The move comes as the agency faces an anticipated $322 million budget deficit next year when federal and state one-time relief funds run out.
Since the launch of the traffic calming program in 2013, residents have been able to ask the city to install new speed-reducing devices, such as concrete islands, speed bumps (and humps), road markings and rubber road cushions, in their neighborhoods.
“A surge in applications during the pandemic — when the SFMTA made the process more accessible — has left a significant backlog of projects, many of which are now ready for construction,” the agency said in a statement, noting it would stop taking applications on July 1.
SFMTA has installed over 1,200 traffic-calming devices throughout the city since 2018, including more than 500 directly requested by residents, according to the agency.
“This work has helped advance San Francisco’s Vision Zero goals — and that effort continues, even as new residential applications are temporarily paused,” it added, referring to an initiative the city launched in 2014 to end traffic fatalities within a decade.
