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There’s a push to let cars back on S.F.’s Market Street. It’s not a good idea (www.sfchronicle.com)

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Cars haven’t been allowed on the corridor since 2020, but now some are saying that the car-free experiment should end.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed. The problem was they had planned to redo the streetscape as part of the Better Market Street initiative, but the plans fell through because the Board of Supervisors spent so much time infighting that they lost the federal funds that would have funded it:

https://www.planetizen.com/news/2022/11/119462-san-francisco-returns-15-million-federal-grant-market-street-improvements

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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