One item on the agenda of the upcoming SFMTA Engineering Public Hearing on Dec 17, 2021, is a third Baywheels bike-share station for Sunnyside, to be located on Circular Avenue at Baden Street. The public is welcome at the meeting. More here including how to attend.
Meet your neighbors and enjoy Sunnyside’s new Slow Street on Hearst Avenue. Saturday August 28, 2021, from 1 to 5 PM. Between Congo and Foerster streets.
Activities for kids, bikes, food, music and fun! Games with prizes at 2 PM. Big Wheels parade–Meet at Ridgewood at 3 PM.
Download the PDF flyer here.
Request a window sign here.
Sponsored by Slow Hearst http://www.slowhearst.org
Just hours after the recent criminal destruction of Slow Streets signage on Hearst Avenue, SFMTA began to replace the damaged signs at each of the seven intersections. The work is now complete, and all the signs have been fixed.
Thank you, SFMTA, for the prompt response!
Today workers from the Dept of Public Works are installing the signage for Slow Streets on Hearst Avenue. As of midday, they have finished from Baden to Edna, which leaves Foerster to Ridgewood to be done. There are seven intersections total, and all will be well signed.
The signage has two parts, three plastic soft-hit posts on the roadway with signs attached, and a large “ROADWAY CLOSED TO THROUGH TRAFFIC” on a standard metal pole in the sidewalk. Local access by residents and visitors is not in any way prohibited. Families traveling to and from local schools are likewise not impacted by the program.
What is “Slow Streets”? From the SFMTA website:
The SFMTA’s Slow Streets program is designed to limit through traffic on certain residential streets and allow them to be used as a shared space for people traveling by foot and by bicycle. Throughout the city, nearly thirty corridors have been implemented as a Slow Street. On these Slow Streets, signage and barricades have been placed to minimize through vehicle traffic and prioritize walking and biking. The goal of the Slow Streets program is to provide more space for socially distant essential travel and exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.sfmta.com/projects/slow-streets-program
[UPDATE Dec 19, 2020: Survey closed. See the results of the survey here.]
SFMTA’s Slow Streets program aims to make more socially distanced, covid-safe outdoor space available in neighborhoods, and has been implemented in many other areas of the city. The program has yet to come to a street in Sunnyside, Ingleside, or any other south-central district. For the next phase of the program, Sunnyside’s Hearst Avenue was chosen. Hearst is already the bicycle route through the neighborhood, which coordinates with the Slow Streets program aim of encouraging non-car use of the street.
Right now, SFMTA is taking your feedback about Hearst Ave. as a choice for the program. To learn more about what this would mean for the neighborhood and to give your feedback via a short survey, visit this page: https://www.sfmta.com/projects/slow-streets-outer-mission
Sunnyside Neighborhood Association 