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I've noticed SF has been getting more and more hostile to cars, narrowing the roads, making the lights more restrictive (more red arrow to turn right), shutting
by twelve40 5y ago
I've noticed SF has been getting more and more hostile to cars, narrowing the roads, making the lights more restrictive (more red arrow to turn right), shutting down Market for traffic, etc. I often sit at an empty intersection with noone in sight waiting for the pedestrian light, then for the bikers' light, but in most places (outside a few spots downtown) there are no bikers or pedestrians, especially later in the day. I'm sure whoever did this thinks it's "progressive" and "good".
Charge the cars whatever you want, but please build a functioning public transportation first. My hometown added 59 subway stations in the last 10 years, that's more than the entire BART system in its history. Nothing about public transportation in San Francisco makes any sense. If you want to go to SFO, you can wait for a stinky BART train for 15+ minutes, then do a weird back and forth 30 minute trip, or you can just Uber in 20 minutes.
I used to Caltrain into SF until I couldn't stand it anymore, it doubles the commute time, and the train stinks. Projects like the Central Subway (or even the Salesforce Terminal - what is that pompous-looking building used for??? Greyhound?) are an embarrassing joke compared to the cities that actually build useful public transit systems.
Until then, you are just extorting money from people who cannot spend 2x the time on a stinky crumbling train that goes nowhere near work.