Will the city screw up Masonic Avenue even more?

San Francisco Citizen:

The proposal is to allow drivers to only use the “fast” lanes on this stop and go (during rush hour anyway) street. Banning left turns would be an obvious choice to go along with that, and that’s part of the plan as well, I understand.

Anyway, it didn’t used to be like this just saying…

Rob's comment:

The "proposal" referred to is apparently this:

Hard to believe that the city is going to screw up Masonic even more than it already has after it removed all the street parking between Fell Street and Geary Boulevard to make bike lanes that are little-used by cyclists. 

Surely it's not going use the bogus emergency to eliminate another traffic lane---there are now only two lanes in each direction on a street that carries 32,000 cars a day---to make a "Temporary emergency transit lane"?

I often ride the #43 Masonic bus, and it already moves well between Haight Street and Geary Blvd. in spite of all the stop signs and stop lights.

Masonic Avenue was transformed into a Streetscape Project several years ago. That terminology was deceptive, since those "improvements" were nothing but the bike lanes---tarted up with some landscaping---created by taking away 167 spaces of street parking. (Those parking lanes used to be converted to traffic lanes to ease the morning and evening commute.)

See also City Hall's new lie on Masonic Avenue and Ed Reiskin's legacy: Masonic Avenue.