04/20/2024
I strongly oppose the draft plan to limit cars on the West Portal and Ulloa intersection.
From the President of West Portal Merchants Association: “This proposal has no correlation to the actual recent car accident. In fact, no cause for the accident has yet to be released, but MTA did a week after the incident publicly announce that the intersection was safe and did not at all contribute to the accident.
This plan is clearly an opportunistic effort to capitalize on a recent tragedy and done for political purposes at the behest of advocacy groups that have no connection with or understanding of our neighborhood.
The merchants and neighbors have repeatedly offered more sensible and cost-effective measures for traffic calming, and none have been ever seriously been considered. This proposal will worsen the traffic on West Portal, decimate the business of local merchants and frustrate the countless elderly, family, disabled and commuter residents who rely on the use of cars. The MTA admits that this intersection is NOT one that has a high injury incident history. Resources would be better spent collaborating with neighbors and merchants on traffic flow solutions, and putting MTA money toward actually dangerous traffic areas. The total lack of collaboration with stakeholders on this issue and giving residents a 10 day “opportunity” to provide feedback is reckless and irresponsible. Absolutely no changes should be made until the L Taraval project is completed and the new patterns arising from there are evaluated. This plan needs to be completely retracted and residents and businesses need to be directly involved in ANY changes to the West Portal traffic.”
Please make your feelings known by responding to the survey or sending letters to the the politicians involved. All links are in our bio. Thank you 🙏🏼