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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) approved a plan to ban right turns on red at 200 downtown intersections, reports Megan Rose Dickey in Axios.
The plan is part of an effort to reduce pedestrian and cyclist deaths, 20 percent of which occur during right-turn-on-red crashes. While advocates say the city should extend the program to the entire city, “San Francisco does not have enough workers to implement these bans citywide, which would require the installation of thousands of metal signs, SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin told the San Francisco Standard.”
The city plans to expand the program ‘incrementally’ into other neighborhoods.
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