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Our Readers Write: Thoughts on PB’s ‘slow street’

Diamond Street is temporarily closed to through traffic between Mission Boulevard and Haines Street as a "slow street."
Diamond Street in Pacific Beach is temporarily closed to through traffic between Mission Boulevard and Haines Street as one of San Diego’s first “slow streets.”
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A reason for PB’s ‘slow street’?

I have an idea why Diamond Street in Pacific Beach was chosen to close as a “slow street.”

Diamond Street in Pacific Beach is temporarily closed to through traffic between Mission Boulevard and Haines Street — a development that may have surprised community leaders and other residents as much as motorists trying to use it.

May 26, 2020

Originally it was closed from farther east than Haines Street, and I think the reason it was chosen is because it is the only street that is relatively quiet that has a traffic light on the corner of Ingraham Street.

Without the light, people would be crossing a potentially dangerous street that is high-traffic, so having many pedestrians and bicyclists crossing it would be rather dangerous. Of course, now it begins on Haines, so that is no longer a problem, but may have been the original thought.

Andrea McCarren

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