SFMTA board approves Oak Street quick‑build separated bikeway and safety upgrades; removes limited parking

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board voted unanimously April 1 to approve the Oak Street quick-build project, a redesign of Oak Street between Stanyan and Baker that will add an eastbound Class 4 separated bikeway, pedestrian safety measures, daylighting at key intersections and short protected connections to the Panhandle path.

Mark Drager, the SFMTA project manager for Oak Street, told the board the corridor is on the city's High Injury Network and has seen a rise in collisions while Fell Street — a parallel, opposite-direction protected lane implemented in 2020 — showed a 38% reduction in collisions and a 50% reduction in pedestrian-involved collisions over the same period. The Oak proposal would convert one of four travel lanes on much of the corridor into a bikeway separated from traffic by floating parking and concrete islands at key intersections. Drager told…