Stop the Morning Tow on Oak!

Members will be asked to vote to support the repeal of the tow-away lane on Oak St. The following is information from proponents of the repeal.

For drivers:

• Frees up over 150 long-term parking spaces
• Reduces speeding

For ALL residents:

• Reduces traffic noise
• Makes our sidewalks much safer/more pleasant
• Lots more neighborhood parking for your early morning guests, even if they are just dropping by to pick you up
• Improved localized air quality

Why this change is possible:

• For many months, this same approach has worked very well for Fell Street (parking there is both sides of the street at all times, except street cleaning)
• Traffic volumes on Oak and Fell are similar (currently commuters are “given” 4 lanes on Oak to go to work in the morning, while those same commuters do fine with 3 lanes on Fell in the afternoon)
• Drivers tend to avoid the curbside traffic lane on Oak Street anyway, due to its discomforting tilt toward the sidewalk for drainage purposes
• The City wastes valuable taxpayer resources by deploying Parking Control Officers each weekday morning to ticket/tow vehicles parked curbside on the north side of Oak Street
• Traffic uses the north (curbside) lane for only 90 minutes a day, 5 days/wk
• It is dangerous to facilitate speeding with 4 lanes of morning freeway-bound traffic through Oak Street, since the traffic comes to an abrupt crawl just east of Fillmore Street (approaching Octavia Blvd)