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
From SFMTA, an update about the long-awaited Slow Streets program for Hearst Avenue.
SFMTA will implement a Slow Street in your neighborhood next week. Hearst Avenue between Ridgewood Avenue and Baden Street was approved by the SFMTA Board to become a Slow Street back in Spring 2021. Due to a material shortage, the implementation of Lyon Street as a Slow Street had to be delayed until now.
The Slow Streets program aims to create pedestrian and bicycle priority streets that are calmer and allow for shared roadway usage between people walking, biking, rolling, exercising, or driving. The shared roadway facility is created by discouraging vehicle through traffic and encouraging slower vehicle speeds using traffic diverters and signage.
Slow Streets are not full street closures and local vehicle traffic, delivery/mail services, and emergency responders can still access the Slow Street.
Additionally, although Slow Streets are pedestrian and bicycle priority streets, pedestrians and bicyclists utilizing the Slow Street must yield the road to oncoming vehicles.
Please help inform community members in your neighborhood through your communication channels about the implementation of the Hearst Slow Street happening by the end of next week. I’ve attached a flyer for your reference that you can include in any messaging to inform community members.
For more information on the Slow Streets Program visit https://SFMTA.com/SlowStreets. If you have any questions, please email us directly at SlowStreets@sfmta.com.
Continue reading “Slow Streets for Hearst Ave. due to arrive next week”
The first phase of public outreach regarding the proposal to include Hearst Avenue (in the Outer Mission neighborhood of Sunnyside) in the SFMTA Slow Streets program has now closed. The response was largely positive. Read full results of the outreach process here.
The schedule for implementation is:
| Internal review with city partner agencies | December 2020 – January 2021 |
| SFMTA Board of Directors approval | February 16, 2021 |
| Additional community outreach | Late February 2021 |
| Implementation of Phase 4 | Beginning March 2021 |
Sunnyside Neighborhood Association 