At 40 Years, San Francisco’s Transit-First Policy Still Struggles for Traction

[KamaAina]

2. The demise of the tolltakers was not meant to aid drivers

it was to eliminate jobs. Speeding up traffic merely adds insult to injury.

The City, as we call it out here, has been looking at congestion pricing (as has NYC), either establishing a cordon along 16th and Laguna streets (about a mile and a half from downtown) or even setting up tolls at the city's southern edge (its only land border, with only a few key streets and highways crossing it).

A Times Square-style pedestrian mall might extend from the cable car turnaround at Powell and Market up to Union Square, only a couple of blocks but, like Times Square, the heart of tourist activity.