I lived as a pedestrian for 15 years in SF and I can attest that it is a perfectly, fabulously walkable city, at least the Northeastern quadrant where most of t

I lived as a pedestrian for 15 years in SF and I can attest that it is a perfectly, fabulously walkable city, at least the Northeastern quadrant where most of the stuff is located. But I was always dismayed when I would walk around elsewhere, even in urban areas like Oakland, and find some gargantuan highway interchange sprawling between me and my destination, practically daring me to try to find my way through at my own physical risk. It's an absolute failure of urban design that plagues the Bay Area and is one of the things that ultimately led me to leave. And yes, bikes are great, but some of us prefer to galavant around without a multi-thousand dollar liability to keep locked up. Also, I was usually at least half drunk.