The Press WatchlistBuilt 2026-08-22

Which San Francisco corners the city's own coverage is talking about right now. Every lane on this site starts from a corner and asks what is written about it. This one runs the other way: it starts from the coverage and asks which corners are in it.

Candidates are pulled from citywide semantic searches, then each one has to clear three bars before it appears here: both names have to be San Francisco streets, the pair has to be an exact match in the graded city index, and the article has to actually be about safety at that crossing rather than merely mention it. Everything that fails is below, with the reason. A corner appearing here has not been audited: it is a lead, and the grade beside it is the census grade its records already earned.

423articles read 29searches attempted 29completed 13verified 20rejected 48phrases discarded

1,958 corners press-checked this month, 1,765 with coverage found. The other 193 were searched and nothing on topic came back, which is stored and shown as a result rather than as a gap. Press-checked corners keep their tier: this lane adds a press section, not an audit.

On the watchlistworst first
F Gough and Market, District 6 The Most Dangerous Intersections And Freeways In San Francisco
arashlaw.com · 2026-06-05
found by: San Francisco Vision Zero high injury corridor collision report
99
F 6th and Tehama, District 6 Man struck by car in San Francisco on Tuesday dies in hospital
missionlocal.org · 2026-07-14
found by: cyclist hit by a driver at a San Francisco intersection
98
D Cortland and Mission San Francisco supervisors back expanding speed camera program
missionlocal.org · 2026-07-15
found by: SFMTA approves changes at a San Francisco intersection after a crash
92
D Mission and Norton, District 11 $31M Excelsior-Outer Mission Safety Improvements Complete
inglesidelight.com · 2026-07-11
found by: San Francisco intersection redesign, crosswalk or traffic calming project
92
D Fell and Masonic, District 5 BIKE NOPA: Getting Clear about Right-of-Way at Fell and Masonic Crosswalk: Different Signal Phases for Cyclists and Pedestrians
ibikenopa.blogspot.com · 2026-06-12
found by: San Francisco daylighting or leading pedestrian interval at an intersection
91
D 8th and Harrison, District 6 Seattle Hit-and-Run Injures Skateboarder in South Lake Union
hoodline.com · 2026-08-19
found by: hit and run at a San Francisco crosswalk
91
D Baker and Hayes, District 5 Video shows occupant flung from three-wheeler in S.F. crash
sfchronicle.com · 2026-06-04
found by: San Francisco Vision Zero high injury corridor collision report
86
D Lenox and Ulloa, District 7 New SFMTA program brightens up daylighted spaces with help from community groups - The Voice of San Francisco
thevoicesf.org · 2026-06-25
found by: San Francisco daylighting or leading pedestrian interval at an intersection
82
D Divisadero and Grove, District 5 San Francisco rollover crash disrupts traffic and Muni service
sfchronicle.com · 2026-08-04
found by: collision at an intersection reported in San Francisco this month
81
D Davis and Sacramento, District 3 SFMTA adds parking spaces in Chinatown while preserving Muni lanes - The Voice of San Francisco
thevoicesf.org · 2026-07-23
found by: pedestrian safety at an intersection in Chinatown, San Francisco
81
B 17th and Texas, District 10 Vehicle crashes into historic San Francisco building, 1 injured
sfchronicle.com · 2026-08-17
found by: San Francisco Vision Zero high injury corridor collision report
62
B 7th and Brannan, District 6 Two SF pedestrians fatally struck by vehicles ID'd
sfgate.com · 2026-06-08
found by: pedestrian struck or killed crossing the street in San Francisco
61
A Cesar Chavez and Sanchez, District 8 New Community Corners City Program
slowsanchez.com · 2026-07-16
found by: quick build safety project San Francisco street corner
33
Every searchand when it last ran

All 29 queries in the set, each with the date it last reached Exa. A query that has never run says so. This list exists because for a long time twenty-two of these were cut off every morning, stored with their failure reason, and rendered nowhere: a discovery pipeline that publishes only what it found, and quietly drops what it never looked for, is making a claim about the city it has not earned. Every one of them has now run at least once.

