The proposed improvements to the intersection at Park Presidio and Geary
You may have noticed some work beginning at the intersection of Park Presidio/Highway 1 and Geary Boulevard. It’s the beginning of the Geary at Park Presidio Improvements Project from the SFMTA, designed to “provide a safer and more inviting environment for Muni passengers, pedestrians, runners and vehicular traffic”.
The intersection is a hub in the Richmond District, serving MUNI riders, Golden Gate Transit riders, and 6 lanes of vehicle traffic in all directions. In spring 2017, the SFMTA posted a 5 question survey asking for feedback about conditions and preferences for the intersection. However, they only received 237 responses.
Overall, respondents were underwhelmed with the current state of the intersection. When asked what they like about the existing intersection, 26% said “Nothing”. 47% indicated the intersection was “dangerous” or “hard to cross street” as their dislikes.
The $300,000 improvement project includes new sidewalks, gateway planting, seating walls, ADA curb ramps, pedestrian lighting, and decorative crosswalks at the intersection.
Construction begins this month and is expected to last through September. Work hours are Monday through Friday, 7am to 3pm, with some minimal impact work at night. According to the SFMTA, traffic may be temporarily delayed at times, but no complete road closures will be necessary.
For more information on the project, visit the website.
Sarah B.
Will be nice to clean that up a bit.
Also looks like the Benioff/Presidio Middle work kicked off this week. They’ve been ripping up the asphalt since Monday or Tuesday.
i was thinking about writing Sup Fewer about that intersection, and frankly all the median strips along Geary. Why does the city spend so much money planting the strips and then provides no plan for maintaining them. They are all weed choked and full of garbage. Every couple of months some work furlough types weed whack and then it’s back to business as usual. I would assume the improvements at Geary and PP will suffer the same fate. Ugh!
They should have overhead bridges for cross walks, they use those in heavy traffice area’s. Lowers the risk of pedistrian accidents.
Yes the islands along Geary are never maintained. They should Place Palm Trees along Geary as they did in the Castro and along Market st. Easier to maintain and looks great!
they arent going to do anything to maintain geary because they want to tear the whole thing up for the brt…you guys didnt get the memo
and this is just another make work project, which fewer can do nothing about because she is another do nothing sup
The medians on Geary are always full of garbage. The Supes make a big show of what improvements they made and then never clean them up. How can you be a Supe riding or driving down Geary and look at the trash in those medians and hold your head up high and say you are representing the neighborhood? We are being led by incompetent people.
I noticed the other day that there were a few blocks in the Sunset along 19th Avenue median where the “low maintenance” and almost indestructable cactus-type plants had mostly died off. Let’s just give up and avoid the pretentions, just put concrete and asphalt everywhere.
The medians on Geary in our area are all going to be ripped out as part of the Geary BRT so the question is moot. What I find interesting is that the new transit stop for Geary will be across from the 76 station in the middle of the street.
My 30 years of observations, not backed by data, is that more people access the Geary bus from the West than from the East. If that assumption is correct, then we will have a lot more people crossing PP Blvd going to and from that stop.
Since the more “interface” there is between pedestrians and cars making right turns the more people get hit, I do not understand why the MTA is placing the stop on the East Side. I would bet a lot that they did not model the flow in that intersection and look at the number of people going-coming to see if they are going to increase the pedestrian-car interface more or not.
As we all know there is a lot of car that make right turns off of Geary to PP Blvd. The MTA has likely engineered a problem by not looking at the pedestrian flow origin – destination pairs and seeing how much traffic is making right turns. Sometimes I wonder why I pay their salaries and pension for such work…
How about this for an idea: pave Geary and Park Presidio!
Those roads are a crumbling mess.
Well, most roads in SF are a crumbling mess.