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About the AP Giannini Middle School and Sunset Elementary School Safe Routes to School Project

This project was made possible in part by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority through a grant of Proposition K Local Transportation Sales Tax funds.

***UPDATE***

We will be having an open house for this project from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M. on Monday, April 16, 2012, at the Ortega Branch of the Public Library (Ortega Street at 39th Avenue). There will also be a public hearing regarding this project at 10:00 A.M. on Friday, April 27, 2012 at City Hall in Room 416.

Sunset Elementary School SunsetElementarySchool

AP Giannini Middle School

Project Summary

In 2011, Caltrans awarded the Outer Sunset Safe Routes to School Project to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) Sustainable Streets Division to improve safety for children, parents and community members walking and biking to Sunset Elementary School and AP Giannini Middle School. The project seeks to address community concerns for traffic safety which include:

Drivers performing abrupt midblock U-turns
The long crossing distances for people walking across Ortega Street
Drivers failing to yield to pedestrians
High traffic speeds

This Safe Routes to School Project proposes the following traffic safety improvements to the area:

Curb bulb-outs at the intersection of 37th Avenue and Ortega Street
Narrowed lanes along Ortega Street between 37th and 41st Avenues. To narrow the lanes, the plan employs a combination of the following devices:
- Pedestrian refuge islands on the south side (school side) of the street at the intersections of Ortega Street and 38th, 39th, 40th, 41st Avenues
- Bicycle lanes in both directions from 20th Avenue to Lower Great Highway

Schematic of Ortega Street Redesign (pdf)

Community Outreach Events (Past and Upcoming)

Sunset Elementary School PTA Meeting – April 16, 2011
Sunset Elementary School’s Spring Carnival – April 30, 2011
AP Giannini Middle School PTA Meeting – May 19, 2011
Community Meeting at the West Sunset Rec Connect Center – July 28, 2011
AP Giannini Middle School PTA Meeting – September 15, 2011
Sunset Elementary School PTA Meeting – September 25, 2011
Open House at the Ortega Branch of the Public Library – April 16, 2012 (6:30-8:30)
Public Hearing at City Hall Room 416 – April 27, 2012 (10:00 A.M.)

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David Valle-Schwenk

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Sustainable Streets - Livable Streets Subdivision
One South Van Ness Avenue - 7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103-5417
Phone: 701.4565
E-mail: david.valle-schwenk@sfmta.com

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