San Francisco Closes First Street To Private Cars, How Long Until They Close More?

A $600M USD investment is no joke. And if it revitalizes the area and brings in more business and tax revenue, it will be a very good thing for the city. Expect this trend to move to other cities in North America. This European approach to walkable and rideable cities will continue to benefit cities who adopt it.

spoken like someone that gets all their info from fox news.

Meh, the socialist Bored of Stupivisors has tried its best to run SF into the ground. Yet the City succeeds despite the best efforts of the fascist liberals who would prefer to ban all cars everywhere. Market Street between 5th and Civic Center, is a haven for homeless, drug dealers, and all other forms of street vermin. Closing it off to cars will only serve to inconvenience a lot of folks and add to the traffic jams that occur at all hours of the day around that area on the side streets. It will do NOTHING to make that stretch of Market St any more desirable. The City has been promising to "clean up" Market St since the 1960's and it's literally done nothing effective. This will be another giant FAIL.

Yet you're passionate about it, but provided no solutions. Stopping the cars will actually help some of the traffic from the people getting their drugs and going back to the burbs or high rises.

No cars but homeless squatters are permitted to filthy and defile the areas in San Fransisco.

The communists in San Francisco need to close streets to traffic so more drug addicted homeless people can scatter their needles everywhere.

It’s for your benefit. Those needles are sure to give you a flat.

Its so funny how people keep talking about homeless people and drug addicts like they aren't human. I bet everyone of you all that said that have a prescription bottle and pop pills everyday. Yet you sit back and point the finger at others... its funny.. I am getting a kick out of it.. please tell us more...

Folks are not driving into SF and buying their drugs by double parking on Market St. There's literally nowhere to do that. Drugs are so readily available everywhere these days that they don't need to drive into SF for that.

There's a big difference between prescription drugs that help folks with heart conditions and other maladies, and recreational drugs that actually kill folks and destroy their lives. These addicts are living on the streets, panhandling aggressively, committing crimes, and even defecating on the sidewalks. They are a huge problem that SF, despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on annually, have not been able to solve. That's simply because the far left politicians refuse to enforce the existing laws.