We continue as unwavering advocates for car free spaces in San Francisco.

Lee Heidhues 9.3.2023

Liz and I have been and will continue to be unwavering advocates for car free spaces in San Francisco. JFK Promenade. The Great Walkway. Slow Streets.

We have prevailed and will continue to fight. We will be “magnanimous” while savoring our small victories.

For three years Liz and I have been the subject of vicious attacks on Social Media. Someone even stooped to the depth of calling Liz Heidhues a “luddite” for her advocacy. We refuse to be intimidated. Our advocacy along with that of thousands of San Francisco citizens continue to achieve incremental progress in making the City a more pedestrian and cyclist friendly City.

Liz and I have been subjected to a litany of vitriolic comments for posting our opinion in The Richmond Review. By entitled motorists who lost at the Board of Supervisors, the ballot box and the courtroom in their well funded efforts to maintain their hegemony.

Most recently we took strong exception to an oped by the former publisher Tom Pendergast titled “Despite Pleas, Geary Blvd. Quick Build Project OK’ed” bemoaning the approval of the Geary Transit project.

We spoke up in favor of the Geary Transit Corridor project approved after 20 years of mindless kvetching and whining from the entitled motorists and business owners who blame their failures on the lack of parking.

One respondent called it a “tragedy” that the long overdue project will now go forward citing the alleged deleterious impact it will have on local business. An allegation which has no basis in fact.

The real “tragedy” is the continuing mayhem on City streets caused by cars.

This morning I came upon an accident scene at 43rd and Anza Street in the outer Richmond. Even though there is a four way STOP sign two cars collided. When I arrived one dazed motorist was being tended to by the emergency crew. The other motorist was sitting in the ambulance.

The financial impact to the City caused by accidents, injury and death is something which the entitled motorists refuse to acknowledge. Instead the entitled motorists continue to to assert their right of hegemony over the streets of San Francisco.