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The Transportation Authority has launched community outreach for the Inner Sunset Transportation Study, which is exploring ways to improve safety and access within the commercial core of the neighborhood. The project includes the area between Lincoln Avenue and Judah Street from 5th to 12th Avenues, and was requested by Vice Chair and District 7 Board member Myrna Melgar.
In collaboration with SFMTA, the Inner Sunset Transportation Study aims to identify three types of recommendations. This includes:
- Quick-to-implement safety or access improvements like bike parking or color curb modifications
- Initial designs for new project improvements such as new signals or infrastructure to make people walking across the street more visible
- One or two bold concepts could be innovative ideas with community interest and the potential to improve community goals significantly
We will use community feedback and other analysis such as on-site walking observations and transit, vehicle circulation, and collision data to develop traffic safety improvement concepts for the area. Initial analysis has revealed that traffic, double parking, and parking in bus zones can be issues in the study area. For example, transit and vehicle travel analysis shows that 9th Avenue alone carries between 6,000 and 8,000 vehicles and Lincoln Way carries approximately 30,000 vehicles on an average day. This heavy volume can make it harder to travel for people driving, walking, and rolling; and it can impact deliveries and goods circulation.
The Transportation Authority’s Neighborhood Program is a focus of our half-cent transportation sales tax program. Our first round of public outreach for this Neighborhood Program study will take place on November 18 at the SF County Fair Building and include community engagement to gather ideas and capture travel patterns for improving transportation safety within and around the Inner Sunset commercial core neighborhood.
Please join District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar and the Transportation Authority at an in-person Inner Sunset Transportation Study public meeting:
- Date: Monday, November 18
- Time: 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
- Location: San Francisco County Fair Building, 1199 9th Avenue
- For in-language support during the meeting, please contact the project team by Friday, November 15 at InnerSunset@sfcta.org
Participants will hear more about the study and engage in interactive activities to share their views on improvements they feel are needed in the study area. Event attendees will be eligible for a raffle prize. We will launch a project survey soon to gather the public’s suggestions and ideas. Please visit our website for updates, join our mailing list, and learn more about the study here.
A second round of community engagement is expected in the winter of 2025 during which the study team will share initial findings about transportation trends, draft improvements, and potential solutions.
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