The 13th Street Safety Project will improve safety and comfort for all who travel on the 13th Street corridor between Folsom Street and Valencia Street and will reduce the number of conflicts between those who walk, bike and drive along this corridor. Transportation safety improvements to be implemented on 13th Street includes sidewalk extensions to increase pedestrian visibility and shorten crossings, signal timing and hardware upgrades to help control and organize traffic flow, protected bike lanes to physically separate people riding bikes from people driving, and parking and loading changes to maximize use of curb space.

 

This project is a part of the San Francisco’s High-Injury Network - the 12 percent of streets that account for 68 percent of severe and fatal traffic collisions. Between 2018 and 2022, 100 collisions occurred in the project area and resulted in injury. Over one-third of reported collisions involved bicyclists or pedestrians, and the most common collision factors were red signal violations, high speeds, and unsafe left turns. This makes 13th Street one of the corridors with the highest numbers of injury collisions.  

 

This project will improve the safety of multimodal travel along the corridor and will connect San Francisco’s bicycle network with direct access to Folsom Street, Valencia Street, and Division Street corridors.