Originally Posted by kalliergo

John, for some reason, the comments sections of SFGate stories are dominated by really hateful anti-cycling and anti-pedestrian voices. They reflect cultural trends in our nation as a whole more than in San Francisco itself. I'm pretty sure that a majority of the posters don't live in the City.

That said, traffic conflicts in San Francisco are horrendous. That's pretty much inevitable when you put 800,000 people in 47 hilly square miles -- and allow many thousands more to commute in from the suburbs daily via private automobile.

Cars just don't work well in cities and they make them a dangerous, noisy mess for everyone. San Francisco is a poster child for that truth, which should be glaringly obvious, but most Americans live in a cultural trance that makes it invisible -- and inconceivable.

Leaving the traffic mess aside, we have one of the most awesome small cities on the planet, IMHO. Come see us. 16 million visitors a year might not be wrong.