pedestrian struck or killed crossing the street in San Franciscolast ran 2026-08-22
San Francisco intersection redesign, crosswalk or traffic calming projectlast ran 2026-08-22
residents demand safety changes at a San Francisco intersectionlast ran 2026-08-22
San Francisco Vision Zero high injury corridor collision reportlast ran 2026-08-22
San Francisco neighborhood traffic safety meeting about a dangerous cornerlast ran 2026-08-22
SFMTA approves changes at a San Francisco intersection after a crashlast ran 2026-08-22
cyclist hit by a driver at a San Francisco intersectionlast ran 2026-08-22
hit and run at a San Francisco crosswalklast ran 2026-08-22
San Francisco school crossing safety concerns for childrenlast ran 2026-08-22
senior pedestrian injured crossing a street in San Franciscolast ran 2026-08-22
petition for a stop sign or traffic signal at a San Francisco intersectionlast ran 2026-08-22
neighbors petition San Francisco for a crosswalk after a collisionlast ran 2026-08-22
community meeting about a dangerous San Francisco crossinglast ran 2026-08-22
supervisor calls for safety improvements at a San Francisco intersectionlast ran 2026-08-22
San Francisco daylighting or leading pedestrian interval at an intersectionlast ran 2026-08-22
quick build safety project San Francisco street cornerlast ran 2026-08-22
dangerous intersection where pedestrians have been hit in San Francisco SF outlets onlylast ran 2026-08-22
crosswalk safety changes coming to a San Francisco corner SF outlets onlylast ran 2026-08-22
collision at an intersection reported in San Francisco this month SF outlets onlylast ran 2026-08-22
crosswalk at an intersection in the Tenderloin, San Franciscolast ran 2026-08-22
crash at an intersection in the Excelsior, San Franciscolast ran 2026-08-22
traffic calming at an intersection in the Bayview, San Franciscolast ran 2026-08-22
pedestrian safety at an intersection in the Sunset, San Franciscolast ran 2026-08-22
crosswalk at an intersection in the Mission, San Franciscolast ran 2026-08-22
crash at an intersection in SoMa, San Franciscolast ran 2026-08-22
traffic calming at an intersection in the Richmond, San Franciscolast ran 2026-08-22
pedestrian safety at an intersection in Chinatown, San Franciscolast ran 2026-08-22
crosswalk at an intersection in the Castro, San Franciscolast ran 2026-08-22
crash at an intersection in Visitacion Valley, San Franciscolast ran 2026-08-22
Rejectedand why
Ashton and Julesno graded crossing by that name in the citywide index
Geneva and Missionalready audited, so this is a corner we have done rather than a lead
Church and Marketthe article names this crossing but is not about safety at it
2nd and 4thno graded crossing by that name in the citywide index
16th and 24thno graded crossing by that name in the citywide index
8th and 9thno graded crossing by that name in the citywide index
Greenwich and Lombardno graded crossing by that name in the citywide index
4th and 5thno graded crossing by that name in the citywide index
Hudson and Woodsideno graded crossing by that name in the citywide index
5th and Jacksonno graded crossing by that name in the citywide index
1st and Ogdenno graded crossing by that name in the citywide index
Golden Gate and Stanyanthe article names this crossing but is not about safety at it
16th and Missionalready audited, so this is a corner we have done rather than a lead
3rd and New Montgomeryno graded crossing by that name in the citywide index
Main and Missionthe article names this crossing but is not about safety at it
Capp and Shotwellno graded crossing by that name in the citywide index
Sansome and Sutterthe article names this crossing but is not about safety at it
24th and Missionthe article names this crossing but is not about safety at it
North Point and Van Nessthe article names this crossing but is not about safety at it
Clay and Montgomerythe article names this crossing but is not about safety at it

A further 48 phrases were discarded before reaching this list because neither half named a San Francisco street. Page text is full of capitalized pairs joined by "and" (navigation menus, section headings), and every one of them looks like an intersection to a pattern match. They are counted rather than listed, because a page of them teaches a reader nothing.

How it runs

29 citywide semantic searches are attempted over the last 90 days, run through Exa with the news category, a published-date window, and lead-generation domains excluded at the API rather than filtered afterwards. Each result's text is scanned for crossing names, and every name is checked against the same index the site grades from.

This lane has its own cron trigger at 13:20 UTC and therefore its own subrequest budget. A Worker invocation may make fifty external requests and this lane costs exactly one per query, so the set fits with room to spare. It used to run as the last lane of the daily audit, sharing that invocation's fifty with everything the audit had already spent, and arrived with about seven of them left: twenty-two searches were cut off before they reached Exa every morning, and this page reported twenty-nine.

The last pass completed all 29. The pass costs 29 searches.

29 queries against a ceiling of 40 per run, so every query runs every morning and a cycle is one run. If the set ever grows past the ceiling the lane rotates through it rather than truncating, and this line will say so.

Last run 2026-10-18, incomplete: exa call budget exhausted.

This is an entity-discovery workflow of the shape Exa's Websets product is built for: find candidate entities, verify each against hard criteria, keep the ones that survive. It is implemented directly on the search API, which is what the event credits cover.

The rest of the press lane

Three more things this site does with Exa. Each one is reachable from here rather than only by landing on the right corner.