SFMTA Hayes Valley Traffic Calming Update
We’re passing along some updates provided by Casey Hildreth at SFMTA. These updates were provided on August 15th, 2022.
Traffic
Suggestions to Combat Traffic Congestion in Hayes Valley
Richard recently attended a meeting put on by SFCTA. We’re sharing his comments about ways to combat the multitude of traffic issues in Hayes Valley. Many of these thoughts have been shared with City Agencies while we’ve been working on Traffic Calming Issues for the neighborhood. We believe that ‘long game’ remedies need to be put into place which Richard outlines in his commentary – here are a few he mentions: Delivery trucks need dedicated commercial drop-offs (this is a …
Clearing Confusion about our Traffic Calming Initiative
Here’s our email to Bob Barnwell who continues to dismiss our public safety efforts in Hayes Valley while calling himself the Chair of the Hayes Valley Public Safety Committee when in fact he’s the chair of the HVNA (Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association) committee. Kinda confusing, we know (you can read more about this here). It’s not the first time we’ve been on the receiving end of having to explain ourselves, in fact last year he and the HVNA president were …
Hayes Valley Street Closure Traffic Gridlock
Hayes Valley Shared Streets Closure causes Chaos on Hayes and Octavia Is this the best we can do to achieve environmental justice. What about noise & air pollution?
Inquiries Regarding Rerouting the 21 Bus from Hayes to Grove
Over the past few days we’ve received a number of inquiries asking us about our position regarding the possibility of the 21 Hayes Bus being rerouted from Hayes Street on to Grove Street – so, we thought to address this here. HVSafe is in full support of restoring the 21 Hayes to its pre-Covid route. We do not support a modified route of any kind. We have heard from a large segment of neighbors including seniors who have made a …
SFMTA Survey
Specific info on the 21 Bus Take the survey here
HVSafe Letter to Planning Department, RE: Trader Joe’s at 555 Fulton
We thank all of you who reached out to us to add your .02 and concerns about Trader Joe’s. We’re sharing our recent correspondence to the Planning Department and some of our positions on this matter. We recognize taking a position is often fraught with apprehension, but we believe it’s critical for the health of civic dialogue, advocacy and the right to redress. Attention San Francisco Planning Commission: Hayes Valley is plagued with reckless driving and traffic congestion. SFMTA continues …
Thoughts on Trader Joe’s: Traffic and Parking
Pre Application Meeting Takeaways continued You can read part 1 of our thoughts here. Traffic and parking concerns were at the forefront of the topics covered at the meeting. For a neighborhood plagued with traffic congestion, reckless driving issues and SFMTA continuing to minimize parking options it’s understandable that there are serious concerns of the impacts this chainstore will bring to this area. When pressed TJ’s could not clearly answer about exact parking configuration or proposed solutions to the expected …