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(Avatar photo) by (https://thefrisc.com/author/kristi-coale/) Kristi Coale March 3, 2025 March 3, 2025 Share this: (https://thefrisc.com/sf-speed-cameras-are-here-a-cheaper-way-to-slow-drivers-is-stuck-in-gridlock/?share=bluesky&nb=1) (Click to share on Bluesky) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) (https://thefrisc.com/sf-speed-cameras-are-here-a-cheaper-way-to-slow-drivers-is-stuck-in-gridlock/?share=threads&nb=1) (Click to share on Threads) Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) (mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20San%20Francisco%20Speed%20Cameras%20Are%20Here%2C%20But%20a%20Cheaper%20Way%20to%20Slow%20Drivers%20Is%20Stuck%20In%20Gridlock&body=https%3A%2F%2Fthefrisc.com%2Fsf-speed-cameras-are-here-a-cheaper-way-to-slow-drivers-is-stuck-in-gridlock%2F&share=email&nb=1) (Click to email a link to a friend) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) (https://thefrisc.com/sf-speed-cameras-are-here-a-cheaper-way-to-slow-drivers-is-stuck-in-gridlock/?share=x&nb=1) (Click to share on X) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) (https://thefrisc.com/sf-speed-cameras-are-here-a-cheaper-way-to-slow-drivers-is-stuck-in-gridlock/?share=facebook&nb=1) (Click to share on Facebook) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) (https://thefrisc.com/sf-speed-cameras-are-here-a-cheaper-way-to-slow-drivers-is-stuck-in-gridlock/?share=linkedin&nb=1) (Click to share on LinkedIn) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) (An electric sign warns drivers about speed cameras on San Francisco's Gough Street at night. Red taillights are visible on the street, and a city park under lights is to the right.) Not so fast: A sign warns drivers about a speed camera on San Francisco's Gough Street. (Photo: Lisa Plachy) Last week, street safety advocates threw a little party to celebrate San Francisco\u2019s first speed camera at the corner of Geary Boulevard and 7th Avenue. They blew up balloons, kids held signs imploring drivers to slow down, and local news crews showed up to capture the moment. This camera and thirty-two others are about to switch on across the city in the latest attempt to curb dangerous driving. Despite a (https://www.visionzerosf.org/) 2014 pledge to eliminate traffic deaths within a decade, city streets are deadlier than ever, with 42 traffic-related fatalities in 2024. Sign up for The Frisc's free weekly newsletter (1) (4644) (89c7ff15ee) (Email Address) () SIGN UP Another safety milestone on the other side of town, however, didn\u2019t get nearly as much attention. (Or balloons.) In December and January, neighbors on Hearst Avenue, near City College, watched city workers lay down humble rows of asphalt to create speed humps on their street. It was more relief than celebration: It took nearly two years for their request to become reality, even though Hearst is an official \u201cslow street,\u201d meaning the city wants fewer cars and dramatically slower speeds there. Turns out the bureaucratic molasses of the Hearst process is no outlier. The city has no proactive program to lay down speed bumps. Residents must petition for them, and then wait years, not months, for action on a single block. () This 100% SF journalism needs your support. We can't do our work without you. (https://the-frisc.fundjournalism.org/support-100-percent-sf-journalism-today/) DONATE NOW Speed cameras show promise, as data from (https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2025/nyc-dot-speed-cameras.shtml) New York City and (https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/77494) Philadelphia demonstrate. But low-tech speed bumps (as well as humps, which are wider) are cheaper and faster to install. Or they could be \u2014 if San Francisco learns a lesson from another large city across the country. In 2023, Boston decided to ditch its residential request system, like the one in SF, and get up to speed on speed bumps. Boston plans to install 500 a year, a pledge that advocates would love to see in SF as part of a comprehensive approach to calming traffic. \u201cSan Francisco has to stop debating some things,\u201d says Walk SF communications director Marta Lindsey. () The first speed camera in SF\u2019s new program drew a small celebration last week as a city billboard warned drivers of the change. (Photo: Kristi Coale) It\u2019s not clear how many bumps and humps are already on SF streets. A 2022 report from WalkSF said the city had installed 900 the previous two decades, but The Frisc could not confirm these numbers. One (https://sfgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=b1845214716e4e78ab816f89ed3622df) SFMTA map puts San Francisco\u2019s count at a little over 500. When asked to confirm this number, agency spokesperson Michael Roccaforte referred The Frisc to a DataSF set, which tallied 563.