On Tuesday, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board voted for the bus rapid transit project. The project is made to separate bus lanes from the hectic roads of the city.
The Geary bus rapid-transit project is a combined work of $300 million which connect roads from 34th Avenue to Market Street. It is designed to bring changes in the spacing among the bus stops, new accessible bus stops, sidewalk extensions, and traffic signals. The project includes repaving work and infrastructure development in the previous model.
It will reduce the traffic problems on the road and speed up the travel times by 20 minutes. Also, it improves pedestrian safety and high-risk corridors.
Moreover, the project talks about the vocal opposition and concerned loss of parking and construction impacts on the city transportation system.
The project is still in progress and calls itself the San Francisco sensible transit files lawsuit. Later this year, the officials hope to complete the federal environmental review with city officials.
Further the project has been separated into two different phases. It includes changes between Stanyan and Market Streets with funding sources and identified expectations.
Once the proposal gets approved and obtained by the SFMTA bench, it will outreach to phase one with expected cost of $65 million to finalize the design.
As per the expectations, the concrete roadway and right changes will come to the ground by early 2018.