The Tenderloin could become the city’s first neighborhood to reduce the speed of traffic to 20 mph in order to abate vehicle collisions. The proposed rule changes would reduce the speed limit from 25 to 20 mph, in addition to barring right turns on red in many intersections in the neighborhood, which has been plagued by frequent collisions.
According to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, all of the streets in the Tenderloin are in what the city considers its High Injury Network, which identifies 13 percent of San Francisco’s streets that have 75 percent of its severe traffic collisions and fatalities. The SFMTA’s Board of Directors will vote on approving the speed reduction proposal on March 16, and if the directors pass it, the rule will be implemented in April. Read more via NBC Bay Area.
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