\u00a0According to the data set, San Francisco installed only 10 last year. By any measure, the city is making slow progress. Speed killed in 2024 In SF\u2019s 42 traffic fatalities last year, 36 percent of drivers were speeding. Statewide, excessive speed is behind more than one-third of traffic deaths, according to the California Office of Traffic Safety. Efforts to even allow speed cameras in California have been in the works for six years. Proponents like Walk SF\u2019s Lindsey traveled to Sacramento to push for the legislation, which was finally signed into law in 2023. SF\u2019s five-year pilot program, with cameras at 33 intersections, is just now underway.\u00a0San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson Michael Roccaforte said it will cost up to $7.4 million for the program. In New York City, which began using the tech in 2022, a study showed streets with cameras had fewer injuries and fatalities than streets without them. (Shoes and name placards laid out on the steps of SF City Hall as people line up near the building's front door and a sign that memorializes people who have died in traffic-related deaths.) A vigil on the steps of SF City Hall for victims of traffic crashes, Nov. 17, 2024. Forty-two deaths were among the highest for a year in recent memory. (Photo: Lisa Plachy) But there is another tool that SFMTA (https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/residential-traffic-calming-program) describes as \u201cthe most effective\u201d for slowing traffic that is \u201cless resource intensive\u201d than cameras.\u00a0That would be the speed hump. A (https://highways.dot.gov/safety/speed-management/speed-management-countermeasures-more-just-speed-humps#:~:text=Studies%20show%20speed%20humps%20can,speeds%20by%20nearly%2010%20mph.&(See%20page%202%20to%20learn,speed%20humps%20and%20speed%20bumps.)) Federal Highway Administration survey found that speed humps reduce vehicle speed by nearly 10 mph. A (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1448312/) study in Oakland found that children\u2019s odds of injury or death as a result of an automobile collision were cut by more than 50 percent when they lived near speed humps. The SF traffic calming program has a lot of room for improvement. robin pam, kidsafe sf co-founder Though data in SF are limited, SFMTA reports from 2019 and (https://www.sfmta.com/reports/safe-streets-neighborhood-traffic-calming-evaluation-fact-sheet) 2021 show that speed bumps have slowed down drivers across the city. Yet the process for getting even one speed hump in SF is\u00a0 incredibly slow. So slow that in 2021, Vimeo co-founder Zach Klein decided to (https://web.archive.org/web/20211024021829/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1451716229924737030.html) install his own after SFMTA told him it could take 30 months to get one on his street \u2014 if it was even approved. Wait and see Want a speed bump on your street? Get in line. SFMTA accepts applications from residents on a quarterly basis. This is an improvement; it used to accept applications once a year. KidSafe SF co-founder Robin Pam says one of her neighbors applied in June 2022 and have been told the speed hump won\u2019t be installed until at least the end of this year. \u201cThe SF traffic calming program has a lot of room for improvement,\u201d Pam said. (https://thefrisc.com/new-san-francisco-bike-plan-is-full-of-ideas-and-goals-but-short-on-details/) (New San Francisco Bike Plan Is Full of Ideas and Goals, But Short on Details) (https://thefrisc.com/new-san-francisco-bike-plan-is-full-of-ideas-and-goals-but-short-on-details/) New San Francisco Bike Plan Is Full of Ideas and Goals, But Short on Details SFMTA waits until the end of the quarter to begin evaluations on applications, going in the order they are received. The evaluation process is time-consuming. A consultant must