Streets by people who recognize the street is narrow to make it all most untraversable. They would come up to sussex street and by the time they are diverted two blocks out of the way, they are not pleased with their situation and they are not driving safely and i have seen a lot of near misses on sussex street. Chenry street is a throughstreet. It has two dedicated lanes. It was always the emergency route so now if there are emergencies with the slow street, the emergency vehicles have to take a longer time to get to where they need to go because they are diverted but cant go down the narrow streets. I actually agree with a lot of the people who were talking about slow streets that they actually are not as safe as they are proported to be and would not let my kids ride the bike down the middle of chenry because i would be worried cars angry cars would come down. Please think before you vote for chenry slow streets. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Next speaker, please. I have maps. My name is kathleen. I live in glen park and here to convince you chenry street is a bad candidate for slow streets. Lets look at characteristics of a successful slow street. Sanchez. Sanchez is a mile long and includes wide residential streets surrounded by three parallel streets that have two lanes of traffic. No bottomnecks, traffic is moving smoothly. Now, lets look at chenry street. Which i want to remind everyone that chenry is now been pulled from the slow Street Network twice but keeps coming back due to a few neighbors wanting it despite the community against it. Chenry is a couple blocks away from two freeway entrances and exits. Surrounding streets diamond and bosworth at capacity. Chenry is about a third the length of sanchez. It does not have parallel streets with two lanes that can handle the traffic. It does not have cross streets at each block. Instead it is surrounded by single lane streets that are curvy, hilly and narrow that become dangerous when traffic from chenry is diverted to them. Unfamiliar drivers cant pass each other without backing each other up. Red is chenry and purplethese are one lane single streets. Unlike sanchez,ic Host Elementary School of 240 students. Slow street delineators force parents to negotiate choke points causing greater congestion at pick up and drop off. What chenry has, walking distance from the glen park canyon and rec center, the greenway, parallel and provides a beautiful walking experience. Do not make chenry a slow street. Glen Park Community does not benefit from it, just chenry street. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is laura and work at the innerrichmond. We hear experiences of neighbors on safe street of unsafe drivers speeding down the slow streets. Buzzing cyclist pedestrian and kids while they use as a cut through to get places other then the neighborhood. These are cut through drivers taking a short cut not a destination on the block. We need hard diverters installed to curb the dangerous cut through driving the speeding and the excessive volume. The experience and data on lake street shown the slow street had a major regression in safety and function and not meeting the vision set for the network. Sfmta metricsprinted are out of date based on the citizen installed traffic monitors we have that are showing all east lake street is exceeding traffic volumes. Lake in particular, traffic has more then doubled car traffic since the temporary barricades which were will you local traffic only were replaced with the drivethrough non standard purple signs with the local traffic only designation removed. Aggressive driving and road conflicktds have dramatically increased which reflected on the recently citizen dashboard. In addition, because local traffic only designation is removed, the mapping app such as google map encourage as a short cut. indiscernible 25 Miles Per Hour. There is a difference between behavior of these drivers and the safety of local access drivers. We see these speeds adjacent to stop signs, speed humps, raised cross walks. The interventions are not effected for utcanning cutting speed in the way hard diversion is effective changing the mindset of the drivers driving on the slow streets the street was intended indiscernible local access. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is catherine. I live on lake street between 2 and 3. Mr. Mcguire you might recognize as the big red dot on the report where it back in january was about 1400 per day and now it is up to 1700 a day, and it is unattenable. It is completely incompatible with the notion of people actually using the street. You are just bullied out. I clearly have a issue with the evaluation of the lake street as not being a fail on the volume and i think that it needs to be some type of adjustment whether it is treating the east and the west sides differently, or just in common sense a correction based tailored to a location, and i think that the height of it is at the far east end where i live. Plus i have done just in living there and i reviewed the street, it is about 100 to 150 local cars per day on the block. Thats 15 to 1600 through traffic drivers, which is incompatible with the guidelines of trying to keep it to local traffic. There are so manyif you look at the local data you will see 500 to 700 bicyclists on a block. The potential is there, but there also isit is dangerous. It is ridiculously dangerous and you watch the crowding, you watch the lack of nonsharing by this volume of vehicles so all the beautiful pictures of people enjoying the slow streets does not happen when there are 1700 cars on a block. