We’re working across the city to build streets that are safer for people walking, biking, rolling and driving.
This week’s SFMTA Board of Directors Meeting featured the latest data on our street safety work.
Our teams have made a range of upgrades across the city to improve safety for people walking, biking and driving. This work directly advances Mayor Lurie’s new Street Safety executive directive.
Over the last few months, we have also taken many steps to support local businesses and citywide events.
Highlights include:
- Making upgrades at 925 intersections to increase safety on the High Injury Network
- Replacing 479 stop signs to support people walking, biking and driving on city streets
- Engaging dozens of merchants to better meet their parking needs
- Installing 3,800 temporary signs to help Super Bowl LX festivities run smoothly
As we carry out this work, transparency is our top priority. That’s why we want to keep you informed about the streets data we shared at Tuesday’s meeting. Learn about the changes we made and the impact we’re seeing across the city.
Stop signs, crosswalks, pedestrian zones – learn about our recent street safety investments.
Improving safety for people walking, rolling and driving
Hundreds of upgrades to increase safety citywide
Our sign, signal and paint shops have been hard at work. From October through December of 2025, crews made hundreds of upgrades to improve safety for people walking, rolling and driving.
They include:
- 479 stop signs replaced
- 441 daylighting red zones installed
- 88 speed humps placed across the city
- 33 continental crosswalks created
- 11 pedestrian safety zones established
Limit lines like this one ahead of crosswalks create more space between people walking and people driving.
Improvements completed across High Injury Network
Our Streets team also completed safety upgrades at every intersection along the High Injury Network. The current High Injury Network reflects the 12% of city streets where 68% of serious or fatal accidents occur.
These improvements covered 925 intersections and include:
- Upgrading intersections to make crosswalks more visible for people walking and driving
- Changing traffic signals to give people walking a head start at intersections
- Upgrading signal lenses to make traffic lights easier to see for people driving
- Installing “limit lines” at intersections to create more distance between people walking and driving
- Adding infrastructure where cars turn to improve safety for people walking
Fewer injury crashes on major corridors
These investments are already delivering results for people who walk, bike or drive in San Francisco.
- Geneva Avenue from Mission to Carter streets: Our teams completed safety upgrades and set up automated speed enforcement. In 2025, these steps helped contribute to the lowest number of injury crashes recorded on the corridor in more than a decade.
- Fulton Street from Arguello Boulevard to Great Highway: A range of safety improvements we introduced helped reduce injury crashes by 53% compared to 2014 levels.
- Franklin Street from California to Bay streets: Our teams made signal timing changes, street safety upgrades and introduced automated speed enforcement. Injury crashes on this stretch of Franklin Street dropped by half compared to 2014.
We also recently released an annual report combining dozens of individual project evaluations. Our 2024 Safe Streets Evaluation Program report shows, on average across evaluated treatments:
- Pedestrian-vehicle close calls down 49%
- Pedestrian collisions down 32%
- Bike collisions down 15%
- Bike ridership up 31%
- Vehicle travel times stayed stable
Giving students information at a recent Safe Routes to School event this year.
Supporting students, teachers and caregivers
Our Safe Routes to School Program continues to support local communities. It combines street design, education and community engagement to make school travel safer.
During the current school year:
- School-related collisions have declined 29 percent compared to 2018.
- More than 19,000 students, parents, and community members participated in education and encouragement programs.
- More than half of San Francisco Unified School District students now walk, bike, take transit or carpool to school.
Looking out for locals and visitors at major events
At the start of the year, our Streets Division played a critical role supporting Super Bowl LX festivities. During the week of Super Bowl events, SFMTA staff:
- Supported approximately 1.3 million visitors
- Installed 3,800 temporary signs across 450 locations
- Deployed around 200 parking enforcement officers each day
- Issued 20 special event permits
Our efforts helped ensure city streets remain safe, organized and accessible during the citywide celebration. Together, we helped to remind visitors from around the world that San Francisco remains a world-class destination.
Noe Valley is one neighborhood where we have worked with dozens of merchants to support their parking needs.
Helping small businesses thrive
Our teams are also strengthening partnerships with local businesses through a new Merchant Walk-Through Program. We are working directly with neighborhood merchants to ensure curb uses reflect their needs.
- Noe Valley: We worked with 38 merchants to improve curb access. Based on merchant feedback, we added 10 general metered spaces and made 3 loading zone changes. We also converted 12 short-term (green) spaces to general metered parking.
- Castro: We partnered with more than 60 merchants to relocate 5 commercial loading zones closer to businesses and add 3 new loading zones. We also converted 18 short-term and motorcycle spaces to general metered parking.
- Union Square: We collaborated with the Union Square Alliance and loading zone sponsors to add 6 general metered parking spaces. More curb improvements are planned based on our winter and spring outreach.
Looking ahead, our agency is also launching two new mobile parking payment apps —ParkMobile and HotSpot — in spring 2026. They will give people driving more reliable and convenient options to pay for metered parking. All of this work helps our small businesses – the heart of our city – thrive.
Stay informed about our street safety work
We encourage you to stay in the loop about the work we are doing to improve street safety. Here is the calendar for SFMTA public meetings, including our Board of Directors Meetings. We also recommend signing up for project updates for upgrades happening near your job or home.