Faces of Slow Lake Street: JAN SMITH, MAUREEN HANLON, AND RICARDO CHARLES

JAN: “I live on 8th Avenue and I love it. I love to run. I love to bike. I love to walk. This is such a wonderful venue to do it in without having to worry about being hit by cars, etc. And I love seeing people enjoy it as well.”

RICARDO: “We live in Berkeley. We love coming over to visit Jan and Don. We love it for exactly the same reasons she does. It’s just fantastic to be outside on a non-traffic street.”

JAN: “It’s very European”

MAUREEN: “Yeah. I guess so. We’re on a little hike.”

RICARDO: “We don’t have slow streets in Berkeley.”

MAUREEN: “There’s one slow street that I know of and they’re thinking about giving them up.”

RICARDO: “It’s a highly congested city compared to San Francisco so it’s much more difficult with traffic and whatnot to do that. I think it would be a great idea to make Slow Lake Street permanent. Wonderful. To be dismissive of traffic as much as possible within the boundaries of reason.”

MAUREEN: “In Lisbon and Porto there’s lots of streets where there’s restaurants on either side of the street and it’s just blocked off and all of the tables are in the street. Why can’t we do that?”

RICARDO: “It’s a promenade.”

JAN SMITH, MAUREEN HANLON, RICARDO CHARLES and a Friend (walking together)