blog/bay-area-bike-share-boom-sponsorship-ford

Big improvements in our bikeway network are underway and on their way: https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/blog/new-generation-bikeways-coming-san-francisco

A New Generation of Bikeways is Coming to San Francisco You should be able to ride a bike in safety, whether you’re 20 years old, eight or 80. That’s the vision we’re working towards, and the only way we’re going to get there is by building safer streets that offer more protection for people biking. In support of Mayor Ed Lee’s recent Executive Directive...

A new raised crosswalk on Steiner leading to Duboce Park improves safety for everyone by reducing speeding along this popular route for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers.

Near term improvements on Cesar Chavez at the Hairball to repair and smooth out the ramp from the roadway to the path are underway, with some asphalt patch work coming up!