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Rainbow Crosswalks in Downtown Santa Ana <br />July 20, 2021 <br />Page 4 <br />1 <br />9 <br />0 <br />7 <br />San Francisco, California <br />Figure 3: Rainbow Crosswalks in San Francisco, CA <br />The City and County of San Francisco painted four crosswalks in a rainbow colorway in <br />the Castro District, one of the city’s most well-known gay communities. The entire project <br />was privately funded through donations from the Castro/Upper Market Community <br />Benefits District as part of a larger streetscape project. The total cost of the project was <br />$37,500. The local transportation agency, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation <br />Agency (SFMTA) and the City Traffic Engineer approved the project, despite hesitancy <br />from the Federal Highway Administration. The City Engineer determined that since the <br />rainbow colors of the crosswalk are not considered part of the safety or traffic control <br />measures of the crosswalk, no experimental approval was needed as an exception to the <br />MUTCD. To further detail and guide the project and future decorative crosswalk <br />treatments, in 2014 the SFMTA updated their Crosswalk Guidelines to include a section <br />titled “Decorative Crosswalk Paving”. This updated section includes the following: <br />Clarification on the types of the decorative treatments that are acceptable, based <br />on FHWA guidance <br />Clarification of the use of continental crosswalk markings with the decorative <br />pavement per the SFMTA’s marked crosswalks policies <br />Clarification of the SFMTA’s responsibility for crosswalk maintenance where <br />decorative crosswalks are installed