Faces of Slow Lake Street: JP AND SAM LAVALLEE
SAM: “We walk to school every day. Dad will often walk me up to school every morning. So that’s one of the many ways. We will bike. We walk.”
JP: “I cargo bike to pick her up. In the morning we walk the dog. And the dog gets a walk. And then for the afternoon pick up I pick her up on a bike. The nice change is I used to pick her up in a Ford F150. No joke. And now, we don’t use it. That truck has sold. That is a big change for us, so we really like it. We support this. It’s fantastic.”
SAM: “Absolutely!”
JP: “We got to get some of the fast moving cars to stop.”
SAM: “Yeah. Like seriously. Rage. And then they just go full speed down. And then another thing is I would like to get it to First and Lake too.”
JP: “Oh, you want it to go all the way?”
SAM: “‘Cause that is the last street. It bugs me. We live on 6th and Lake so yeah. First is a problem for me. But personally, I don’t like the fact that we have to fight for this. This is so much better and the fact that some of the people, even on Lake, don’t like it, is absurd. Seriously. It is way more peaceful and it’s upsetting, frankly, that we’re even considering stopping this.”
JP: “And I think it feels like we’re always begging for scraps and the automobile always has so much priority all the time. We always consider their needs for every freaking thing.”
SAM: “It’s like the Boreal Warden in the Creatures of Sonaria. You just cannot win. You can not win against the Boreal Warden in Sonaria. It is impossible.”
JP: “Creatures of Sonaria. It’s a video game.”
SAM: “They are 60,000 times taller than you almost no matter what creature you are and you cannot fight them. They will insta kill you. No matter what.”
JP: “The Board of Supervisors and Mayor already approved 80% car emission reduction by 2030. But they’re not going to implement it. The way they’re implementing it is doing practically nothing to get to that goal. She should be leading on this project. She should be blazing the trail. Instead she’s taking the temperature, so to speak, of every person, which is a delaying tactic as far as I’m concerned. And it’s irresponsible. I’m talking about the Mayor (London Breed) and our Supervisors (Catherine) Stefani and (Connie) Chan. Both of them seem to be very neutral. Chan (District 1) is against it. From everything I’ve heard Chan seems to be against it. But Stefani. It’s hard to get a read on her because it’s only a little piece of her District (2), so I can’t be sure.”
JP and SAM LAVALLEE (Dad and daughter walking)