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SFCTA allocates $6.6M in Prop L and $1.1M in Prop AA for signals, Broadway tunnel safety and Japantown improvements
Summary
The board approved $6,600,000 in Prop L funds and $1,100,000 in Prop AA funds for four projects: traffic signal controller replacements, traffic signal upgrades at 17 intersections, West Broadway tunnel safety improvements, and the Japantown Buchanan Mall project.
The San Francisco County Transportation Authority on Oct. 7 approved allocating $6,600,000 in Prop L funds and $1,100,000 in Prop AA vehicle-registration-fee funds to four city transportation requests.
Rachel Seberg of SFCTA presented the requests: $1,000,000 in Prop L to replace about 98 traffic signal controllers with a known firewall vulnerability; $5,300,000 in Prop L to fund SFMTA’s Traffic Signal Upgrade Contract 35 at 17 intersections, including new pedestrian signals and accessible pedestrian signals; $261,000 in Prop L neighborhood transportation program funds for the West Broadway tunnel safety project to address vehicle speeds and pedestrian concerns near a playground and preschool; and $1,100,000 in Prop AA to implement the Japantown Buchanan Mall improvements on Buchanan Street between Post and Sutter.
Seberg said the signal-controller replacement addresses a 2018-identified vulnerability that contributed to signal outages and that prior replacements in 2024–25 substituted 252 controllers using Prop B and other SFMTA funds. The traffic-signal upgrades will leverage $12.3 million in general-obligation bond funds and include higher-visibility signal lenses and left-turn signals; eight of the intersections are on the Vision Zero high-injury network, Seberg said.
The Japantown request requires an amendment to the Prop AA five-year project list to reprogram $700,000 in savings from an Oakdale Lighting Improvements Phase 1 project; that $700,000 combined with $400,000 already programmed yields the requested $1.1 million, Seberg said.
Vice Chair Danny Sauter, who requested the West Broadway project, praised outreach in that neighborhood and called the project likely to have a significant safety impact. "It's a high-speed area where the cars come out of the tunnel and then are greeted by a playground and a preschool," Sauter said.
Commissioner Sauter moved to approve the allocations; the motion was seconded and approved by the board under the same-roll-call approach used earlier in the meeting. Project managers from SFMTA and Public Works were available to answer questions during the presentation.
