Support Grows For Street Closure In S.F. Tenderloin For Kids' Recreation

CBS San Francisco

October 17, 2022

Each weekend in San Francisco for the past six months a different street has been closed to traffic to allow residents to come out and play. It's a program called "Sunday Streets" and it has been wildly popular. Now, some are proposing the idea as a permanent way to help out one the city's most downtrodden neighborhoods.

"You know, it's a rough place and a lot of people can't take it, mentally," said Lewis Murphy, a crossing guard with the city's "Safe Passage" program. He sees the problem every time he works a shift helping people on the streets of the Tenderloin and he especially worries about the kids there.

"There's a lot of mentally ill people and, if I was a child and I had to walk past people doing drugs or drinking or passed out on the sidewalk -- yeah, I'd be a little bit leery," Murphy said.

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