I feel like the solution should really be to make Franklin (a 3 lane, one-way street with timed lights) the south->north 101 and Gough (a 3 lane, one-way street

I feel like the solution should really be to make Franklin (a 3 lane, one-way street with timed lights) the south->north 101 and Gough (a 3 lane, one-way street with timed lights) the north->south 101. People who live in the city already take these routes whenever they can (unless there is construction mess, which seems to be common now). I don't love the traffic hassle being added to Van Ness, but Van Ness is already the worse option for the city so the road systems should be updated to reflect that reality. Polk St. is being turned into the bicycle fast transit route also, so when those 2 projects are finished it will be 4 side-by-side roads with different transit priorities. The key here should really be to push all the cars onto Franklin and Gough.