(a) The locations listed in this subsection (a) are designated as Temporary Transit-only Areas. For purposes of this Section 602, “Temporary Transit-only Areas” are defined as the locations that are reserved for the use of buses, streetcars, taxis, bicycles, authorized emergency vehicles, vehicles preparing to make a turn, vehicles entering into or exiting from a stopped position at the curb, and/or vehicles entering into or exiting from a driveway, as specified in this subsection (a) and in any determinations made by the City Traffic Engineer to designate such locations as authorized by subsection (b) to reduce the impact of traffic congestion resulting from the COVID-19 emergency referenced in the Proclamation of the Mayor Declaring the Existence of a Local Emergency, dated February 25, 2020 (“COVID-19 Emergency”).
(1) Except for buses, taxis, authorized emergency vehicles, vehicles preparing to make a turn, vehicles entering into or exiting from a stopped position at the curb, and vehicles entering into or exiting from a driveway, no vehicle may operate in the following Temporary Transit-only Areas:
(A) Laguna Honda Boulevard, both directions, from Clarendon Avenue to Dewey Boulevard;
(B) O’Shaughnessy Boulevard, both directions, from Portola Drive to 800 feet southerly;
(C) Clay Street, 3PM to 6PM, Monday to Friday, eastbound direction, from Stockton Street to Grant Avenue.
(2) Except as to buses, taxis, bicycles, authorized emergency vehicles, vehicles preparing to make a turn, vehicles entering into or exiting from a stopped position at the curb, and vehicles entering into or exiting from a driveway, no vehicle may operate in the Temporary Transit-only Areas on the following corridor:
Woodside Avenue, both directions, from Laguna Honda Boulevard to Portola Drive.
(b) The City Traffic Engineer is authorized to designate Temporary Transit-only Areas and create associated tow-away zones based upon a determination of public convenience and necessity that includes, but is not limited to, meeting the following criteria, following a public hearing held prior to implementation of a corridor:
(1) the corridor is running transit service, or is reasonably expected to run transit service within 45 days of the determination;
(2) the corridor will be a Temporary Transit-Only Area 24 hours a day/seven days a week if approved;
(3) the corridor is delineated in the color red on the map referenced in Appendix A and is within the boundaries of the City and County of San Francisco as described in said map; and either
(4) the corridor runs bus transit service and
(A) there has been more than a 12% time travel savings for the bus transit service functioning on the corridor between the time preceding the COVID-19 Emergency (February 2020) and during the COVID-19 Emergency (April 2020); and
(B) the proposed Transit-only Area will not remove more than one traffic lane in each direction and will preserve one traffic lane in each direction for uses otherwise authorized; or
(5) the corridor has a Municipal Railway line.
(c) Any vehicle operating within a Temporary Transit-only Area authorized by subsection (a) or designated by the City Traffic Engineer as authorized under subsection (b) is in violation of the California Vehicle Code or Division I of the Transportation Code, as applicable.
(d) The authorization delegated to the City Traffic Engineer in subsection (b) and all designations of Temporary Transit-only Areas authorized pursuant to this Section 602 shall expire 120 days after the termination or expiration of the COVID-19 Emergency. The Temporary Transit-only Areas authorized in subsection (a) and any designations of Temporary Transit-only Areas by the City Traffic Engineer under the authority of subsection (b) supersede the designations in Section 601 to the extent there is a conflict between the two sections.
(Added by SFMTA Bd. Res. No. 200630-062, Ad. 6/30/2020, Eff. 7/31/2020; amended by SFMTA Bd. Res. No. 210420-058, Ad. 4/20/2021, Eff. 5/21/2021; SFMTA Bd. Res. No. 210615-084, Ad. 6/15/2021, Eff. 7/16/2021; SFMTA Bd. Res. No. 220118-005, Ad. 1/18/2022, Eff. 2/18/2022; SFMTA Bd. Res. No. 220118-006, Ad. 1/18/2022, Eff. 2/18/2022; SFMTA Bd. Res. No. 220118-007, Ad. 1/18/2022, Eff. 2/18/2022; SFMTA Bd. Res. No. 210420-059, Ad. 4/20/2021, Eff. 5/21/2021, Oper. 8/10/2021 and 3/18/2022; SFMTA Bd. Res. No. 220906-080, Ad. 9/6/2022, Eff. 10/7/2022)