SFMTA Hearing Friday May 13, 10 am
City Hall, Room 416, Hearing Room 4
If you are a stakeholder of Masonic Avenue, allow your voice to be heard as SFMTA considers the Boulevard proposal. If you are unable to appear in person on May 13, your comments can also be emailed; please emphasize how you use Masonic - as a resident, pedestrian, cyclist, driver or Muni rider - and voice your support for the proposal.
Fix Masonic is a community coalition of San Francisco residents living on and around Masonic Avenue.We have petitioned and continue to work to make Masonic Avenue safer and to significantly raise quality of life along this long-neglected arterial connector between the Haight-Ashbury and Lower Pacific Heights. The goal is to dramatically improve this corridor on behalf of those who live, walk, bike, ride the bus, and drive on it. We'll know we've succeeded when it is obvious to any driver, rider or pedestrian that Masonic Avenue is a calm and safe and even pleasant place to be.
As a direct result of our efforts, the San Francisco Metropolitan Traffic Authority (SFMTA) has already installed a bicycles-only signal at Fell and Masonic, and lowered the speed limit along the corridor to 25 MPH (with the addition of radar signs). In support of these changes and many more required to transform this street, SFMTA is now proposing redesigns to be implemented over the next two to three years, with the additional possibility of an interim solution to more immediately improve safety.
Masonic Avenue represents unique challenges - many of them. Due to the current design of the street, many users do not feel safe. Pedestrians are threatened by wide intersections, double right turn lanes, and high speed curb lanes at commute hours. There are no bike facilities on Masonic, and speeding and red light running are common.
If there were easy answers, this site would have no reason to exist. We seek extraordinary creative resources to make Masonic a place that people - be they residents, pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders, shoppers or drivers - want to be.
People - hundreds of us - live on Masonic Avenue, and tens of thousands more live within walking or cycling distance.
The intersection of Fell and Turk is among the three most dangerous in the city for red light running according to SFMTA.
Frequent injury accidents involving motorists and pedestrians or cyclists occur at the Masonic Pandhandle crossing (Fell/Masonic and Oak/Masonic)
Ten schools, spanning preschool to university, are located on or near the Masonic corridor.
It is the arterial road nearest the geographical center of the city, and no alternate north/south route parallels it for nearly a quarter mile in either direction.
It is a vital route for Muni line 43 (the "43 Masonic"), Bicycle Route 55, and local pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
It serves neighbors, students and shoppers at popular local businesses includeing Trader Joe's, Albertson's, and Best Buy.
SOME GOALS:
Average rate of travel appropriate for a residential street
Safer crossings at wide intersections including Geary and Fell
Bike lanes on Masonic as part of the city-wide bicycle netowrk
Beautification and greening of the corridor
If you are a stakeholder of Masonic Avenue, allow your voice to be heard as SFMTA considers the Boulevard proposal. If you are unable to appear in person on May 13, your comments can also be emailed; please emphasize how you use Masonic - as a resident, pedestrian, cyclist, driver or Muni rider - and voice your support for the proposal.
Fix Masonic is a community coalition of San Francisco residents living on and around Masonic Avenue.We have petitioned and continue to work to make Masonic Avenue safer and to significantly raise quality of life along this long-neglected arterial connector between the Haight-Ashbury and Lower Pacific Heights. The goal is to dramatically improve this corridor on behalf of those who live, walk, bike, ride the bus, and drive on it. We'll know we've succeeded when it is obvious to any driver, rider or pedestrian that Masonic Avenue is a calm and safe and even pleasant place to be.
As a direct result of our efforts, the San Francisco Metropolitan Traffic Authority (SFMTA) has already installed a bicycles-only signal at Fell and Masonic, and lowered the speed limit along the corridor to 25 MPH (with the addition of radar signs). In support of these changes and many more required to transform this street, SFMTA is now proposing redesigns to be implemented over the next two to three years, with the additional possibility of an interim solution to more immediately improve safety.
Masonic Avenue represents unique challenges - many of them. Due to the current design of the street, many users do not feel safe. Pedestrians are threatened by wide intersections, double right turn lanes, and high speed curb lanes at commute hours. There are no bike facilities on Masonic, and speeding and red light running are common.
If there were easy answers, this site would have no reason to exist. We seek extraordinary creative resources to make Masonic a place that people - be they residents, pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders, shoppers or drivers - want to be.
SOME GOALS: