Learn about the priority projects that will help us create safer streets for communities across the city.
Community feedback is critical to the work we do creating safer streets.
That's why we want to keep you informed about the priority locations we are announcing for safety and community benefit quick-build projects. These projects are part of our efforts to advance the city's Street Safety Initiative, announced by Mayor Daniel Lurie in 2025. The Initiative calls on city agencies to reduce serious crashes by investing in proven safety measures and strengthening collaboration.
Learn about our priority projects and consider joining a public hearing on May 6 where the Vision Zero Committee will discuss them.
Why these locations and why now
The aim is to identify where investments can have the biggest effects. This helps our limited resources go further. We use a quick-build approach, which means we can make safety improvements faster using low-cost materials.
Many of these locations are on the newly updated High Injury Network — the 13% of streets where 74% of serious injuries occur. That's where our work can have the greatest impact.
But the High Injury Network data is only part of the picture.
We also focus on safety for children and seniors, who are most at risk of serious injuries from traffic. That means:
- Safer school routes
- Better access to parks
- Connections to the places people rely on every day
Projects respond to community requests, too, such as supporting revitalization along San Francisco's waterfront.
We also connect with our city partners as we plan important safety improvements. By working together, we can reduce disruption, cut delays and better use public resources.
Priority safety and community-benefit projects: What's coming
Creating safer routes to schools is one of our top priorities in street safety.
Projects are at different stages. Some have already gone through community review and design. Others are beginning the process to ensure the approach fits community and corridor needs. All projects aim to make everyday trips safer and easier for everyone, whether you're walking, biking, driving or taking transit.
Students and families get safer routes to school
- Mission Bay Boulevard: Created under the SFCTA's Mission Bay School Access Plan. Neighbors helped spot barriers to getting kids to school safely. Construction started after public hearing approval in March 2026.
- Status: In construction. We've already added school zone signs and yellow crosswalks. Then, this summer, we'll install stop signs, speed tables and bike lane upgrades. All this will be ready before the 2026–2027 school year starts.
Safer streets that support Fisherman's Wharf and waterfront revitalization
- Jefferson Street and Northern Embarcadero: These projects will improve streets in the Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39 area. They build on the Beach Street Quick-Build, the Jefferson Streetscape Project and the Central Embarcadero Safety Project. Investment at these locations address community safety concerns on High Injury Network streets. They also respond to business requests for a safer and more inviting waterfront. The projects will fill gaps in the walking and biking network, offering more ways to travel between major landmarks.
- Status: Early outreach
Safer crossings, calmer streets and safer neighborhood destinations
- Brotherhood Way and Alemany Boulevard: One of the city's most complex intersections, where multiple streets meet. The complexity leads to confusion, illegal turns and safety risks for everyone using the intersection. Proposed improvements include rectangular flashing beacons, traffic calming, a pedestrian safety zone and striping adjustments.
- Status: Ongoing outreach, including April 2026 community meetings. Public hearing planned for May 22.
- Innes Avenue: This project will calm traffic, improve visibility for people walking and strengthen connections to India Basin Waterfront Park. The corridor has seen ongoing speeding concerns and recent injury collisions. This project directly addresses both, in coordination with SF Recreation and Parks.
- Status: Early outreach with SF Recreation and Parks
Making high-injury streets safer and more predictable for all ways of traveling
- Cesar Chavez Street: We identified this project through injury data and community input. Proposed improvements include safer pedestrian crossings, a protected bikeway and signal changes to reduce conflicts between people walking, biking and driving.
- Status: Ongoing outreach
- Point Lobos Avenue and Bosworth Street and Monterey Boulevard Connections: These locations are in the earliest stages of planning. Community listening sessions are just beginning, and what we hear will shape how these projects move forward.
- Status: Planning early outreach
Building on a bigger safety strategy
Students join us to "daylight” a curb, making a crosswalk clear of parked vehicles. This improves visibility for everyone.
Including today's projects and work already completed, safety improvements to the new High Injury Network already cover:
- 22 miles of safety and community benefit quick-builds
- 12 miles of Muni Forward transit and safety improvements
- 470 signal retiming projects to manage speeds
- Daylighting at close to 60% of city intersections, including more than 2,300 around schools
Today's projects are part of the agency's recently approved five-year capital plan for street safety and transit reliability. Together, they will deliver safety investments across 62% of the High Injury Network.
We are planning quick-build safety treatments because they are fast, cost-effective and proven. Locations that have these improvements in place have seen pedestrian collisions drop by more than 30% on average.
Speed safety cameras are part of our safety strategy, too. Across camera locations, the share of drivers who exceed the speed limit by 10 mph or more has decreased by nearly 80% since installation.
What happens next
Community input and public hearings will continue to shape how each project moves forward. We will report regular updates at SFMTA board meetings, and at the Vision Zero committee. You can also sign up for updates for individual projects by visiting each existing project page. These updates will cover when outreach and public hearings are happening next.
For now, we welcome you to join the Vision Zero Committee’s public hearing on May 6.
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