SFMTA sends this update on how they are implementing pedestrian safety improvements in Sunnyside, in part as a result of our Participating Budgeting grant from last year, but also due to the increased attention Monterey Blvd is getting since being identified as a High-Injury Corridor last year. Images added by SNA for illustration.

It’s time for an update on the progress of the Sunnyside area traffic and safety improvements were listed in the participatory budget application.

• The feedback on daylighting of intersections on Monterey Blvd, Hearst Street and Congo Street were mostly supportive of some parking loss to increasing pedestrian safety, so we are moving forward with this plan.

  

  Work orders should be sent out in the next week or two with implementation within the next month.

• We do not recommend stop signs at Gennessee/Hearst and Congo/Mangels. Additional red zones as part of the daylighting will be installed. Continental crosswalks will be installed at Gennessee/Hearst.  

• We do not recommend crosswalks at Congo/Hearst or Congo/Mangels as they do not meet our criteria for marked crosswalks.

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  Monterey Blvd crosswalks will be upgraded to continental crosswalks at Gennessee, Congo, Baden and Acadia Streets. Work orders will be sent in the next week or two.

• Limit lines on Monterey Blvd will be installed to increase pedestrian visibility at Gennessee and Foerster Streets. These lines will encourage drivers to stop farther back from the crosswalk. Work orders will be sent in the next week or two.
• Joost and Mangels Streets between Baden and Congo Streets meet the criteria for a 15 mph speed limit. SPEED LIMIT 15 signs have been work ordered and should be installed soon.
• Joost between Baden and Congo Streets meet our criteria for speed humps. We just cleared them with other city departments, so a Public Hearing on them is scheduled for May 18th. Residents on this block of Joost should be receiving ballots to vote on the speed hump in the next few weeks.
• The SFPUC has given us permission to install a speed radar feedback sign on their streetlight on Monterey west of Acadia. Work orders should be going out to our Shops to install the sign in the next week with implementation by the end of June.

 

[More about types of pedestrian safety measures here. -Edit.]

Thank you for your patience,

Philip Louie, P.E.
Associate Engineer
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
1 South Van Ness Avenue, 7^th Floor
San Francisco, CA  94103
Email: philip.louie@sfmta.com
Phone: 415.701.4464
www.sfmta.com