San Francisco is a car city now. Sorry

San Francisco risks becoming a car city as transit ridership collapses while car use returns to pre-pandemic levels. Faculty Fellow Marcel Moran explains the planning reality: "If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. If you plan for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic." In neighborhoods like Richmond and Sunset, "the vast majority of the public right-of-way has been reserved for car movement and car storage." Though Moran sees "positive signs for people-centric, non-car, walking, biking, and transit," it's "against the backdrop of a city whose infrastructure privileges the automobile."