Roughly half the Slow Streets instituted in San Francisco early in the pandemic are here to stay — including the hotly-debated Lake Street — after a vote by the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency Tuesday night.

Slow Streets were created at the beginning of the pandemic to give residents space to recreate while social distancing as well as a way to deter car traffic in some corridors. The city originally installed 31 Slow Streets but the transportation agencydecided to keep 15 that were “within the acceptable range of traffic volumes and speeds, lack conflicts (with) other street uses, are supported by their surrounding communities, and provide important connections to the citywide active transportation network.”

Jordan Parker