The slow traffic / slow lifestyle movement isn't winning friends in handsome hamlets on the peninsula: this story in the Chronicle talks about neighbourhood reactions to various traffic-calming devices built into residential districts in Menlo Park, Palo Alto, and the Lower Haight.
Of course:
"To head off controversy, San Francisco traffic officials have turned to democracy in testing of seven new traffic circles in the Haight two months ago,
polling neighbors who live within a block of each circle. "