visit each individual street to gather traffic data and then report back to SFMTA, which determines eligibility by a couple of factors: traffic speed and volume and whether there is a school, bus stop, or hospital on the block or nearby. Most non-residential and heavily-trafficked streets are not eligible. Applicants can end up waiting eight months or more to hear back from SFMTA on whether their street is approved. That\u2019s just phase one. (https://thefrisc.com/sf-rolls-back-safety-measures-on-franklin-infamous-for-fatalities-1abc58fe096f/) (SF Rolls Back Safety Measures on Franklin Street, Infamous for Fatal Crash) (https://thefrisc.com/sf-rolls-back-safety-measures-on-franklin-infamous-for-fatalities-1abc58fe096f/) SF Rolls Back Safety Measures on Franklin Street, Infamous for Fatal Crash If approved, agency staff go through an \u201cengineering and design\u201d phase, where they decide which specific traffic-calming measure a street will receive. Most often, they choose speed humps \u2014 they\u2019re simple to install, inexpensive, and the most effective way to slow traffic. SFMTA doesn\u2019t give a time frame for this step. Once a traffic-calming measure is selected, the agency holds a public hearing run by agency staff where residents are invited to comment. After this, final approval comes from the city traffic engineer. Only then can construction begin \u2014 likely \u201cwithin 18 months of the public hearing date,\u201d (https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/residential-traffic-calming-program) according to the SFMTA website. () Fresh asphalt: \u201cSlow\u201d Hearst Ave. got a new speed bump recently after waiting nearly two years. (Photo: Kristi Coale) Slow Streets aren\u2019t moving any faster. When SFMTA turned the pandemic experiment into a formal program in December 2022, it pledged to add speed humps and other calming measures to help streets lower vehicle volumes and speeds. The targets are 15 mph and 1,000 or fewer cars per day on average. Slow Hearst, which only received a set of Slow Street signs and plastic posts at the ends of blocks, never met the speed target. So the advocacy group Friends of Slow Hearst turned to their district\u2019s supervisor, Myrna Melgar. She helped secure $50,000 in July 2023 to add three speed humps to Hearst and Flood Streets, adjacent to an elementary school. (https://thefrisc.com/sf-has-promised-safety-fixes-for-these-6-streets-we-checked-their-status/) (SF Has Promised Safety Fixes For These 6 Streets. We Checked Their Status) (https://thefrisc.com/sf-has-promised-safety-fixes-for-these-6-streets-we-checked-their-status/) SF Has Promised Safety Fixes For These 6 Streets. We Checked Their Status Slow Hearst steward and KidSafeSF organizer Sara Barz thought that securing money through Sup. Melgar\u2019s office would streamline the process. But SFMTA still had to go through its evaluation, engineering, and design steps. The agency then elected to add speed tables \u2014 wider than speed humps \u2014 and to add two per block, for a total of six. The city installed the first two in December, and the remaining four in January. All told, the process from writing a proposal to installation took 21 months. Boston\u2019s bumps In May 2023, Boston mayor Michelle Wu announced a plan to install more than 1,500 speed humps on residential streets over three years. The point was to provide a 24-7 method of speed enforcement, said WalkMassachusetts co-executive director Brendan Kearney. \u201cYou can\u2019t have a police presence everywhere,\u201d he told The Frisc . The plan prioritizes areas with a history of crashes and socioeconomically disadvantaged residents. (According to (https://newsroom.aaa.com/2025/02/pedestrian-fatalities-on-urban-roads-at-nighttime/) recent studies , these areas suffer the most traffic injuries and fatalities.) Transportation officials divided Boston into zones, where speed humps are added to groups of streets in a series \u2014 a speed hump every 150 to 250 feet. (A map of Boston with blue, black and purple highlights showing the city's speed bump installation progress.) Boston\u2019s speed bump program began in 2023. Officials have pledged to install 500 a year. (Boston Transportation Dept.; The Frisc) Wu said that the city\u2019s old, application-based process often got bogged down in public comment. Plus, the disjointed approach of putting