District 5: Ross Mirkarimi

There is always a large puddle on the footpath that goes through the Pandhandle at Lyon Street. It's there even when it hasn't rained for a long time and sometimes covers the entire path. The exact spot is near the light that's just north of the southern path through the Panhandle.

We who live in the western half of SF are forced to rely heavily on Fell & Oak Streets. Any blockage on those streets is both inconvenient and a safety hazard.

It seems that at least half the times I'm on Fell at Divis., there is a backup of stopped cars in the left lane, waiting to pull into the Arco gas station here. This is inappropriate anywhere, and dangerous on such a major artery.

I see two possible solutions:
1) Require the Arco station to redesign its layout so cars can wait on premises, not on the public street;
2) eliminate 3-5 parking spaces on the left side just before this station, to accommodate waiting traffic.

Enforcement would probably help too.

Thanks.

Whenever I cross 7th ave. on Irving -- a busy commercial area -- I fear for my life, with cars speeding along as if they're still on the expressway portion of 7th (up the hill). Also, when I'm forced by street cleaning to look for parking on that part of 7th, drivers behind me are quick to honk rudely behind me, again as if they think it's still an expressway.

I'd like to see signage and speed limit enforcement on 7th between about Judah/Kirkham and Lincoln.

This is a residential / commercial area, not a highway.

Thanks.

There are way too many traffic lights on Octavia between Oak and Market. Drivers can't turn off Octavia onto most of these streets anyway, so there's little point in the traffic lights.
Stop signs on the east-west streets, plus yield signs on Octavia, would meet the needs of occasional east-west traffic (is there even any such traffic?) much more efficiently.

So many lights so close together serves no real purpose except to create a bottleneck.

Lights at Fell, Oak, and Market are sufficient here. Let's eliminate the others, please.

Thanks.

Seems like there's always commercial trucks double parked on both sides of Oak just before Divis. Made worse by those stopping to pick up day laborers on the right. Fell and Oak need to remain clear. How bout some loading zones.