San Francisco Temporary Street Closures for Shared Spaces and Events

SFMTA's dataset records upcoming and current temporary street closures permitted by the agency, including those from the Shared Spaces program, special events, and construction. Data is exported daily from a Salesforce database maintained by the SFMTA ISCOTT unit and converted to street and intersection geometries. The dataset excludes closures managed by other city departments like Public Works or Police.

Use Cases

• Visualize active and planned street closures based on the 'status = permitted' field.
• Filter for specific closure types like Shared Spaces using the 'type' field.
• Integrate with navigation systems to reroute traffic based on current closure data.
• Analyze the spatial distribution and frequency of closures for urban planning.

Strengths

• Data is updated constantly with a daily report issued.
• Closures are converted to the geometry of streets and intersections.
• Dataset explicitly distinguishes closures permitted by SFMTA from those managed by other departments.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to San Francisco.

Provenance

Source

City of San Francisco, SFMTA ISCOTT unit.

Collection Method

Exported from the Street Closure Salesforce database.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 04:14:33.595172; freshness should be verified.

Geography

San Francisco, California.