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Why Replace the Potrero Yard?
Why Replace the Potrero Yard? Every day (pre-COVID), 102,000 Muni customers relied on six bus routes (5 Fulton, 5 Fulton Rapid, 6 Haight/Parnassus, 14 Mission, 22 Fillmore, 30 Stockton and 49 Van Ness...
SF Planning and CEQA
View information from the SF Planning Department about the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Project Application to SF Planning Department and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA...
How to Get Paid by the SFMTA / Submitting Invoices
Where do I send invoices? Send invoices to invoices@SFMTA.com The SFMTA utilizes automated software to process PDF documents attached to emails sent to this address. To make this system work, we need...
Continental Crosswalks
What are they? Continental crosswalks are longitudinal stripes designated where to walk across the road. These high visibility markings provide a visual cue for people who drive and bike of where to...
Advanced Limit Lines
What are they? Advanced limit lines are solid white lines extending across all approach lanes to indicate where vehicles must stop in compliance with a stop sign or signal. How do they work? Advanced...
Raised Crosswalks
What are they? Raised crosswalks are roadway crossings where the pavement is raised no higher than the level of the sidewalk, providing a demarcated path of travel for pedestrians from curb to curb...
Painted Safety Zones
What are they? Painted safety zones are painted road areas that wrap around sidewalk corners to make pedestrian crossing intersections more visible to people driving. Painted safety zones are often...
Bulb-outs
What are they? Bulb-outs (also called curb extensions) extend the sidewalk into the parking lane to narrow the roadway and provide additional pedestrian space and visibility at key locations. They can...
Pedestrian Refuges
What are they? Pedestrian refuges are protected areas where people may safely pause or wait while crossing a street. A pedestrian refuge or traffic island is used at intersections, and can also...
Flashing Beacons
What are they? Flashing beacons are safety enhancements added at crossings, typically under the pedestrian sign. When a pedestrian crosses the street, the lights flash, alerting drivers to yield...
Pedestrian Signal Improvements
What are they? SFMTA has implemented a range of improvements to pedestrian signals at intersection, including: pedestrian countdown signals, leading pedestrian intervals, and increased crossing times...
Left Turn Safety
What is it? Left turn safety treatments consist of installing waist-high vertical delineator posts, small rubber speed bumps, and paint to create enhanced center lane lines and painted safety zones to...
Pedestrian Scramble
What are they? A pedestrian scramble, sometimes called a Barnes Dance, is a type of signal treatment at an intersection that stops all traffic and allows people to cross from all corners at the same...
Muni Art 2022 - Tan Sirinumas Artist Page
This page is part of Muni Art 2022. Originally from Thailand, I have been a proud resident of the Tenderloin for the past twelve years making art with and about my growing community in San Francisco...
Muni Art 2022 - Krithika Sengottaiyan Artist Page
This page is part of Muni Art 2022. Hi! I’m Krithika Sengottaiyan a textile designer attending the Academy of Art University. I’ve been living in San Francisco for the past 4 years and I absolutely...
Muni Art 2022 - Richard Louis Perri Artist Page
This page is part of Muni Art 2022. Born in Rockville Centre, NY in 1944. After studying in the Southwest, I came to San Francisco in 1967 with “flowers in my hair.” My main focus is making art as a...
Muni Art 2022 - Steffan Sanguinetti Artist Page
This page is part of Muni Art 2022. Steffan is a fourth generation San Francisco native with a passion for sports, the outdoors, and funky music. He most enjoys making dynamic animations and bold...
Muni Art 2022 - Sebastian Raphael Artist Page
This page is part of Muni Art 2022. Sebastian Raphael has always been fascinated by colors and words. Naturally he was drawn to Fine Art. The interest was cultivated during his childhood years and...
Muni Art 2022 Poem - The Changing Light
This page is part of Muni Art 2022. This poem is intended to be read with indentations on most lines. If you have low vision or other vision issues such that this typography is not accessible to you...
Muni Art 2022 Poem - Recipe for Happiness in Khabarovsk or Anyplace
This page is part of Muni Art 2022. Recipe for Happiness in Khabarovsk or Anyplace One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand café in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups One not...
Muni Art 2022 Poem - Populist Manifesto
This page is part of Muni Art 2022. Populist Manifesto Poets, come out of your closets,Open your windows, open your doors,You have been holed up too longIn your closed worlds. Come down, come downfrom...
Muni Art 2022 Poem - from What is Poetry?
This page is part of Muni Art 2022. from What is Poetry? It is what exists between the lines. A true poem can create a divine still-ness in the world.It is made with the stillness of dreams. It is far...