San Francisco Mayor London Breed was all smiles Friday when she received reelection endorsements from a swath of Chinatown business leaders during a press event inside Hon’s Wun-Tun House.
During her comments, Breed addressed the recent controversy over a potential bike lane landing in the neighborhood. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority tabled the possibility, at least in the short-term, following fervent opposition from neighborhood advocates, many of whom showed up in person to back Breed on Friday.
Two of the scenarios outlined in the SFMTA plan added bike infrastructure to the neighborhood — one installed a bike lane on Broadway, while the other made Pacific Avenue and Jackson Street a shared road between bikes and cars. A third scenario wouldn’t have added any new bike lanes. Newsom calls for public-school ban on cell-phone use Some San Francisco schools go further than the current district policy and what the governor is proposing
Chinatown leaders say what ultimately caused the agency to cave was when Breed’s office, at their request, reached out to the agency and asked they not include Chinatown in their plans for now.