San Francisco begins Mission Street and Geneva Avenue safety upgrades
Excelsior’s Mission and Geneva corridor is getting about forty bulb-outs, new signals and crossings after five deaths and at least 323 injuries in seven years.
San Francisco officials marked the start of safety and transit work on Mission Street and Geneva Avenue, a corridor that has seen five deaths and at least 323 injuries in seven years. The project targets a stretch through the Excelsior and Outer Mission where Muni service has crawled on some blocks at under 5 mph.
The work covers Mission Street from Geneva Avenue to the Highway 280 overpass near Trumbull Street, and Geneva Avenue from Prague Street to Mission Street. Planned changes include about forty sidewalk bulb-outs, new pedestrian crossings, upgraded traffic signals, transit bulbs, stop improvements and loading and color curb management changes intended to make the street easier to cross and buses easier to move.
The corridor sits on San Francisco’s Vision Zero High Injury Network, the 13% of city streets where 75% of severe and fatal collisions occur. The Mission Street Excelsior Safety Project was approved by the SFMTA Board in September 2019 after outreach to hundreds of community members, and the final design reflects feasibility, documented crash history and proximity to schools and parks.
Eight Muni lines serving Mission Street and Geneva Avenue had average speeds below 5 mph on some blocks. Earlier planning documents had put the project in the pipeline years ago, with an expected opening by 2025 before later completion.
The San Francisco County Transportation Authority put $2.3 million in half-cent transportation sales tax revenue toward the $20.5 million multi-modal safety effort, while the broader local allocation package for Mission Street and Geneva Avenue was approved in 2021 at more than $7 million.
The project is being delivered as a multi-agency effort led by the SFMTA, with San Francisco Public Works and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission handling final infrastructure work. During the original outreach, residents debated tradeoffs such as whether to keep left-turn lanes or preserve parking, with some worries that removing turns could push traffic onto neighborhood streets like Amazon and Pope and create new bike conflicts. City staff coordinated with the Excelsior Traffic Calming Project to address those concerns.
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