14 Mission Rapid Project

PROJECT BENEFITS SINCE THE ROLLOUT:

Safer roadway:

• Reduced Muni collisions by 85 percent. There were only seven Muni related collisions in the project corridor since March 27. During the same period last year, there were 45 Muni related collisions.
• No change to pedestrian and auto collisions on Mission Street compared to prior to the project. While it is too early to make a conclusion, there has been no improvement or worsening of collisions on Mission Street.
• 81 percent of people surveyed post-implementation who regularly walk or take transit to the Mission stated they feel safer or just as safe as they did before the transit and roadway changes were made.

Muni Reliability:

• On average, the buses are traveling through the corridor about 2 minutes faster in each direction. However, people are perceiving their trip to be on average 10 min faster since the bus is spending less time delayed and getting more green lights.
• Three additional minutes are expected to be saved with completion of remaining scope, which includes transit-only lanes from 30th to Randall and South Van Ness to Division.
• Muni reliability has improved resulting in fewer gaps and more predictable arrival time

WHY CHANGE MISSION STREET?

Transportation wasn’t working on Mission Street. 

Mission Street's 14R straddling the double yellow due to narrow lanes and double parked vehicles. 

Mission Street is Muni’s second highest ridership corridor, with 65,000 daily riders, 80% of whom are low-income or minority riders. Mission Street was also a designated high injury corridor which means historically pedestrian and auto collisions were more common than compared to other streets in San Francisco. It was also Muni’s highest collision corridor, with an average of three Muni-related collisions a week.

Nearly 85% of people access Mission by bus or by foot, yet the street wasn’t working for them. Muni service was slow and unreliable, and riders commented that the bus stopped too frequently. The travel lanes were also too narrow, which meant Muni vehicles had to straddle two lanes to travel.

Our goals with changing Mission Street were to address these issues to improve Muni service and safety for all.

MUNI FORWARD TREATMENTS:

• Red transit only lanes
• Required right turns 
• Left turn restrictions 
• Stop consolidation 
• Right turn pockets 
• Transit bulbs (awaiting construction)