Page Slow Street 2.0 Project

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Thank you for joining the Page Slow Street 2.0 Project Open House! This is an opportunity to learn more and provide feedback on the SFMTA's proposed traffic safety improvements along Page Slow Street between Stanyan Street and Market Street.

This online Open House (also known as a Storymap) will be available from February 14th, 2025 to March 7th, 2025. If you encounter any issues with this web page, please send an email to Grant Brokl at Grant.Brokl@sfmta.com

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Page Street is a key east-west active transportation corridor connecting Golden Gate Park with Market Street and running through Haight-Ashbury, Lower Haight, and Hayes Valley – and supports access to several schools.

Page Street was included in the COVID-19 Emergency Slow Streets Program and officially added to the  Slow Streets Program  in January of 2023. Since 2020, the SFMTA has implemented several improvements along the corridor, including limitations on through-traffic, Slow Street signage, and new pedestrian safety measures.

Today, Page Street is one of San Francisco’s most popular Slow Streets, but we believe it can be even more comfortable and inspiring for all users.

To make Slow Streets work, traffic volumes need to stay low, as do vehicle speeds. The SFMTA uses a data-driven approach to ensure Slow Streets meet the following low-stress criteria:  

• Vehicle volumes of 1,000 per day or less   
• Vehicle speeds of 15 mph or less  

After installing new traffic diverters and Slow Street signage last year, the SFMTA collected traffic data along Page Slow Street to assess how the corridor is performing, and to inform future potential changes. Preliminary takeaways include: 

• Most of Page Street is meeting the Slow Streets Program's speed and volume targets.
• Safety and compliance issues persist at diverters along the corridor and especially at Octavia Boulevard, including drivers travelling the wrong way down the one-way block to access the freeway.
• Purple signs and flex posts are regularly damaged and require constant maintenance.

The SFMTA's Page Slow Street 2.0 Project has prepared concept designs for potential new traffic and streetscape upgrades along the corridor. This round of improvements will investigate upgrading initial low-cost features with more permanent features, including concrete islands, in part to address persistent compliance and maintenance issues.

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The Page Slow Street 2.0 Project is dedicated to improving traffic safety, comfort, and neighborhood placemaking along Page Street between Stanyan Street and Market Street. The project seeks to upgrade previously-installed measures (like roadway striping, plastic posts and signs) with more permanent and effective materials; and to consider other improvement opportunities prioritized by the community.

During early phases of outreach we spoke with hundreds of community members at several in-person events as well as key stakeholders along the corridor including neighborhood associations, schools, churches, and businesses. The following themes summarize the key desires we heard:

• Reduce wrong-way driving on the one-way section of Page between Laguna and Octavia
• Improve driver compliance with diverters
• Add clearer signage for drivers
• Improve safety for school pick-up/drop-off

• Reduce pedestrian and bicycle/scooter conflicts
• Increase pedestrian and bicyclist visibility at intersections
• Add raised crosswalks or speed humps
• Improve existing diverters

The SFMTA's proposed designs are guided by ongoing public outreach and coordination efforts with transit, emergency responders, and other stakeholder groups. Input received during this open house period along with identified engineering constraints will help inform the preferred design option for Page Street.

The SFMTA is proposing a street design on Page Street that includes four main elements:

(1) Purple Sign Upgrades: At select intersections, elevate purple signs onto concrete islands. These concrete islands will require the loss of some parking spots near intersections to increase visibility between road users, reinforce proper driving and parking behaviors, reduce maintenance, and provide opportunities for neighborhood placemaking.

Additional concrete islands may be added along the medians of select cross-streets to help reinforce Slow Street awareness and improve user comfort.

(2) Diverter Upgrades: At existing diverters, install concrete islands to improve driver compliance and reduce maintenance. Includes diverters at Octavia, Laguna, Webster, Divisadero, Masonic, and Stanyan. These concrete islands will not impact parking.

(3) Intersection Adjustments: Adjust vehicle or bicycle paths of travel to improve safety and reinforce proper behaviors. Includes intersections at Octavia Boulevard and at Market Street.

(4) Green Infrastructure: Add sidewalk bulb-outs at Baker Street to improve stormwater management and shorten crossing distances, among other benefits.

While the current design of Page Slow Street has been successful in keeping vehicle speeds low, the 2.0 project may also include speed humps or speed tables near schools to further slow road users. Other improvements may include signage adjustments and lowered speed limits.

The four main elements are shown visually in the map below.

Existing Issues: Drivers regularly damage existing purple signs. Once damaged, purple signs become less effective at slowing vehicles and require continuous maintenance by the SFMTA's sign shop.

Proposed Fixes: Purple signs will be elevated onto new concrete islands to reduce damage from drivers. Concrete islands will help reinforce proper driving behaviors while reducing maintenance.

Existing Issues: Drivers are disobeying turn restrictions at partial and median diverters, damaging flex posts and creating safety concerns for other road users.

Proposed Fixes: Concrete islands will be installed to help reinforce proper driving behaviors while reducing maintenance.

Existing Issues: Drivers are regularly disobeying turn restrictions at Laguna Street and driving the wrong way down the one-way section of Page Street to access Octavia Boulevard, creating safety concerns for other road users. Drivers are also using Octavia Boulevard's local lanes to bypass traffic on the main lanes during times of peak congestion.

Proposed Fixes: Concrete islands will be added to existing diverters at Laguna and Octavia to help reinforce proper driving behaviors while reducing maintenance. Additional turn restrictions and concrete islands will be added to Octavia's local lanes to deter thru-traffic as well as discourage wrong-way driving on Page Street.

Existing Issues: The eastbound bicycle path of travel from Page Street to Market Street crosses streetcar tracks at an angle, making the riding experience less comfortable. Additionally, the intersection lacks a far-side signal to guide eastbound cyclists across Market Street.

Proposed Fixes: The eastbound bicycle path of travel will be adjusted to guide cyclists onto a new two-way bikeway on the north side of Market Street before crossing to the south side during the pedestrian crosswalk phase. This new path of travel will cross streetcar tracks perpendicularly and provide clearer direction across Market Street.

Existing: Baker Street is one of the widest and steepest cross-streets along all of Page Slow Street, creating safety concerns for all road users and especially nearby preschoolers. The Baker intersection has also experienced periodic flooding. The intersection's size and location also make it a great opportunity for greening that  captures and slows stormwater runoff .

Proposed Fixes: New bulb-outs will shorten crosswalks and slow vehicles while providing improved stormwater management, urban habitat, and flood-resilient infrastructure. About 4-6 parking spaces would be repurposed for the new bulb-outs.

Click the link below to provide input on the proposed designs.

Thank you for visiting the virtual open house!

Other questions, comments, or concerns not answered here? View our project webpage or email Grant Brokl at Grant.Brokl@sfmta.com with your feedback.