Celebrating People-Powered Ways to Get Around

On October 9, we joined WalkSF, SFMTA, and our partners with Safe Routes to School to celebrate Walk and Roll to School Week at Dianne Feinstein Elementary. The annual event celebrated people-powered ways to get to school that are good for our health, climate, and communities. The event featured a walking school bus, crafts, snacks, activities, and a speaking program with the school principal, Mayor London Breed, transportation officials, and safe walking advocates. October also celebrated National Pedestrian Safety Month, which was a time to raise awareness and promote safety for pedestrians. The Transportation Authority funds many pedestrian safety programs each year through the voter-approved Prop L sales tax, Prop AA vehicle registration fee, and Prop D ridehail fee programs.

The Transportation Authority supports the SFMTA’s School Walk Audit Program, which conducts walk audits at up to ten K-12 schools annually to identify opportunities to improve safe walking. Review a draft interactive map of schools that have received walk audits to date. View 15 completed walk audit reports and the recommendations to improve pedestrian safety at each site.

The Transportation Authority also supports the Safe Routes to School program which provides resources, organizational support, skill-building events, and activities that support walking, rolling, carpooling, and taking transit to school, including walking and rolling school buses.

To aid all travelers, we help fund the Vision Zero Quick-Build Program which implements reversible, adjustable traffic safety improvements, such as roadway and curb paint, traffic delineators, signs, traffic signal timing updates, transit boarding islands, and parking and loading changes. These projects are focused on safety improvements to the Vision Zero High Injury Network, the 12% of streets accounting for 68% of the City’s severe and fatal traffic injuries.