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Im richmond resident, lake street and i wanted to echo points made earlier by fellow street supporters. When we look at the criteria for whether this is succeeding or not, i dont believe that whether there is fewer collisions then prepandemic is necessarily the right measure. I think that we need to look whether or not slow streets are safe for pedestrians and cyclists to use without fear of being hit. I dont think the current traffic calming measures are sufficient. We need physical barriers concrete barriers in the street. I have spoken with drivers under the impression slow streets are open again in the way they were before the pandemic and unfortunately i my self and a lot of other local residents have experienced near miss behavior, close calls with drivers, yelling or threatening. I also want to point out the traffic Data Collected in january this year at a time when there was record rain fall that i believe kept drivers off the road and echoed by previous speakers, we have our own data that reflect much higher car volumes then what is seen in the sfmta data. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no other speakers in the room, secretary silva, please open up the phone lines. We have one speaker requesting accommodation. Please unmute. Thank you. Good afternoon chair eaken. indiscernible she and her. Very good report. Very meaningful. Im looking forward to more people going to the arena to use the muni. Im indiscernible im looking forward doing the streets again. Always been a lot of fun for me. indiscernible is very important because i think about the tunnels in new york city that go to and from penn station. indiscernible i did get to see the yerba buena art, someone who works for [difficulty hearing speaker] with that station in the neighborhood. And indiscernible should be for everyone. I dont just want to see san franciscans. I like to see oaklanders, people from berkeley, marin county and people from around the world. People from new york city and london and tokyo, et cetera, participating in that, because San Francisco is a indiscernible overall, i think this is pretty good. Just trying to give you positive energy here. I am very grateful to indiscernible one way to show it. Thank you. Thank you. At this time well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed 10 minutes. Members of the public wishing to comment dial star 3 to enter the queue. Each speaker has 2 minutes. Moderator, first speaker. Hello board. My name is michael. Here to comment about slow streets. Thank staff for preparing this report. It is comhensive, easy to read, useful to have data instead of indiscernible couple things i want the board to think about when discussing slow streets in the future, the median speed of high level target doesnt do anything to address the upper half of drivers. If you look at the box indiscernible page 15 you can see that 25 percent of drivers more then 25 percent are going really fast on these residential streets. The out liars are terrify ing. This matches perception of slow streets across the city. indiscernible dont feel safe walking in them. Every since the signage changed drivers have behaved more wrecklessly and you see in the report. The changes from 2021 to 2023 drivererize going faster and more of them. The report cant detinguish between local and cut through traffic, but it is obvious cut through drivers go multiple blocks fast and wrecklessly so like to see staff consider harder diversion barriers to discourage cut through driving and think that will make the streets slower and safer for everyone. I hope staff can come up with a plan comprehensive plan to address the failings of the traffic counts and traffic speeds. 30 seconds. Put comprehensive plan in place so we are not fighting over 20 different slow street designs. Put in diverts and indiscernible Real Infrastructure to make these streets welcoming for everybody. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, Board Members. indiscernible thank you director mcguire for the report. Regarding slow streets, despite clear overwhelming support for traffic diverts on slow streets, the agency has continued to water down the physical infrastructure on slow streets including by removing the road close to through traffic signs and removing the local traffic only signs and not installing physical infrastructure or installing ineffective infrastructure indiscernible people feeling more endangered. Walking biking and using mobility devices and the purpose of slow streets being destroyed. Rather then street the symptom, the agency needs to be addressing the disease by installing traffic diverters on slow streets at arterial intersection. Neck down at every intersection and pinch points. Instull the agency installs indiscernible continue to rise and move in the wrong direction indiscernible the board should immediately move to amend the slow streets criteria to 500 cars per day and 10 Miles Per Hour for the 85 percentile. Regarding side shows once again, the agency should use physical infrastructure specifically protected to intersections indiscernible hardin centered lines. Can and should couple with expansion of bike network protective bike lanes to create a network of protected bikelanes and intersections throughout the city. Take a active role on the issue. Sfmta lacks visionary and courageous leadership and as a result continue to fail the city people and the planet. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. Good afternoon. Barry. Tom talked about the warriors and today and thursday. Still have a problem with indiscernible most people take Public Transportation to the game because of the convenience, but at the end of the game a lot of people want to get a taxi cab or other vehicle and get out of there and to go some other place for dinner or drink or home. The problem is the pco are not keeping the cab stand clear and constantly soliciting by the black suv at the curb. I dont know why they continue to allow, especially in the second half these cars parked at the francois boulevard at the curb. It doesnt make sense why they allow so many cars to stay there and long periods of time when it is evidence they are not picking up anybody. They are soliciting or hoping to pick somebody up after the game. I hope you will address the issue particularly during the playoffs and the importance of the games coming up. Regarding slow streets, i am concerned that the wishes and the concerns of the local residents in glen park are not being heard, so hoping that they do that. I am so glad i dont live by these slow streets because emergency vehicles are probably still having a problem accessing them and i think you have to relate to that. Also, there was a lawsuit in new york regarding disabled people not having equity because they cant ride a bike or a scooter and they need a vehicle to get to the doctor appointments and other services. