Make California Street safer for everyone
Victoria Chong, Transit Planner, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)

California Street between Arguello Blvd and Park Presidio Blvd has a high risk of traffic injuries and collisions. On average, 6 people are injured due to traffic collisions every year. The current four-lane configuration, with two travel lanes in each direction, encourages excessive speeding and leads to injuries. Muni buses, which are 10.5 feet wide, are too wide for the current lanes, which are 8-9 feet wide. Collisions are more frequent with buses on the corridor, inconveniencing and endangering bus riders.
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SFMTA is proposing a series of safety improvements that will make California Street safer for everyone:
- Reconfigure the roadway to have three lanes: one travel lane in each direction and a center turn lane, so that motorists drive slower and safer.
- Widen 8-foot lanes to accommodate 10.5-foot buses.
- "Daylighting": Remove parking next to intersections so that people operating vehicles can better see other people on foot and in vehicles
- Continental crosswalks that improve the safety of people crossing the street
- Setting back limit lines for stop signs and traffic signals at intersections, so that people in vehicles can better see people crossing the street
- Changing signal timings so that people on foot have more time to cross the street
- Better signage
We strongly believe that this package of safety features is necessary and urgent to prevent injuries and deaths on our streets, and that it advances the city's Vision Zero goal of ending traffic deaths by 2025. Your support helps show the MTA that these changes are backed by neighbors and users of this street.
This petition is hosted by Northern Neighbors and Grow the Richmond. Northern Neighbors is an urbanist organization that supports affordable, livable, lively, environmentally conscious, and safe environments in our northern neighborhoods. Grow the Richmond is a neighborhood group in the Richmond that advocates for more housing.
Read more here: SFMTA California Street Safety Project
To:
Victoria Chong, Transit Planner, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)
From:
[Your Name]
I support the proposed California Street Safety Project. There are too many preventable traffic injuries on this stretch of California Street. It is important to me that we design our streets to avoid traffic injuries, and to reach our Vision Zero goal to end traffic deaths by 2024. Please implement this project as soon as possible.