141 speed humps and tables are being installed starting today
In July, the SFCTA approved funding for the SFMTA to complete a three-year backlog of about 300 “Residential Traffic Calming Program” projects. The majority of these resident-requested projects will add speed humps and speed tables to neighborhood streets. A shout-out to many of you for requesting these to help tackle dangerous speeding where you live!
Speed humps and tables are one of the most powerful tools available to reinforce safe speeds, plus they’re cost-effective and durable. Speed humps, tables, and cushions are all “vertical speed reducers.” Speed humps are rounded; speed tables have a flat top; and speed cushions are speed humps with wheel cutouts designed to allow large vehicles, such as fire trucks and buses, to pass with minimal slowing or rocking.
Today, the SFMTA begins installing traffic calming devices at 141 locations throughout San Francisco.
Installation is expected to be complete by February 2026, according to the SFMTA. We’ll be tracking progress on the live status map the SFMTA created. With speeding as the #1 cause of severe and fatal crashes in San Francisco, it’s so important that the SFMTA deliver on this commitment.
Our friends at Streets for All SF are looking for people who live on one of the blocks that will get a new speed hump, table, or cushion to host a Telraam traffic monitor.
The monitor will measure speeds and traffic counts before and after the project is installed. If you live on one of the blocks listed here and have a clear view of your street from a 1st- or 2nd-story window, learn more and apply ASAP.
Walk SF believes it’s time for an all-around better approach for adding many more speed humps and speed tables to streets – and more strategically.
We’re so glad Supervisor Melgar included ‘reforming the Residential Traffic Calming Program’ as one of the actions listed in the newly-passed Street Safety Act. The SFMTA’s current program is clearly in need of reform given this major backlog, but also to move past a piecemeal approach.
Boston, a peer Vision Zero city, has overhauled its Residential Traffic Calming program. Boston now has a “by right” approach so speed humps can be installed much faster and more strategically at the neighborhood scale, providing transparency to the community and cost-efficiency. Boston is on track to install 1,500 speed humps in three years with this more equitable approach.
Walk SF will continue to push for the SFMTA to design and deliver a new Residential Traffic Calming Program in 2026 that is equitable, efficient, and at the scale needed.
And there’s another important and related action in the Street Safety Act we’re keeping a close eye on. The SF Fire Department is tasked in the Act with setting street design standards and maximum review periods so safety projects are implemented faster (the SF Fire Department currently has veto power over all vertical speed reducers). Without this, increasing speed humps, tables, and cushions throughout the city will happen far too slowly.
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