As previously reported<\/a>, in 2023, Assemblymember Phil Ting secured $1.2 million in state funds to build protected bike lanes on Arguello<\/a>. District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan and then-District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani pledged $50,000 each from their district community funds towards the project<\/a>. SFMTA itself pledged to match that with another $100,000 from its budget.<\/p>\n But then nothing happened.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been calling for improvements on Arguello for years, and the clock is running out to take action\u2014funding for the project will be lost if it\u2019s not used soon,\u201d said Christopher White, executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.<\/p>\n \u201cPhil Ting secured state funding for a safety project on Arguello more than three years ago, yet the project remains un-built,\u201d said Streets for All San Francisco\u2019s Robin Pam. \u201cSupervisor Connie Chan called for more community input<\/a> before proceeding.\u201d<\/p>\n Streetsblog reached out to District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan, District 2 Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, and Mayor Lurie\u2019s office demanding an explanation for why the city sat on this project. \u201cAs you know, Supervisor Chan has been supportive of this project from the beginning and continues to be so,\u201d wrote a spokesperson for the the District 1 Supervisor. The mayor\u2019s office said they are deferring to SFMTA. A spokesperson for SFMTA pointed out that they are daylighting corners in the area (as is required by state law<\/a>).<\/p>\n But SFMTA\u2019s response sidestepped the fact that \u201cprotected bike lanes and intersections on Arguello and Anza could have prevented this tragedy,\u201d said Streets Forward\u2019s Luke Bornheimer. \u201cWe need Mayor Lurie to lead by directing SFMTA to install protected bike lanes and intersections on Arguello Boulevard and Anza Street by the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n Kristin Ti\u00e8che, a long-time member of the recently dissolved Bicycle Advisory Committee<\/a>, got a direct response from Chan on Monday\u2019s carnage, which she forwarded: \u201cKristin, the pedestrian fatality incident is heartbreaking and SFMTA\u2019s investigation report will give us more details about the facts that caused the fatality and will give us more information to make pedestrian safety improvements.\u00a0The $1.3 million specifically for cyclist safety project is another way to make Arguello safer, and SFMTA has been making progress that will begin with intersection improvements. My team can provide more details shortly\u2014Connie.\u201d<\/p>\n But Ti\u00e8che and other advocates told Streetsblog they\u2019re skeptical that \u201cmore details\u201d will materialize, as the reply above is more or less a repeat of past statements. \u201cChan, [former District 2 Supervisor] Stefani and the MTA had an opportunity to take action years ago,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cTo my knowledge, the [$1.3 million in] funds allocated by Ting, Chan and Stefani in 2023 should still be available,\u201d said Ti\u00e8che. But \u201c\u2026to quote the SFMTA project manager responsible for the Arguello Safety Project in his email to me on September 17,\u00a0\u2018I don\u2019t have any Arguello updates at this time.’\u201d<\/p>\n Arguello remains on San Francisco\u2019s high-injury network<\/a>. A teenager was badly injured there in 2022. Cyclist Ethan Boyes was killed<\/a> on Arguello by a drunk driver in 2023<\/a>. And the SF Standard\u2018s Griffin Gaffney<\/a> was seriously injured when a reckless driver swerved into the bike lane in front of Temple Emanu-El just last year. Now add a dead senior to the list of casualties caused by San Francisco\u2019s failed leadership.<\/p>\n \u201cIn San Francisco, we remain in a state of stagnation because our leaders cannot envision a more livable, safer, greener, healthier, climate-resilient city in their myopic, car-shaped brains,\u201d said Ti\u00e8che. \u201cWhile cities<\/a> like Paris<\/a> make leaps and bounds to protect their residents, San Francisco continues to do nothing but make excuses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tow-truck driver killed Yuan Jun Zhu, 80, a pedestrian who was crossing the street Monday afternoon in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[109921,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-481106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-promoted","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-from-2026-09-30-08-55-25.png\")
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