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If you don't live anywhere near the financial district, SOMA, etc but, live in Hayes or Noe Valley, etc then you say the world the is great because you aren't going to the office and never see the devastation of closed and boarded store fronts.

Traffic on a weekday is similar to traffic before 10am.

It only gets rough at 130-2pm as people are leaving earlier than they did before Covid and really, it's not that many people.

Before Covid, if I were in the city after 3pm, I hang around til 6 or 7.

Now, I just leave anytime and if it's during the new rush hour I just take it because it's nothing like it was before Covid.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/sfnext-downtown/

Before the pandemic, office work was responsible for a whopping 72% of the city’s gross domestic product, according to the Controller’s Office

Measuring the pandemic's impact

Here's how downtown San Francisco fared during the pandemic through four metrics

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Office space vacancy*	4.8M sq. ft (Q1 2019)	18.7M sq. ft (Q1 2022)	290% 290% 290%
Convention attendees**	221.5K (Q1 2019)	30.3K (Q1 2022)	−86% −86% −86%
BART exits***	9.8M (Q1 2019)	2.3M (Q1 2022)	−76% −76% −76%
Sales tax revenue****	$55.6M (2019)	$33.5M (2021)	−40% −40% −40%

It's worse than that now, as this article is over 1 year old

Informative reply. Interesting link.

It says “facing challenges ...”

“challenges” is putting it way too mildly.

“have yet to come up with a plan to make the fundamental changes”

How many times do we hear that “plan ... fundamental changes are needed”?

The only fundamental change for SF must be to get the vagrants out of the city. Can’t be done by woke leaders put in place by woke voters.

Sooner or later those not near the financial district are going to be sorry.