dispatch emergency services. Drivers beware a new crackdown on speeders is coming to some of the streets of San Francisco. Under a new plan, officers will be focusing on ten of the most dangerous intersections in the city. It's an effort that comes after years of declining traffic. Citations from the department's traffic division. NBC Bay Area Sergio Quintana in San Francisco with the details among the problematic intersections, police officers in the city will be focusing on is this one mission and ninth streets in the South of Market neighborhood, a shop worker told me. Off camera drivers tend to speed through the lights when making a right turn off mission. Another problematic intersection set to get more police attention is market and Octavia at the US 101 onramp, according to police data, this intersection has racked up 13 crashes since January 2022, the most at any intersection of the city. Plans for stepped up enforcement seems to be welcomed. News here. It's a safety issue. There have been accidents, around in our neighborhood, certainly in the mission. And so I think it's a good thing. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the Traffic Enforcement effort has already started and will continue to increase, especially at the ten intersections. The department has identified, according to a 32 page plan put together by the police commander overseeing the department's traffic division. Officers will be conducting what the department calls enforcement waves, which will include saturation patrols at ten of the city's most dangerous intersections. Each of these intersections has been the scene of at least ten crashes in the last two years, having, our SFPD go out there and focus on those streets that are the most dangerous streets that are not designed for safety over speed. Those are the places that it does make sense for our SFPD to be doing enforcement to curb that dangerous behavior. It's a reversal of a downward trend in traffic tickets. According to SFPD data, the number of traffic citations officers write has dropped by 96% over the past decade. The department says it's partially because of a drop in staffing and new regulations. But Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says this plan and a recent effort by officers to get out and enforce traffic violations is an improvement. I guess where I am now is cautious optimism. I think even with their resource constraints, they they do appear to have made progress in the last few months. They do seem to have a plan to do better over this year. Supervisor Mandelman says he will hold a hearing in six months to monitor the department's progress with this new plan to focus on problematic intersections
