Car traffic may slow down on some busy San Francisco roads, as the city’s transportation board weighs speed reductions in several areas — including part of Great Highway and a stretch of Fourth Street from downtown to the Caltrain station in SoMa.
Board directors for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted unanimously on Tuesday to lower the speed limit along eight “corridors.” Under the restrictions, drivers on Fourth Street may have to brake between Market and King streets and 16th and Channel streets, where maximum speeds would drop from 25 to 20 miles per hour.
Posted limits would shift from 30 to 20 miles per hour on three other road segments: Third Street from Channel Street to Evans Avenue, Market Street between Castro and Douglas streets, and a strip of Point Lobos Avenue bounded by 42nd Avenue and Great Highway…