The curious incident involving a "created" financial document, $21 million and a former chancellor has come to a close.
San Francisco taxpayers will save about a million dollars per year.
Pedestrian safety improvements for much of Monterey Boulevard have been approved by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority.
Pedestrian safety improvements for much of Monterey Boulevard have been approved by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority.
The San Francisco County Transportation Authority board approved funding on Tuesday for pedestrian safety improvements on Monterey Boulevard.
Supervisors approved allocating $350,000 from the District 7 Neighborhood Program funds to design and construct safety measures on Monterey Boulevard between Acadia Street and San Anselmo Avenue. The project includes the area of the corridor between Baden and Edna streets, which is on the city’s high-injury corridor where 68% of severe and fatal crashes occur on 12% of the city’s streets.
SFCTA documents show that the project will include restriping the vehicle travel lanes to narrow them to slow vehicle speeds, installing a rectangular flashing beacon at the crosswalk of Acadia Street and Monterey Boulevard on the east side and daylighting four intersections that would restrict parking near the crosswalk to improve visibility for motorists and pedestrians at the crosswalk.
Other proposed project elements include installing painted safety zones at 10 locations, painting advance limit lines at four intersections so that motorists stop further from the crosswalk and stripping new or upgrading continental crosswalks at nine intersections.
In the SFCTA Community Advisory Committee report, chairperson Kat Siegal said that Sara Barz, the committee's District 7 representative, had concerns about the Monterey Boulevard pedestrian improvements, specifically at Acadia Street.
Barz was concerned about whether there should even be a crosswalk at Acradia given its poor design and proximity to the freeway offramp. Additionally, Barz drew concerns about the intersection of Monterey Boulevard and Congo Street, citing sideswipe crashes near her son’s preschool.
Paul Stanis, the acting pedestrian program manager with the Municipal Transportation Agency, said in the minutes that he would follow up with Barz to ask other agency staff to see if other measures could be implemented beyond the proposal in the Monterey Boulevard plans.
The safety improvements on Monterey Boulevard are anticipated to be completed in the fall of 2027.
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