Traffic Calming

Many merchants often dread street construction projects because they fear it will keep shoppers away from their stores, rarely considering the impacts everyday automobile traffic has on business. They're more likely to defend automobile traffic and parking based on the myth that most of their customers drive.

The SFMTA Board of Directors yesterday approved a plan to restore a one-way arterial section of Hayes Street to a calmer two-way street that would help favor walking, bicycling and transit on the commercial corridor. However, despite the extensive planning process and community support for the project, the discussion wasn’t without contention.

When someone is hit by a driver on the streets in San Francisco, cultural attitudes typically dictate that the person police determine to be at fault should shoulder the blame. But a new collaborative effort between SFPD and the SFMTA could help expand the scope of crash investigations.

Finding great examples of bike-friendly streets doesn't always mean looking across borders to international cities. Here in San Francisco, gems of physically separated bikeways and traffic-calmed neighborhood streets can be found on an oft-overlooked bicycle route along Hugo Street and Kezar Drive that connects the Inner Sunset to areas east.

Parents seeking a vibrant, community-filled urban lifestyle filled with chance street corner chats on the walk to the grocery store may find living on Fell Street leaves a lot to be desired.

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A redesign of Folsom Street in the Mission District aimed at calming motor traffic and improving conditions for walking and bicycling is one step closer to becoming a reality. A proposal to add bike lanes and bus bulbs is now on its way to the SFMTA Board of Directors.

A long-awaited blueprint to significantly improve safety and livability conditions on Cesar Chavez Street was approved by SFMTA Board today, culminating nearly a decade of community input and planning.

A plan to restore two-way traffic on several blocks of Hayes and Fell Streets in Hayes Valley that were converted to one-way streets in the 1950s was approved at an SFMTA hearing today following a strong show of support from residents, merchants and neighborhood associations. It now goes to the SFMTA Board for approval.