{"id":3113,"date":"2009-10-15T10:27:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T17:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2012-03-22T19:07:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T02:07:46","slug":"new-traffic-light-timing-on-valencia-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/new-traffic-light-timing-on-valencia-street\/","title":{"rendered":"New Traffic Light Timing on Valencia Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just called San Francisco 311 to offer a compliment to the city. The city changed the traffic light timing on Valencia Street between 16th and 25th about 4 months ago. It is now a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_wave\">green wave<\/a> at <strike>15<\/strike> 13.5 miles per hour in both directions. I love it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 3-22-12<\/strong>: I drove the route and verified that the wave is <strong>13.5 mph<\/strong> from 16th st to 24th st, not 15mph like I originally thought. Back to original post&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For <strong>cars<\/strong>, it offers traffic calming and \u00a0consistency. If you drive at 13.5mph, you&#8217;ll hit a green light at every intersection. Drivers make their way down the road roughly as fast but it&#8217;s less stressful. And if a driver -really- wants to go around this sluggish feeling traffic, they can take South Van Ness or Guerrero.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy for <strong>bikes <\/strong>to keep up with the pace of traffic, making it feel safer because  \u00a0there is no speed difference between cars and bikes. Going up-hill from 18th-21st it&#8217;s a healthy challenge to keep up with the lights. It&#8217;s an odd thrill on a bike, meeting up with the same cars at every light.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pedestrians <\/strong>have less to worry about because traffic is moving slower and more \u00a0consistently. The strip from 15th to 25th is a pedestrian-friendly shopping and living district, now moreso!<\/p>\n<p>My only complaint: I want to see more of this!<\/p>\n<p>Also read this article on <a href=\"http:\/\/sf.streetsblog.org\/2009\/03\/02\/valencia-signals-re-timed-to-improve-traffic-flow-and-safety\/\">SF Streetsblog that talks about the Valencia Street re-timing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just called San Francisco 311 to offer a compliment to the city. The city changed the traffic light timing on Valencia Street between 16th and 25th about 4 months ago. It is now a green wave at 15 13.5 miles per hour in both directions. I love it. Update 3-22-12: I drove the route [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}