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Early morning winter vibes in SF

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Looking for something positive in this pandemic...

The stay-at-home period also opened the door for experimentation. Oakland, San Francisco and other cities began closing streets to automobiles. Widespread remote working has produced the traffic-free utopia that some environmentalists had dreamed about, in which people travel only as far as they can walk or bike. Previously, it always seemed out of reach.

Yet going forward, Bay Area residents may have to accept a bare-bones transportation system for months — even years — as the state struggles to ramp up testing and develop a COVID-19 vaccine.

How well that plays out will vary depending on whether the lines you use most have reduced frequency to meet reduced demand or suspended indefinitely.

Some of these temporary "slow streets" might remain restricted to local traffic for months to come where the traffic demand is slow to come back. Some may never re-open as traffic ramps up again and people decided it isn't the end of the world to not put cars ahead of all else.

At some point during this period, the economy will open back up. But that doesn’t mean people need to go back to the office, said Steve Heminger, a board director at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.

“Are we returning to an old normal after this is over, or are we advancing to a new normal?” Heminger mused. “My vote is probably the latter.”

It’s ever more likely the SFMTA will end up in a budget situation where Director Heminger won't even have an option but to vote against a return to the “old normal”.

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Plush mornings on Page St

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You know it’s going to be a beautiful day when the Baker heart extends its shadow across the kingdom of Haight.

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Page street polar bear at Webster

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Road closed to rough traffic

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Page street blossoms in full force

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