As is becoming the norm with community meetings to discuss street-safety improvements, an angry group of residents devolved Monday night's SFMTA meeting on Mission Street's transit-only lanes into a shouting match. Streetsblog reports that while those in attendance appeared to be evenly divided on whether or not they liked the new bus lanes, those opposed stole the show — speaking over their allotted times and screaming angrily at those in favor.

"You ain't been here long enough!" video captured by Examiner reporter Joe Fitz Rodriguez shows one man yelling at a supporter of the lanes. "When you've been here 70 years, then tell me about it!"

That those opposed to the lanes — lanes which SFMTA officials report have drastically improved safety and bus reliability along Mission Street — see them as another form of redlining (as Mission Local notes) can hardly be seen as a surprise following Supervisor David Campos's attempt to equate safer and more efficient public transportation with a "red carpet" for gentrification in a March Facebook post.

"Most people working by, living on and driving down Mission Street will tell you that the new transit-only red carpet lanes are anything but glamorous," wrote Campos. "While I understand the intention was to enhance the commute of 65,000 transit riders, the changes look better on paper than in practice. [...] That’s why I’m calling on the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to make a radical shift in the program."

The loudest attendees at Monday night's meeting appeared to have heard Campos loud and clear, demanding the "radical shift" that Campos promised — shouting down those who pointed out the lanes' benefits. When Cathy DeLuca of Walk San Francisco noted that “Traffic deaths are a public health issue,” Mission Local reports that she was met with a cry of "Bullshit!”

“We are sick of people coming into our neighborhoods to tell us what they want and then just like they did today they leave,” one attendee, Miguel Bustos, told ML.

Campos, for his part, looks to be walking back his earlier advocacy for a radical shift in the program. “I put out a Facebook statement that maybe didn’t reflect our goal," Streetsblog reports Campos as saying. "Our goal is to hear all the impacts: the positive, the negative, and all in between.”

As SFMTA officials ponder whether or not to undo the completed transit-only lanes, time will tell what impact chaotic meetings like Monday's have on the process.

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