See this on Gough?
Traffic signals are getting replaced by slightly larger traffic signals:
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But countdown timers aren’t on the agenda because they cost too much.
And yet we have money for trees and other ornamental-type things.
Oh well.
Can you spot one of the the new pedestrian countdown timers being installed in the Middle Richmond District last week? It arrived all wrapped up.
Plus new road signs too, probably they’ll be more legible or something. But that’s a small thing compared with the installation of new signals.
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Maybe fewer people will die on the mean streets of the Richmond District after we get all this new equipment. (How many peds got mowed over by cars in the Richmond District last year? More than you might think.)
Anyway, the new lights can’t hoit.
Hurray!
Nowadays, it seems that every intersection on the 19th Avenue double fine zone in the Sunset District has either:
1. a dedicated pedestrian signal (with a countdown timer thrown in as a bonus), like this one on Ortega : or
2. evidence of recent work indicating that a pedestrian signal is a coming soon, like this one on Santiago.
Hurray!
Your grandfather’s traffic signal. Click to expand:
“Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
Don’t get out much to this part of the Westside Fog Belt, so this is the first I’ve seen of pedestrian signals at some intersections of 19th Avenue, aka State Highway One.
Of course, this improvement comes a little late for some…
Look for them, tirelessly counting down 24/7, on Park Presidio and the Sunset District part of 19th Avenue.
Hurray, I suppose.
SFMTA likes us! They really like us! That’s the only conclusion one can draw after witnessing the recently installed pedestrian countdown traffic signals on Gough Street.
You see, our Municipal Transportation Agency got some money from the Feds. (Somehow it makes sense for us to send money to Washington so they can send it back to us. Somehow.)
In any event, these new signals should help save lives. (Of course, it’s still an absolute joke that pedestrians on Van Ness don’t have dedicated signals to help them get across four lanes of traffic, but let’s not dwell on that.)
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Hooray.
Well, they’re here – new countdown timer ped signals on Irving and Judah on 9th Avenue. Actually turning them on is the next critical step, but all the heavy lifting has been done. Hurray!
