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This project will implement recommendations from the Visitacion Valley and Portola Community Based Transportation Plan. Specific improvements may include speed humps/cushions, lighting, crosswalk flashing beacons, new and/or raised crosswalks, pedestrian bulbouts, new bikeways, and Muni stop improvements. This project will focus specifically on improvements in Visitacion Valley.

The Valencia Long-Term Bikeway Study will identify long-term concepts for safety and streetscape improvements on the Valencia Street corridor between Market Street and Cesar Chavez. The project will combine technical analysis, stakeholder input, and concept design for pilot block tests to study several community-generated concepts, including a curbside two-way protected bikeway, a pedestrianized Valencia Street, or that may result in converting the corridor to a one-way street or restricting through-traffic on the corridor.

The District 6 Traffic Calming and Sideshow Deterrence project will design and install traffic calming devices and sideshow deterrence measures to improve safety at eleven locations in District 6 identified by the Commissioner's office and its constituents.

Recognition demonstrates the agency's excellent transparency and stewardship of public funds.

In late October, the Transportation Authority joined the Self Help Counties Coalition to host the 34th Annual Focus on the Future Conference which brough together leaders from across California to share recent innovations and explore future directions in transportation.

The Transportation Authority has launched fall outreach events for the Brotherhood Way Safety and Circulation Plan and is exploring ways to help improve safety, circulation, and connectivity for people walking, driving, and biking through the Brotherhood Way and Alemany Boulevard corridors.

At the October 24 Transportation Authority Board meeting, staff from the Transportation Authority, SFMTA, and San Francisco Fire Department, presented on the recent on-street experience and current regulatory landscape of driverless AVs in San Francisco. Carnegie Mellon Professor Philip Koopman also provided expert perspectives on autonomous vehicle safety and policy issues.

During the October 24 Transportation Authority Board, board members approved over $13 million in funding from San Francisco’s Prop L half-cent sales tax for transportation to support several projects.