Local leaders this week said a portion of the $35.8 million in grant funding awarded to San Francisco for transit infrastructure and street-safety upgrades will address traffic-spillover concerns stemming from the pending Great Highway closure.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission awarded the funds as part of its Housing Incentive Pool Grants program , to construct new traffic signals on Lincoln Way at 45th Avenue and at La Playa Street. Another traffic light had already been set to be installed at Lincoln and 41st Avenue, and all three are set to replace stop signs.
City officials said the signals are part of an effort to reduce vehicle and transit delays along Lincoln Way and to improve pedestrian and bicycle access to the new Ocean Beach park on a soon-to-be-closed-off portion of Great Highway . Proposition K, the local ballot measure that made the closure possible, passed in November with 54.7% of the vote. The measure’s passage was contentious, as precinct-, neighborhood- and district-level returns showed a majority of voters living west of 19th Avenue voted against the measure .