Dear Mayor Nash and Councilmembers,
Growing up on Partridge Avenue, the neighborhood kids usedto play in the street. Now, I fear for my daughter when she crossesthe same street to see a neighbor or bicycles to the park. Cars drive too fastdown our street, whether they are maintaining high-speeds after turning offfrom El Camino Real or accelerating from University Avenue. Partridge has twobusinesses on the corner with El Camino Real that adds cut-through andcommercial traffic down the street. In addition, the Citys unilateral decisionto suspend permit parking enforcement in our neighborhood means our alreadynarrow street is lined with cars, blocking sight lines from driveways andfunneling cars closer to bicyclists and pedestrians. Despite these factors,Partridge Avenue, the most densely populated street in Allied Arts, would beineligible to request traffic calming measures under the proposed Slow Streetsdraft.
We urgently need street safety, but the current Slow Streetsdraft has critical omissions. I urge you to approve the program tonight, butwith two binding directives to staff:
If access to the program is based on data, thedata must be accurate and the criteria must be appropriate. The proposedscoring gates program access behind either a documented injury orinconsistent/incomplete speed data. Please direct staff to use accurate andappropriate speed measurements to capture the vehicles causing the greatestrisk of serious injury or fatality. Dangerous streets must get help beforecollisions, injuries, or worse occur. Or, allow access to the program throughother reasonable demonstrations of need.
Please launch a pilot now: Begin an immediate 90-day,low-cost quick-build pilot starting with the Allied Arts plan that SanFrancisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA) validated over 5 years.
A flawed plan wont deliver safety to our children,residents, and neighborhoods. Please vote to approve a strengthened Item H-2.
Thank you,
Peter
Peter Cook
Partridge Resident
