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> As someone who doesn't live in SF but has visited many times I'm not really sure what the issue with Market Street and cars is. Funny you say that. I've been
by coldpie 7y ago
> As someone who doesn't live in SF but has visited many times I'm not really sure what the issue with Market Street and cars is.
Funny you say that. I've been to SF about a half-dozen times for work and Market St stands out to me as a nightmare to cross on foot. Tons of fast-moving cross-traffic, cars turning across crosswalks, and tons of pedestrians fighting all that. I'm glad to hear there's less traffic there (though honestly, if I have the choice, I will also be glad if I never have to visit SF again).
- ghaff 7y agoOne of the problems with Market is that you basically have two grids coming together at an angle so you have a lot of sort of weird complex intersections. Plus it’s just a very busy and congested area that has also had lots of construction going on for ages. I used to look forward to visiting SF. I’m much more ambivalent these days.
- drdeadringer 7y agoI visit San Francisco multiple times a year and have likewise had cause to cross Market Street on foot. It has never crossed my mind that Market Street was some kind of special hell for pedestrians. It's a busy street in the middle of a city and there are cross walks. I don't know what people would otherwise expect.
- chasd00 7y agofurther, Market has some of the widest sidewalks i've ever seen.
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