The City of San Diego should END the Pacific Beach Shared-Street Experiment

The Diamond Street experiment is in direct opposition to the  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's most basic guidelines.

This street was closed because they trusted the science of social distancing. Now they're ignoring science from our national experts.

Pedestrians should NOT be encouraged to comingle with automobiles in the streets-especially in our predominately young demographic. 

An independent road-safety audit will prove these dangers.

Residents are being forced to drive on the wrong side of the road to navigate road-closure signs, off-leash pets, and distracted recreationalists who are cursing and/or "flipping off" drivers as they try to enter their own driveways.

Homeowners are being forced to endure permanent adversity of new thoroughfare traffic and/or an intrusive "boardwalk" that has created an influx of noise, dog waste, littering, and loitering. 

This experiment is devoid of any sophisticated data that should be required to prove that this drastic change to our homes is superior to our national experts' data-driven recommendations for safe streets.

The City should rely on infrastructures proven to make our roads safer instead of expending valuable resources toward a project that is undermining homeowners' rights, jeopardizing securities, causing a deep divide within our community, and increasing dangers instead of decreasing them.

To further support this cause, please contact: 

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Headquarters, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590 Telephone: 1-888-327-4236 

Email: nhtsa.webmaster@dot.gov