single humps on individual streets didn\u2019t have much effect. \u201cDrivers just go one street over where there isn\u2019t a speed hump,\u201d Wu said at a May 2023 press conference. Another problem was that safety measures were not distributed with equity in mind, said Kearney. Only people who were \u201cplugged in\u201d would take steps to get speed bumps, he told The Frisc. The program has not been perfect. On one street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood, the city removed 13 speed humps \u2014 (https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/02/06/last-month-a-busy-jp-road-got-13-new-speed-bumps-they-were-just-torn-out/) too many and too high . They\u2019ll add back four when the weather improves. Still, Boston\u2019s chief of streets, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, believes the speed humps are making a difference. In a (https://bsky.app/profile/jfh01.bsky.social/post/3lai5xk7jtp2r) Bluesky post on Nov. 8, Franklin-Hodge provided early data from the program and said, \u201cSpeed humps reclaim neighborhood streets from aggressive drivers.\u201d (The Frisc reached out to Franklin-Hodge for comment and for the \u201cfull report\u201d promised in November, but got no response.) Kearney points to Boston\u2019s Vision Zero numbers as more evidence that the speed humps are working. Pedestrian injury collisions went down from 587 in 2023, when the speed hump program began, to 190 last year. Boston expects to have at least 1,500 speed humps installed by 2026, with expansion plans beyond. Smile, you\u2019re on camera Meanwhile, San Francisco will spend five years evaluating the 33 cameras spread around its most dangerous streets. SF has distributed them based on a few criteria. They\u2019re on the high-injury network, the 12 percent of streets where most traffic-related injuries and fatalities happen. (Fulton Street, Geary Boulevard, and Cesar Chavez Street will each receive two cameras.) SFMTA has also chosen streets where other safety measures, such as speed bumps or lower speed limits, aren\u2019t practical \u2014 because they\u2019re a major thoroughfare or on a bus route \u2014 or where those measures haven\u2019t been effective. (https://thefrisc.com/san-franciscos-street-safety-vision-hasnt-reduced-traffic-deaths-perhaps-speed-cameras-will/) (San Francisco\u2019s Street Safety \u2018Vision\u2019 Hasn\u2019t Reduced Traffic Deaths. Perhaps Speed Cameras Will) (https://thefrisc.com/san-franciscos-street-safety-vision-hasnt-reduced-traffic-deaths-perhaps-speed-cameras-will/) San Francisco\u2019s Street Safety \u2018Vision\u2019 Hasn\u2019t Reduced Traffic Deaths. Perhaps Speed Cameras Will SFMTA says the speed cameras aren\u2019t meant to punish drivers or be a significant source of revenue. But there are financial penalties. Fines start at $50 and can go as high as $500, depending on how fast the driver is going. Low-income drivers and people on public assistance will receive discounts. (The cameras are triggered when a driver exceeds the posted speed limit by 11 mph.) The agency said the citations are civil penalties, not moving violations, because they are issued to the registered vehicle\u2019s owner. They won\u2019t count as points against a driver\u2019s license. Mainly the cameras are intended to change driver behavior, which has worsened since the pandemic. Nationwide, pedestrian deaths are at a 40-year high. Keep up on SF's big civic issues. Subscribe now! (1) (5970) (89c7ff15ee) (Email Address) () SIGN UP SF\u2019s traffic engineers report unsafe speed among the most common causes of collisions. At the same time, the (https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/traffic-ticket-san-francisco-20018194.php) number of SFPD citations have dropped dramatically compared to pre-pandemic years. The department says one reason for the decline is a 2015 law, meant to curb racial profiling, that requires officers to list reasons for traffic stops. SFPD has also blamed staffing shortages. New York is already changing driver behavior. In the study issued in January, 74 percent of vehicles that receive violations get no more than one or two a year; there are few repeat offenders. New York\u2019s program expires this year unless the city council renews it. Back in San Francisco, cameras are part of a broader arsenal of safety tools that includes (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB43) lower