The historic, car-free transformation of San Francisco's busiest street opens to the public today.
Mayor London Breed takes to the Internet today to announce the arrival of a whole new Market Street in San Francisco.
Starting today, over 2 miles of Market Street will become car-free, a historic milestone in the history of San Francisco and in the world-wide movement to create more spaces that are made for people.
According to Breed, Market Street is the busiest street in the city, and it's taken decades of politics and planning to complete this transformation. The final clearance for today's big reveal came in October 2019—the culmination of the Better Market Street process, which invested $604 million to improve the public realm for all users of the street.
Jeffrey Tumlin, the recently hired executive director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, was on the scene this morning to reveal the new Market Street, and it almost looks like a scene in Europe.
Market St this morning pic.twitter.com/5z2GZI6P35
— Jeffrey Tumlin (@jeffreytumlin) January 29, 2020
The comments on a celebratory tweet from Mayor Breed, however, are typically American.
Starting today, San Francisco's main civic boulevard puts people first.
Market Street is officially car-free!https://t.co/lJbk8R2jMS— London Breed (@LondonBreed) January 29, 2020
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