This is a public comment given by the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition to the SFCTA Board in regards to supporting the Mission/Alemany Community Based Transportation Plan.
On behalf of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, our thousands of members, and the larger biking and rolling community, I am writing to express our strong support for Proposition L funds to be allocated for the Mission/Alemany Community Based Transportation Plan.
The District 11 portion of Alemany Boulevard is the main designated bike route between the south and southwest of the city into the heart of San Francisco. Yet west of Rousseau, Alemany bike infrastructure consists of paint-only bike lanes for the entire length of the corridor through Mission Terrace and Outer Mission, which we know fails to protect people biking, particularly along wide roads with high speeds, like Alemany. The existing painted lanes on Alemany are an insufficient facility for people biking, especially in a part of the city where residents are disastrously underserved by All Ages and Abilities facilities.
The consequences of this unsafe road design have been tragic. Juan Paz was riding a bike on Naglee and Alemany where he was struck and killed on November 16, 2025. Since 2017, there have been dozens of traffic-related collisions resulting in injuries or death involving people biking or walking along Alemany in District 11.
People who bike and roll in District 11 or through it will often use Slowyuga––Cayuga Slow Street––as an alternative to Alemany because it’s a residential street with slower speeds. Slowyuga would be much safer if the materials were better maintained and vehicle traffic diverted off Cayuga. Nonetheless, Alemany is the more direct and convenient route between neighborhoods and to important destinations like Glen Park BART, and it therefore needs safety improvements as well.
We have long called for improvements not just to Alemany, but also many other streets on the High Injury Network and inadequately protected bikeways in southern San Francisco that have been putting residents in those neighborhoods at risk of serious injury or death for many years. We hope this plan looks at the project area holistically, with a focus on improving Muni, biking and rolling, and pedestrian safety.
For these reasons, we encourage you to approve the Proposition L allocation for the Mission/Alemany Community Based Transportation Plan, and we look forward to engaging with the District 11 office on the project.
Thank you, Supervisor Chen, for your leadership on this and your commitment to safer streets.”
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