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Hello. My name is brian. I wanted to talk about detail on the slow street report, specifically staff to consider as begin designing proposed Solutions Based off this report. On page 15, next steps paragraph devoted to traffic Calming Solutions to reduce speeds. In the paragraph you only mention speed cushions and painted safety zones and indiscernible to slow vehicle speeds. I urge you to reconsider the limited options. Everyone knows speed cushions fail reducing vehicle speeds, especially from the largest and most dangerous suv. Speed cushions on slow streets decrease the indiscernible people walking. indiscernible to be clear, i really glad this report recognizes the need for design improvements but think one size fits all approach will not be effective reducing speeds. Based on page 13 of the report it appears sfmta thinks traffic diverts such as the one about to be installed at divisadero indiscernible rather then a speed control. Should recognize diverters or drivers are not going faster then 15 miles an hour if on their own block just about to pull into the garage or looking for a parking spot. Cars are only going over 15 miles a hour if they use the block to cut through traffic. If you apply traffic diverters as speed control on all 12 of the slow streets in question, that will drastically help reduce cut through traffic and therefore certainly decrease the median speed of Motor Vehicles as well. That way you also wouldnt be responding 15 thousand on a speed cushion that is proven time and time again to be ineffective with the larger vehicles we see on the road. Please use traffic diverts on all 12 the slow streets that indiscernible and volume calming. Thank you next speaker. Hi, directors. Thank you so much for your attention to slow streets. I really appreciate it and thank you to the staff for this excellent report. I am leeann chang, speaking for myself. I like to get around with my son on the back indiscernible where we can go as a family determined where we feel safe going and where we indiscernible right now, the area around glen park is limits how far we can go toward the southeast. indiscernible i say that because as you build out the network i hope you keep value as the network serving the city and know you understand that. indiscernible appreciation for the slow streets report. I get we are using indiscernible as the previous commenter mentioned, it isnt the median speed that will kill someone t is outlayers and scary to see there are 10 slow streets going over 40 miles a hour, so got my eye on that too. Thank you so much. Thank you. That concludes your 10 minute limit. Thank you secretary silva. Director, did you want to speak . I will not respond to any individual Public Comment, but im just want to note, i think it may not be necessary but note for the public to understand for those who are in the room that saw what just happened, it is like newtons third law. For every Public Comment on slow streets there is equal and opposite Public Comment on slow streets and so you are sitting in the same room and imagine being on our side and hearing passionate san franciscans that live in the neighborhoods talk about slow streets and asking for exactly the opposite solution. indiscernible now outburst. Are not trying to respond to a individual Public Comment, i just want to note for the mublic understanding we are listening to you but also we are hearing in some cases asking us to do opposite things. Just wanted to note that, because i found itthis is what the debate has been like honesty. I wanted to note that. Thanks. Thank you. Director mcguire, would you like to say anything in response to the themes raised or is the City Attorney telling me not to . Can i emphasize two things already on the record madam City Attorney . One is that ill repeat what i said, we will continue to work through the summer and fall on measures that will meet your legislative goals for speed and volume. There are lots of comments how to get there and well keep working on that. Second thing is, it is in the report that we released today and on the website we are planning to bring chenry street for action before this board on may 16. Okay. Thank you. Thank you all for being here. Your feedback and perspective is valuable to us and very helpful as we shape our policy pathway Going Forward. Ill just note to director yekutiel comment, what i did hear in common across both folks who support slow streets and dont is concern about too many cars and fast cars and are aggressive behavior. That does seem to be a area of alignment. Alright. With that, well close item 7. Lets go to the next item please. Item 8, the Citizen Advisory Council report. There is no report for today. Places on item 9, general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the board on matters within the boards jurisdiction and not on todays calendar. I had a stack of speaker cards but it seems all those speakers spoke during item 7. Well open Public Comment for those in the room to comment on items not on todays agenda. Seeing none, please open the phone line. We have one speaker requesting accommodation, moderator, please unmute. indiscernible about a week ago, i was on muni again. Another of my trips. I was very fortunate to meet another wonderful member of the muni family and i did get to see new things. I did get to see the artwork at yerba buena and i did get to use the subway again. 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