They’re still just giving out warnings for lead-foot drivers who are caught by those new speed-detecting cameras, but data from the first month of the program shows that a stunning 44% of all citations citywide were issued to drivers on Fulton Street.
We’ve known since 2023 that San Francisco would be getting speed-monitoring cameras that would take pictures of any vehicle going more than 11 miles per hour over the speed limit, and those drivers would then automatically get a speeding ticket in the mail. The SF Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) started placing these cameras up in March, at the locations detailed below.
Not all of these are up yet, though more than half of them are. And now the SFMTA has released that first month’s data, which shows that the cameras are catching an average of 1,000 speeding drivers every day, according to NBC Bay Area. And mind you, that’s not even with the whole fleet of cameras installed yet.
The shocker here is that the speeding drivers are disproportionately on Fulton Street in the Avenues, the area immediately to the north of Golden Gate Park. According to NBC Bay Area, “about 44% of the warnings they have sent out so far are from a stretch of Fulton Street.” Looking at the SFMTA map, that “stretch” would be on Fulton between Arguello Street and 40th Avenue…