speed limits , (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB413) \u201cdaylighting\u201d of intersections , and more, efforts that took several years to accelerate. Right now, speed bumps are stuck in a lower gear. The potential is there, but the city needs to make its move. () Support our journalism and fight for a more affordable, accountable San Francisco. (https://the-frisc.fundjournalism.org/support-100-percent-sf-journalism-today/) DONATE NOW Correction, 3/3/25 : This story originally said that the speed camera at 7th Avenue and Geary Boulevard has been activated. It has not yet been activated, but will be soon. More from The Frisc... 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They blew up balloons, kids held signs imploring drivers to slow down, and local news crews showed up to capture the moment.\u00a0This camera and thirty-two others are about to switch on across the city in the latest attempt to curb dangerous driving. Despite a 2014 pledge to eliminate traffic deaths within a decade, city streets are deadlier than ever, with 42 traffic-related fatalities in 2024.\u00a0Another safety milestone on the other side of town, however, didn\u2019t get nearly as much attention. (Or balloons.) In December and January, neighbors on Hearst Avenue, near City College, watched city workers lay down humble rows of asphalt to create speed humps on their street. It was more relief than celebration: It took nearly two years for their request to become reality, even though Hearst is an official \u201cslow street,\u201d meaning the city wants fewer cars and dramatically slower speeds there.\u00a0Turns out the bureaucratic molasses of the Hearst process is no outlier. The city has no proactive program to lay down speed bumps. Residents must petition for them, and then wait years, not months, for action on a single block.Speed cameras show promise, as data from New York City and Philadelphia demonstrate. But low-tech speed bumps (as well as humps, which are wider) are cheaper and faster to install. Or they could be \u2014 if San Francisco learns a lesson from another large city across the country.\u00a0In 2023, Boston decided to ditch its residential request system, like the one in SF, and get up to speed on speed bumps. Boston plans to install 500 a year, a pledge that advocates would love to see in SF as part of a comprehensive approach to calming traffic. \u201cSan Francisco has to stop debating some things,\u201d says Walk SF communications director Marta Lindsey.\u00a0The first speed camera in SF\u2019s new program drew a small celebration last week as a city billboard warned drivers of the change. (Photo: Kristi Coale)It\u2019s not clear how many bumps and humps are already on SF streets. A 2022 report from WalkSF said the city had installed 900 the previous two decades, but The Frisc could not confirm these numbers. One SFMTA map puts San Francisco\u2019s count at a little over 500. When asked to confirm this number, agency spokesperson Michael Roccaforte referred The Frisc to a DataSF set, which tallied 563.\u00a0According to the data set, San Francisco installed only 10 last year.\u00a0\u00a0By any measure, the city is making slow progress.Speed killed in 2024In SF\u2019s 42 traffic fatalities last year, 36 percent of drivers were speeding. Statewide, excessive speed is behind more than one-third of traffic deaths, according to the California Office of Traffic Safety. Efforts to even allow speed cameras in California have been in the works for six years. Proponents like Walk SF\u2019s Lindsey traveled to Sacramento to push for the legislation, which was finally signed into law in 2023. SF\u2019s five-year pilot program, with cameras at 33 intersections, is just now underway.\u00a0San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson Michael Roccaforte said it will cost up to $7.4 million for the program. In New York City, which began using the tech in 2022, a study showed streets with cameras had fewer injuries and fatalities than streets without them.\u00a0\u00a0A vigil on the steps of SF City Hall for victims of traffic crashes, Nov. 17, 2024. Forty-two deaths were among the highest for a year in recent memory. (Photo: Lisa Plachy)But there is another tool that SFMTA describes as \u201cthe most effective\u201d for slowing traffic that is \u201cless resource intensive\u201d than cameras.