Name: Why Car-Free Streets May Be Here to Stay
Uploaded: 2021-05-29T02:56:51.000Z
Duration: 14 min 31 s
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it can be very eerie to look out at a street

Traffic in urban centers has been a constant,

but under the threat of coronavirus, many have been

experiencing what life could be like without it.

Well how about this, it's probably about 10%

Especially in San Francisco where each commuter

spends 103 hours waiting in traffic every year.

And the cost of congestion totaled over $5 billion in 2017.

And while it may seem like the natural solution

to pave more roads and increase freeway space,

the city's actually taking the opposite approach.

And if it works, it might just help spread this idea

of building cities around people, not cars.

am not traveling to San Francisco anytime soon,

I'm recruiting the help of my colleague Laura Bliss.

Not only because she lives in the Bay Area,

that's grown in recent years is really striking.

Texas A&M University has published a study

and especially here in the Bay Area, is bad.

entering the city on a daily basis has grown by 27%.

of ride-handling apps like Uber and Lyft.

And in San Francisco, the tech boom has meant

more people are coming to the city every day.

There's also a really sharp uptick in pedestrian

fatalities that the city has seen in recent years.

And this is an issue that all of the United States

has been experiencing over the last decade.

over the years to try to address its traffic problem.

Well another plan is in the works to transform

A mega makeover of San Francisco's Mid-Market Street.

All the way back to the dawn of automobiles,

Market Street has struggled with a diverse

and even back in 1906 it could get a little hairy.

You've got Ubers, you've got private cars,

you've got delivery trucks, you've got buses.

those bike lanes kinda disappear and cyclists

At best, this can lead to increased congestion.

And at worst, it could lead to an accident.

The city's Better Market Street Plan aims to fix this

by removing private cars from entering the road,

allowing dedicated lanes for trams, buses,

and cyclists to run unimpeded for the two mile stretch.

And while construction will take years to complete,

the first step, removing cars, is already in effect.

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