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Public Works outlines curb ramp backlog and seeks $10M to speed citywide accessibility
Summary
San Francisco Public Works presented the city’s curb ramp inventory, a 9,731-ramp gap to reach full ADA 'saturation,' and requested $10 million for FY 2025–26 to increase annual deliveries toward a 10-year goal.
San Francisco Public Works briefed the Mayor’s Disability Council on the city’s curb ramp inventory and its funding need to achieve full accessibility citywide. Program staff said about 42,000 curb ramps are in the city’s inventory; to reach full ADA “saturation” (remediating fair/poor/no-ramp locations) the city needs to build roughly 9,731 more curb ramps.
Anastasia Haddad, curb ramp program manager for Public Works, told the council the program categorizes ramps as good, fair, poor or no-ramp (buildable). She said Public Works completed varying numbers of ramps in recent years depending on funding and third-party construction, and that inconsistent funding and staffing have limited the program’s output. Public Works reported…
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