\u00a0That would be the speed hump.\u00a0A Federal Highway Administration survey found that speed humps reduce vehicle speed by nearly 10 mph. A study in Oakland found that children\u2019s odds of injury or death as a result of an automobile collision were cut by more than 50 percent when they lived near speed humps. The SF traffic calming program has a lot of room for improvement.\u00a0robin pam, kidsafe sf co-founderThough data in SF are limited, SFMTA reports from 2019 and 2021 show that speed bumps have slowed down drivers across the city.\u00a0\u00a0Yet the process for getting even one speed hump in SF is\u00a0 incredibly slow. So slow that in 2021, Vimeo co-founder Zach Klein decided to install his own after SFMTA told him it could take 30 months to get one on his street \u2014 if it was even approved.Wait and seeWant a speed bump on your street? Get in line. SFMTA accepts applications from residents on a quarterly basis. This is an improvement; it used to accept applications once a year.KidSafe SF co-founder Robin Pam says one of her neighbors applied in June 2022 and have been told the speed hump won\u2019t be installed until at least the end of this year. \u201cThe SF traffic calming program has a lot of room for improvement,\u201d Pam said.\u00a0SFMTA waits until the end of the quarter to begin evaluations on applications, going in the order they are received. The evaluation process is time-consuming. A consultant must visit each individual street to gather traffic data and then report back to SFMTA, which determines eligibility by a couple of factors: traffic speed and volume and whether there is a school, bus stop, or hospital on the block or nearby. Most non-residential and heavily-trafficked streets are not eligible.Applicants can end up waiting eight months or more to hear back from SFMTA on whether their street is approved. That\u2019s just phase one.If approved, agency staff go through an \u201cengineering and design\u201d phase, where they decide which specific traffic-calming measure a street will receive. Most often, they choose speed humps \u2014 they\u2019re simple to install, inexpensive, and the most effective way to slow traffic. SFMTA doesn\u2019t give a time frame for this step.Once a traffic-calming measure is selected, the agency holds a public hearing run by agency staff where residents are invited to comment. After this, final approval comes from the city traffic engineer.\u00a0Only then can construction begin \u2014 likely \u201cwithin 18 months of the public hearing date,\u201d according to the SFMTA website.Fresh asphalt: \u201cSlow\u201d Hearst Ave. got a new speed bump recently after waiting nearly two years. (Photo: Kristi Coale)Slow Streets aren\u2019t moving any faster. When SFMTA turned the pandemic experiment into a formal program in December 2022, it pledged to add speed humps and other calming measures to help streets lower vehicle volumes and speeds. The targets are 15 mph and 1,000 or fewer cars per day on average.\u00a0Slow Hearst, which only received a set of Slow Street signs and plastic posts at the ends of blocks, never met the speed target. So the advocacy group Friends of Slow Hearst turned to their district\u2019s supervisor, Myrna Melgar. She helped secure $50,000 in July 2023 to add three speed humps to Hearst and Flood Streets, adjacent to an elementary school.\u00a0Slow Hearst steward and KidSafeSF organizer Sara Barz thought that securing money through Sup. Melgar\u2019s office would streamline the process. But SFMTA still had to go through its evaluation, engineering, and design steps. The agency then elected to add speed tables \u2014 wider than speed humps \u2014 and to add two per block, for a total of six.The city installed the first two in December, and the remaining four in January. All told, the process from writing a proposal to installation took 21 months.\u00a0Boston\u2019s bumpsIn May 2023, Boston mayor Michelle Wu announced a plan to install more than 1,500 speed humps on residential streets over three years. The point was to provide a 24-7 method of speed enforcement, said WalkMassachusetts co-executive director Brendan Kearney. \u201cYou can\u2019t have a police presence everywhere,\u201d he told The Frisc.