Not that Mission St is not a problem, but I am missing the point you make in conjunction with the injured pedestrian and Home Depot or Lowes. Did there delivery truck hit them? Did one of their customers hit them?

If I recall correctly, a UCSC Student hit the pedestrian and took off on foot. Does this mean we should get rid of the UC because of additional housing problems, traffic, etc?

I am not trying to instigate an argument or pick a fight, but this reasoning is insane. To be honest, I think that the businesses may or may not be ideal for Santa Cruz facing a $42 million dollar decision to make Salz Tannery into an Art center with digital media lab.

It's very true Mission St has a fatal problem with traffic, but remember, Mission St is really State Route 1 with a lowered speed limit through the City. Similar to Pacific or San Mateo County where SR1 cuts through the cities.

Have you seen the traffic on Bay St lately? Those students barrel down at high rates of speed and collide into vehicles crossing on Escalona all the time.

It seems the common denominator in most of these crashes is not Home Depot or Lowe's but, UCSC students.