Faces of Slow Lake Street: STEVE AND LIZ WILKES

STEVE: “I do like Slow Lake. We just moved to the neighborhood a couple months ago so I’ve been enjoying getting to know the neighborhood. Seeing the different architecture, the types of houses. I work in Marin so it’s real easy for me to come home and get an hour walk in before it gets dark. I’m enjoying the beauty of San Francisco and seeing the new neighborhood.”

LIZ: “For me definitely, I love seeing the people that’s number one. Having a safe place to walk is really important to me. But I love seeing the families, ages from little ones to all the way to elderly being able to walk safely and interact with one another. You can see the community. It’s a real community builder too.

We live in the city, we’re just living over here temporarily. We live in West Portal and we actually don’t have a slow street near us. We do go to the Great Highway a lot.

It’s wonderful to not have to get in your car and to be able to just walk and have it quiet and peaceful and have people around. To me it’s a huge benefit. And I see it as a big community builder. You see people talking to each other. You don’t normally see that if there’s cars going down the street. So to me, safety is number one but also the community part of it is probably paramount to me.”

STEVE AND LIZ WILKES (walking together)