Photo by SFMTA Photography Department
In mid-August, together with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, SFMTA, SFUSD, SFPD, students, and community members, our Chief Deputy Director Maria Lombardo helped to celebrate improvements to street safety and traffic calming at Flynn Elementary School ahead of the first day of school.
The Transportation Authority supports various transportation safety improvements throughout San Francisco. Our agency provides voter-approved Prop D TNC tax funds to reduce speed limits on corridors eligible for speed reduction under Assembly Bill 43. Signed into law in 2021, this bill gives local jurisdictions greater flexibility to lower local speed limits by 5 mph in safety corridors, business districts, and areas with high concentrations of vulnerable road users, such as near schools and senior centers.
Traffic calming and speed limit reduction projects funded with Prop D TNC tax funds include Quick Build projects to install the signs that display lower speed limits on streets near schools across the city.
The Transportation Authority also provides voter-approved Prop L sales tax and regional One Bay Area Grant funds for the SFMTA’s Safe Routes to School program. The program provides resources, organizational support, and activities that support students walking, rolling, carpooling, and taking transit to and from school. The Prop L program also funds school area engineering projects including pedestrian safety, signal upgrades and bicycle facility projects citywide.
On August 14, the Office of the Mayor shared that San Francisco is leading the state in lowering speed limits near schools. The city has increased traffic enforcement with speed safety cameras which are helping to reduce vehicle speeds by as much as 94% in school zones. The city also continues to provide crossing guards.
Photo by SFMTA Photography Department
