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In its ongoing effort to curb sideshow exhibitions on San Francisco streets, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is beginning to install speed bumps on specific intersections across the city in a strategic attempt to halt intersection donuts and exhibition driving.
Residents are beginning to discover black and yellow bumps installed at intersections that have been particularly plagued by sideshow events.
These boisterous gatherings occur spontaneously and feature drivers spinning their vehicles around in circles while a crowd of gawkers revel in the hysteria. Drivers target intersections with easy access to highways to scram if and when the San Francisco Police Department appears to break it up. In their wake, they leave behind black, annular tire tread marks.
Sideshows, a longtime Bay Area tradition, have disrupted neighborhoods and caused injuries to both humans and animal bystanders.
According to the SFPD — which has formed a Stunt Driving Response Unit to address the issue — sideshows can turn deadly. The police department wrote that in September 2020, a 22-year-old Sacramento man was shot to death at a San Francisco sideshow.
SFMTA partnered with SFPD to select several pilot locations across San Francisco to install speed bumps. So far, bumps have been installed at the intersections of 20th Street and Folsom Street in the Mission; Sadowa Street and Plymouth Avenue in Oceanview; and Alemany Boulevard and Geneva Avenue in Balboa Park.
Other locations that are pending installations to prevent sideshows are in and around Bayview: along Barneveld Avenue, Loomis Street and McKinnon Avenue; Fairfax Avenue between Keith and Newhall streets; and Galvez Avenue east of Donahue Street.
A spokesperson with SFMTA told SFGATE in a statement that the agency “will monitor the effectiveness of the initial treatments to determine if and how to expand to additional intersections.”
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In its ongoing effort to curb sideshow exhibitions on San Francisco streets, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is beginning to install speed bumps on specific intersections across the city in a strategic attempt to halt intersection donuts and exhibition driving.
Residents are beginning to discover black and yellow bumps installed at intersections that have been particularly plagued by sideshow events.
These boisterous gatherings occur spontaneously and feature drivers spinning their vehicles around in circles while a crowd of gawkers revel in the hysteria. Drivers target intersections with easy access to highways to scram if and when the San Francisco Police Department appears to break it up. In their wake, they leave behind black, annular tire tread marks.
Sideshows, a longtime Bay Area tradition, have disrupted neighborhoods and caused injuries to both humans and animal bystanders.
According to the SFPD — which has formed a Stunt Driving Response Unit to address the issue — sideshows can turn deadly. The police department wrote that in September 2020, a 22-year-old Sacramento man was shot to death at a San Francisco sideshow.
SFMTA partnered with SFPD to select several pilot locations across San Francisco to install speed bumps. So far, bumps have been installed at the intersections of 20th Street and Folsom Street in the Mission; Sadowa Street and Plymouth Avenue in Oceanview; and Alemany Boulevard and Geneva Avenue in Balboa Park.
Other locations that are pending installations to prevent sideshows are in and around Bayview: along Barneveld Avenue, Loomis Street and McKinnon Avenue; Fairfax Avenue between Keith and Newhall streets; and Galvez Avenue east of Donahue Street.
A spokesperson with SFMTA told SFGATE in a statement that the agency “will monitor the effectiveness of the initial treatments to determine if and how to expand to additional intersections.”
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