More Sideshow Deterrents Coming To The Neighborhood

San Francisco will try to make it harder for drivers who want to gather in the neighborhood for illegal sideshows by installing a number of traffic calming measures at key intersections.

Members of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority board Tuesday approved $700,000 in local sales tax funds to plan, design and install traffic calming and sideshow prevention measures. The goal is to keep local streets safe for pedestrians and bicyclists by preventing speeding and cut-through traffic while deterring illegal sideshows.

The traffic calming measures will be installed at 27 locations, 10 of which are in District 11. They include speed humps, speed cushions and raised crosswalks along with centerline and corner hardening with rubber speed humps, delineator posts and botts dots.

While preliminary locations were shared at the meeting, the staff report said that prioritizing locations of the measures will be determined through public outreach conducted by the District 11 supervisor’s office and working with the Municipal Transportation Agency and the Police Department. The finalized list will be submitted to the SFCTA.

The traffic measures are anticipated to be completed by fall 2027.

In September, supervisors approved laws proposed by Mayor London Breed to better enforce sideshows.

Legislation To Curb Unlawful Sideshows Advances To Board Of Supervisors - The Ingleside Light

Despite concerns of over policing, legislation designed to curtail unlawful sideshows will move to the Board of Supervisors.

The Ingleside LightJerold Chinn

The new laws make it illegal for persons who participate in promoting a sideshow and who participate in assembling a sideshow, including cars that help to block streets to set up sideshows.

Other new laws include making it illegal to prevent law enforcement from disrupting sideshows and extending the time the city can hold a seized vehicle in a sideshow for more than 30 days if the district attorney is charging a case.