Townsend Street Being Modified as Traffic-Related Deaths Rise in San Francisco
Townsend Street from Third to Eighth streets – an area encompassing the Fourth Street Caltrain depot – is being significantly renovated to improve safety and transit speed, with the installation of Muni bus loading zones, protected bikeways, and an 1,000-foot-long raised sidewalk where no safe footpath had previously existed. The Townsend Street Corridor Improvement Project…