SFMTA is quietly preparing to remove the “neck down” safety treatment at Kirkham and 9th in the Inner Sunset. A tipster pointed out the following item on Friday’s agenda for SFMTA’s regularly scheduled engineering committee hearing: “Proposal to install the above traffic calming devices to replace [emphasis added] the midblock neck down on Kirkham Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.”
The agency is planning to install a “three-lump speed cushion” instead.
District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar’s office emailed Streetsblog the following in response to questions about the neck down:…