Slow Down--They Live Here

On my way to a baby shower in the Tenderloin for a former student, I noticed more of the banners proclaiming, "Slow down!  We live here."  Now I see them in Arabic, Tagalog, Spanish, and Vietnamese.  (I have them here in the first three language, but I failed to get the one in Vietnamese even though the mother-to-be, a former student, is from--and in--Vietnamese community.)

The "slow down" directive is in reference to traffic, I think, but it could be used to pertain to closing services too:  Slow down and reflect before closing a service to the community.
I'm thinking of the very sudden closure of City College's Civic Center at 750 Eddy, close to the people in the Tenderloin, who weren't told until the first day of the semester, January 12, that they could no longer attend classes there and were sent off to other parts of the city.

  I'm glad that on August 17, the students in the Tenderloin will have classes at 1170 Market, much closer to home.

But I do think it would be good to speed up community services and slow down before cutting them off for those who live there.