Urban planners and transportation experts express the need to overhaul San Francisco's transit infrastructure to meet the city's current and future needs, which are increasingly challenged by climate change.
San Francisco is built for cars. That might seem counterintuitive in a hilly city notoriously hard to navigate by automobile, but one brush with rush-hour traffic along 19th Avenue, the Bay Bridge or U.S. Highway 101 underscores how many people still find it necessary to drive into The City and within it.
If given the chance to rebuild San Francisco from the ground up, urban planners and transportation experts said they would first overhaul The City’s transit infrastructure, which they say is inadequate to meet its current needs — and the needs of a future increasingly challenged by climate change. “The future is at stake — literally,” Stanford urban development expert Dehan Glanz told The Examiner. “So as I see it, there’s no action too bold.” Though San Francisco has long billed itself as an environmentally conscious enclave, cars still rule the roads. Only 11% of trips into and out of San Francisco are on public transit, while 61% are in cars, according to 2021 San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority data
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