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    This is the SF intersection where you’re most likely to get pulled over for speeding

    Park Presidio Bypass has consistently been the location where police stop the most speeders, with 2025 marking its busiest year yet.

    A white van drives on a two-lane road bordered by trees and graffiti-covered concrete barriers under a blue sky with scattered clouds. A speed limit sign shows 35 mph.
    Park Presidio Bypass, northbound, saw the most speeding tickets issued during police stops of any location citywide. | Source: Garrett Leahy/The Standard
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    By Garrett LeahyNews Reporter

    If you’re running late and driving out of Golden Gate Park toward the Golden Gate Bridge, you might be tempted to put the pedal to the metal, but you shouldn’t. Nearly 1,000 drivers were stopped by police for speeding at the Park Presidio Bypass last year — more than anywhere else in San Francisco. 

    It’s been that way since at least 2019.

    The San Francisco Police Department enforces traffic along northbound Park Presidio Bypass prior to Fulton Street, where crashes are frequent, according to Richmond station police captain Kevin Lee. 

    When officer catch drivers speeding, they pull them over to Funston Avenue and Cabrillo Street one block away to write a ticket. 

    A map shows streets including Fulton St, 14th Ave, and Funston Ave, with a blue arrow pointing from a star near a park labeled Rose Garden toward Funston Ave.
    Police clock speeding drivers on Park Presidio Bypass, then pull them over to Funston Avenue near Cabrillo Street — which is reflected in the data. | Source: SFPD

    Officers cited 979 drivers for speeding there in 2025 — roughly 36% of all speeding citations issued citywide. In 2019, they wrote 793 tickets at the intersection.

    Chris Rux, 26, who walks and drives along Park Presidio Bypass frequently, said he sees drivers speeding northbound, some of whom appear unaware of the stop sign at Fulton Street just ahead.

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    “People come flying around the corner,” he said.

    Rax, 39, a homeless man who panhandles two to three times a week at the intersection of Park Presidio and Fulton streets, said he sees cars speeding “all the time” along Park Presidio northbound, toward the Golden Gate Bridge, particularly on Fridays and weekends.

    “The mom minivans don’t speed too much,” he said. “More the sports cars.”

    A man in a gray hoodie and black cap stands at a crosswalk next to a small dog, with cars stopped at a red light and trees in the background.
    Rax said he frequently sees speeding drivers as he is panhandling at Fulton Street and Park Presidio Boulevard. | Source: Garrett Leahy/The Standard

    Still, police enforcement pales in comparison to the volume of citations issued by the city’s automated speed cameras since they began issuing tickets in April 2025.

    During the last eight months of 2025, the cameras issued 93,375 speeding tickets, nearly 35 times what SFPD issued over the entire year. In 2025, an automated camera at Bryant Street between Second and Third streets issued 24,110 tickets from April through December, the highest total among the city’s 33 camera locations.

    The city has not placed an automated speed camera at Park Presidio Bypass because doing so is barred under the state law (opens in new tab) authorizing the speed camera program in the city, according to a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson.

    The cameras use radar to detect whether a vehicle is speeding and snap a photo of the car’s license plate. 

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    Retired municipal bonds lawyer Bill Madison, 77, has lived on the same block of Funston Avenue near Cabrillo Street for 43 years and said he sees police pulling over drivers roughly four times a week. He often sees them when he and his wife are coming back from a show at the San Francisco Playhouse, the opera, or from dinner, typically between 9:30 and 10 p.m.

    Unlike many of those interviewed by The Standard, Madison was willing to guess how many tickets were issued in 2025, both by police and by the automated speed cameras. When he heard the disparity, he couldn’t help but laugh.

    “They don’t take coffee or doughnut breaks,” he said of the cameras.

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