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As NBC Bay Area reports, the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency will begin honoring its blacklog of speed-reduction requests next week as part of its popular Residential Traffic Calming Program, which was listed as a priority in the recently signed Street Safety Act, per Walk San Francisco. Launched in 2001, the program collects feedback from communities where speeding is a concern. Per the Frisc, the queue for the program currently consists of hundreds of applications dating back to 2021.

Overall, our data shows that there is a 72% reduction, so people are changing their behavior," said Wise.

Christopher White, the current head of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, got his start in advocacy 20 years ago when an inattentive driver turned left in front of him on Arguello, sending him careening into the windshield. Since then, Arguello has remained on San Francisco's high-injury network. A teenager was badly injured there in 2022. Cyclist Ethan Boyes was killed on Arguello by a drunk driver in 2023.

An SFMTA employee is being investigated for allegedly misrepresenting himself as an IT manager to receive freebies from vendors, violating 20 city ethics rules.

Starting August 5, San Francisco will start issuing fines for speeding caught by 33 newly installed speed-monitoring cameras, which were previously issuing warnings.

"This is part of an evolving Market Street," she told the board members. "It's important as an agency that we continue to try new things and innovate."