Open The Great Highway Alliance is a nonprofit benefit corporation whose purpose is to educate the public about the safety of our streets, especially issues concerning the Great Highway. The GH has not had a death on it since 2005, and the last time the SFFD was called to a vehicular collision on it was in 2017. It is a safe, wide, divided highway with painted, lighted, paved crosswalks, without any cross traffic, with timed traffic lights so vehicles at 35 mph drive nonstop on its 2 miles emitting far less greenhouse gasses than stop-and-go traffic in gridlock by homes and small businesses. The highway must be free of pedestrians in its traffic lanes so emergency vehicles can drive in those lanes, unobstructed without delay, when they are responding to beach and ocean rescues, and driving through the neighborhood to get to emergencies and hospitals. Many people working in San Francisco live south of the Great Highway, and many who live here work south of here, and use the GH as the fastest easiest way to commute to work. It is a scenic drive and relieves traffic from traveling through the inner city. It was promised it would be temporarily closed to enable social distancing during the COVID pandemic, and would be restored to its original use after the danger passed. If any changes are to be made, they should be considered only after an Environmental Impact Report has been done, after the highway has been restored to its original pre-emergency state. A temporary pilot project is a way around CEQA and the California Coastal Act, and a loophole for the City of SF to avoid doing an Environmental Impact Report which would normally be required for the closing of a Coastal Road. What are they afraid of? The Sierra Club has urged them to do it and they should welcome the information it will provide.
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