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Safer Market Street March 6, 2015 Engineering Public Hearing Safer Market Street: Vision Zero in Action Vision Zero: The Citys p olicy Auto vs. Bike/Ped commitment to eliminate all Collisions traffic fatalities by 2024 100% Market

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Safer Market Street

March 6, 2015 Engineering Public Hearing

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Safer Market Street: Vision Zero in Action

Vision Zero: The City’s policy commitment to eliminate all traffic fatalities by 2024

  • Market Street is a high-injury

corridor

– 4 of the top 20 intersections for pedestrian injury collisions – Top 2 intersections for bicycle injury collisions – High rate of collisions caused by through movements

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Market Mission

Auto vs. Bike/Ped Collisions

Automobile : Other Automobile : Through Movement

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Collision Analysis

Between 8th to 3rd streets (2012-2013)

  • 173 injury collisions
  • 9 Severe Injury Collisions
  • 2 Fatal Injury Collisions (Car

+ Pedestrian) Over 50% of collisions involve a car and people walking or biking

  • 82% involve a car
  • 36% involve people walking
  • 43% involve people biking
  • 8% involve Muni
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Proposed Project

To include:

  • Turn restrictions onto

Market

  • Extension of transit only

lanes (bus & taxi)

  • New white, blue, and

yellow loading zones

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  • Private vehicles generally not allowed to turn
  • nto Market between 3rd and 8th Streets
  • Buses, taxis, paratransit and commercial and

emergency vehicles would be exempt

Proposed Conditions: Turn Restrictions

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Proposed Conditions: Transit Only Lanes

  • Transit-only lanes would be extended to

reduce lane changes

  • May also improve transit travel times and

reliability

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Proposed Conditions: Loading Zones

  • 8 new white passenger loading zones
  • 4 new blue disabled parking zones
  • 1 new commercial loading zone

* Existing commercial loading is available on all cross streets

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Effects on Traffic

  • 30-50% reduction in vehicles on Market

Street

  • 5-10% increase on the rest of the network
  • Project in coordination with:

– 30 Stockton Muni Forward – Geary BRT – Annie Street Plaza Pilot

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Community Outreach

  • Conducted Intercept Survey Summer 2014
  • 2 Community Workshops (September, November)
  • Mailed out flyers for workshops and hearing to

~8,700 recipients

  • Over a dozen individual phone calls or in-person

meetings with concerned stakeholders

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Current Status and Next Steps

  • Fall 2014: two rounds of
  • utreach
  • March 2015: Public

Hearing

  • April/ May 2015:

Completion of environmental review, SFMTA Board

  • Spring/summer 2015:

Implementation

  • Winter 2015/2016:

Completion