\u00a0The plan prioritizes areas with a history of crashes and socioeconomically disadvantaged residents. (According to recent studies, these areas suffer the most traffic injuries and fatalities.) Transportation officials divided Boston into zones, where speed humps are added to groups of streets in a series \u2014 a speed hump every 150 to 250 feet.\u00a0Boston\u2019s speed bump program began in 2023. Officials have pledged to install 500 a year. (Boston Transportation Dept.; The Frisc)Wu said that the city\u2019s old, application-based process often got bogged down in public comment. Plus, the disjointed approach of putting single humps on individual streets didn\u2019t have much effect. \u201cDrivers just go one street over where there isn\u2019t a speed hump,\u201d Wu said at a May 2023 press conference.\u00a0Another problem was that safety measures were not distributed with equity in mind, said Kearney. Only people who were \u201cplugged in\u201d would take steps to get speed bumps, he told The Frisc.\u00a0The program has not been perfect. On one street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood, the city removed 13 speed humps \u2014 too many and too high. They\u2019ll add back four when the weather improves.Still, Boston\u2019s chief of streets, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, believes the speed humps are making a difference. In a Bluesky post on Nov. 8, Franklin-Hodge provided early data from the program and said, \u201cSpeed humps reclaim neighborhood streets from aggressive drivers.\u201d (The Frisc reached out to Franklin-Hodge for comment and for the \u201cfull report\u201d promised in November, but got no response.)Kearney points to Boston\u2019s Vision Zero numbers as more evidence that the speed humps are working. Pedestrian injury collisions went down from 587 in 2023, when the speed hump program began, to 190 last year.\u00a0Boston expects to have at least 1,500 speed humps installed by 2026, with expansion plans beyond. Smile, you\u2019re on cameraMeanwhile, San Francisco will spend five years evaluating the 33 cameras spread around its most dangerous streets. SF has distributed them based on a few criteria. They\u2019re on the high-injury network, the 12 percent of streets where most traffic-related injuries and fatalities happen. (Fulton Street, Geary Boulevard, and Cesar Chavez Street will each receive two cameras.)SFMTA has also chosen streets where other safety measures, such as speed bumps or lower speed limits, aren\u2019t practical \u2014 because they\u2019re a major thoroughfare or on a bus route \u2014 or where those measures haven\u2019t been effective.\u00a0SFMTA says the speed cameras aren\u2019t meant to punish drivers or be a significant source of revenue. But there are financial penalties. Fines start at $50 and can go as high as $500, depending on how fast the driver is going. Low-income drivers and people on public assistance will receive discounts. (The cameras are triggered when a driver exceeds the posted speed limit by 11 mph.) The agency said the citations are civil penalties, not moving violations, because they are issued to the registered vehicle\u2019s owner. They won\u2019t count as points against a driver\u2019s license.\u00a0Mainly the cameras are intended to change driver behavior, which has worsened since the pandemic. Nationwide, pedestrian deaths are at a 40-year high.SF\u2019s traffic engineers report unsafe speed among the most common causes of collisions. At the same time, the number of SFPD citations have dropped dramatically compared to pre-pandemic years. The department says one reason for the decline is a 2015 law, meant to curb racial profiling, that requires officers to list reasons for traffic stops. SFPD has also blamed staffing shortages. New York is already changing driver behavior. In the study issued in January, 74 percent of vehicles that receive violations get no more than one or two a year; there are few repeat offenders. New York\u2019s program expires this year unless the city council renews it.\u00a0Back in San Francisco, cameras are part of a broader arsenal of safety tools that includes lower speed limits, \u201cdaylighting\u201d of intersections, and more, efforts that took several years to accelerate. Right now, speed bumps are stuck in a lower gear. The potential is there, but the city needs to make its move.Correction, 3/3/25: This story originally said that the speed camera at 7th Avenue and Geary Boulevard has been activated. 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