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San Francisco curbs spray-painted illegally in pink zones, inflicting confusion amid new 'Daylighting Legislation'

By Miles Cooper
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January 24, 2025
San Francisco curbs spray-painted illegally in pink zones, inflicting confusion amid new 'Daylighting Legislation'
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Nonetheless determining California’s new “Daylighting Law,” various San Francisco residents had been left confused Thursday morning after road curb markings had been tampered with.

A number of road curbs adjoining to pedestrian crosswalks — also referred to as “red zones” — had been illegally spray-painted, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Company confirmed. Two confirmed areas, in response to SFMTA, are on the 18th and nineteenth Avenue intersections of Balboa Avenue. There have been extra on Cabrillo Avenue, though the situation was not specified by the general public transit company.

Presently, it’s unknown who’s liable for tampering with the road curbs. SFMTA crews repainted the curbs by Thursday afternoon when KRON4 went to stated areas.

The incident comes after the state’s Daylighting Legislation was introduced in 2024. The regulation went into impact on Jan. 1, 2025 when SFMTA stated it will start to quote offenders with fines beginning at $40. The regulation requires a 20-foot distance between parked vehicles and pedestrian crosswalks — even when the curb will not be painted pink. If the curb is painted pink, the space between automobile and crosswalk varies.

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San Francisco curbs spray-painted illegally in pink zones, inflicting confusion amid new 'Daylighting Legislation'(Picture offered by SFMTA)

The SFMTA says spray-painted curbs will not be a very good use of its “limited” assets.

“Responding to these incidents is stretching our resources thin and causing confusion among residents,” the SFMTA stated in an e mail to KRON4. “To comply with the state’s daylighting law, we need to be focusing our limited resources where they matter most, which is most immediately in school zones to provide safe crossing to kids.”

This is not the primary time San Francisco road indicators and markings have been tampered with. Final summer season, a pretend sign up Union Sq. exterior the Dior retailer was displayed — showing to mock the California retail theft regulation on the time. The Dior retailer had been sufferer to theft a number of instances.

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The signal, which learn “stolen goods must remain under $950,” went viral on social media.

In 2023, pretend parking citations had been focusing on San Francisco residents. The SFMTA warned about scammers placing out pretend QR codes throughout the town.

“If people notice suspicious curb markings or signage, we encourage them to report it to 311,” the SFMTA stated.

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