Nancy Mullane

ALT Slow Lake Street is going away permanently as Mayor decides to prioritize cut-through traffic Faced with Mayoral interference in public process, SFTMA is abandoning Slow Lake Street entirely. Dear Friends of Slow Lake: On Wednesday, we received the disastrous and unexpected news from the Mayor’s Office and SFMTA that they are planning to essentially abandon Slow Lake. In the meantime, SFMTA will install a few stop

ALT signs and metal barricades—will be removed from Lake Street. What happened? You should be as puzzled as we are at this turn of events. Why would the SFMTA, after its Board voted to make Slow Lake a permanent slow street, spend six months proposing designs, hosting informational meetings, and conducting surveys—surveys that repeatedly confirmed solid majority Richmond District support for Slow Lake Street—only to suddenly pull the plug without any reasonable explanation? This tragedy seems the product of hostility by Mayor London Breed, who appears to have quietly directed the SFMTA to end Slow Lake. That’s the only explanation for why a Slow Street made “permanent” by 7-to-0 vote by the SFMTA Board was watered

ALT down from 20+ traffic diverters to 4. Within just the last two weeks, SFMTA staff was vigorously defending the final design and SFMTA Board members were still publicly under the impression that Slow Lake was continuing. Yet, this week, before the city’s Traffic Engineer could even make his decision on the those proposed four diverters, the Mayor’s Office and SFMTA announced that they are effectively withdrawing the design rather than improving on it. Only the Mayor can tell us what really happened here. What you should do right now: 1 Email the Mayor and share your disappointment. The button below generates a simple template

ALT email. If you have time, please add a personal message about why her plan to abandon Slow Lake is disastrous for our community, city, and planet. Email Mayor Breed 2 Call the Mayor’s Office and express your displeasure Call the Mayor’s Office If you know Mayor Breed or her staffers, ask them directly—by phone or email—why the public process has been interrupted to stop a permanent Slow Lake Street.