The Cayuga Avenue Slow Street extends 1.7 miles through the Cayuga Terrace, Excelsior, and Mission Terrace Neighborhoods, from Rousseau Street to Naglee Avenue. It’s home to many families and functions as an important community connection to Cayuga Playground and Balboa High School. Cayuga Avenue was identified as a bicycle route and candidate for traffic calming in the 2019 Excelsior Neighborhood Traffic Calming Project. Cayuga Avenue was approved for inclusion in the Slow Streets Program by the SFMTA Board on December 6, 2022.
Learn more about the Slow Streets Program
Cayuga Area Upgrades
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is teaming up with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC). This collaboration will add traffic calming and green infrastructure at select intersections along Cayuga Slow Street and nearby. This project aims to make the corridor and its connections safer, greener, and more welcoming. Over the next several months, city staff will engage with the community to shape future changes.
Project History
Plans to make active transportation improvements to Cayuga Avenue date back to 2019. Through the Excelsior Neighborhood Traffic Calming Project, the community identified a need for traffic calming materials such as speed humps on Cayuga Avenue in front of Balboa High school. After the COVID-19 response Slow Streets Program was launched in 2020, Cayuga Avenue was identified as a potential Slow Street, but material shortages and logistical challenges prevented implementation at that time. Cayuga Avenue was later approved for inclusion in the Slow Streets Program by the SFMTA Board on December 6, 2022.
Current Cayuga Avenue Slow Street Design
The current design for the Cayuga Avenue Slow Street was approved following the March 17, 2023 Public Hearing. The design includes:
- Slow Streets delineator signs at select intersections
- Slow Streets pavement markings
- Slow Streets identification signs on Cayuga Avenue and select cross streets
- A median diverter at Cayuga Avenue and Geneva Avenue
- New marked crosswalks
- Traffic calming elements, such as speed cushions
Cayuga Avenue Slow Street Evaluation
The SFMTA Project team collects data to assess how each Slow Street is performing against the Slow Streets Program targets:
- Vehicle speeds at or below 15 mph
- Vehicle volumes less than 1,000 per day
After installing the first wave of Slow Streets improvements in 2023, the SFMTA has collected traffic data along Cayuga Avenue Slow Street to assess how the corridor is performing and to inform future potential changes. See the latest evaluation in the “Related Reports & Documents” section on the right side of this webpage.
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