"It took less than six months from launching this project to getting safety improvements built, and we have West Portal community members to thank for that," said Melgar.
"I convened the Welcoming West Portal Committee with community members who had very different viewpoints, but they talked to each other, pooled their local knowledge and came up with ideas that are already making it safer to get around."
"SFMTA responded to the tragedy by proposing to divert all motor traffic away from the mouth of the station, where pedestrians, transit vehicles, and motorists currently mix."
"I would say that ten to twenty percent of cars were just blowing through the prohibited turns," wrote safe-streets advocate Shanan Delp in an email to Streetsblog.
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