The beleaguered residents of Lombard Street's most popular stretch will remain under tourist siege for the near future, it appears, after a proposal to decrease tourist traffic via a toll system was stalled at the study stage.

We've been talking about this for a while now: Residents along SF's iconic twisty street say that tourists are getting too obnoxious to bear, with one 20-year resident saying last fall that he had to chase two visitors with a golf club after they breached his roof.

Since 2014, the city has sought to find a solution to the issue, first by closing the area to cars, which had the unexpected consequence of packing the area with pedestrians. Supervisor Mark Farrell pushed the San Francisco County Transportation Authority to seek a solution, and what they came up with was a possible toll/reservation system...a brilliant, mind-blowing plan that "kept nine city staffers and two outside consulting firms busy for more than a year" and cost $110,000 to conceive.

Apparently, that $110K wasn't enough to figure out how tolls work, as the Ex reports that the CTA was poised Tuesday to spend $250,000 more to study the proposed toll plan.

(Hilariously, that $250K is just "the first portion of the study," the Ex reports, "meant to develop potential ways for the tolling system to operate, and to engineer equipment to make the tolling possible." Another $250,000 in planning funding "was announced Monday as part of Mayor Ed Lee’s proposed capital budget.")

At Tuesday's CTA Board meeting, however, Board of Supervisors president London Breed stalled the funding vote. Breed, who'd previously supported Farrell's toll plan, complained Tuesday that decision makers hadn't been presented with enough options to solve Lombard's congestion crisis. “I’m sure there are better options" than the toll plan, she said.

Firing back at Breed, Farrell told the Ex that "the neighbors are rightfully demanding action from City Hall, and not excuses...After multiple years of study from city agencies, the surrounding neighborhoods are in agreement with city staff to explore a pricing reservation management system.”

The CTA Board is made up of SF's 11 supervisors, with Aaron Peskin as Chair and Katy Tang as Vice Chair. So now, the question is who from the Board will side with Breed, and who with Farrell. If enough other members of the board share Breed's misgivings, it's back to the drawing board for the CTA...and back to the golf bag, it appears, for some Lombard Street residents.

Previously: It Took Nine People And $110K To Come Up With Toll Idea For Lombard Street