Powell Street. Sweet lord. Private automobiles should /never/ be allowed to drive on Powell south of at minimum Post. All vehicles other than cable cars should

Powell Street. Sweet lord. Private automobiles should /never/ be allowed to drive on Powell south of at minimum Post. All vehicles other than cable cars should be banned from driving down Powell, and the sidewalk should be doubled in size to take over the current automobile lanes. Nearly every major city in Europe has pedestrianized its central shopping backbone, and the fact that SF hasn't yet (with the amount of pedestrian traffic down there) is encroaching on dangerous. EDIT: And to add, to see what a pedestrian downtown San Fransisco could look like, check out the Winter Walk on Stockton over the Central Subway construction. It's amazing, and I'm so terrified that when the construction is finished they're going to let automobiles drive down there again. It's ridiculous that people are second-class citizens to cars in the downtown of a major world city.