It’s been one year since Mayor Lurie announced that Waymo and Uber and Lyft Black vehicles would be allowed to use car-free Market Street.
Supervisor Bilal Mahmood has called a hearing for April 27, 2026 at City Hall to examine how Market Street is working in the year since these changes were made. Representatives from SFMTA, SF Planning, and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development will share updates and answer questions from the supervisors at the hearing.
Hearing Details
Monday, April 27, 2026
SF City Hall
1:30pm: Board of Supervisors Land Use and Transportation Committee Hearing
Room 250
This is an important opportunity to let City Hall know that we are still here and ready to stand up to protect a safer, faster Market Street for everyone who rides a bike, takes transit, and walks in San Francisco.
Last week, we went on a ride on Market Street with Supervisor Mahmood, where we observed a street full of people riding bikes and scooters and walking. We also saw loading bays full of parked private vehicles, AVs blocking crosswalks on side streets, and double parked cars blocking the bike lanes and forcing people riding bikes and scooters into the Muni red lanes.
Streets For All SF is part of the Keep Market Street Moving Alliance, a coalition of mobility advocates, labor, community groups focused on making Market Street safe for everyone who walks, bikes, or takes transit, fast for Muni users, and vibrant for everyone who visits the area. We’ve sent letters to the city with policy suggestions, delivered a petition with over 2500 signatures to city leaders, and worked hard to both raise awareness of the issues that remain and partner with city departments on solutions.
Since Market Street went car-free in 2020, one of the city’s most dangerous streets and slowest Muni corridors has seen tangible improvements for how San Franciscans get downtown. Muni service now runs 14% faster, and traffic fatalities are down by 40% on the car-free section of Market. Adding more cars will chip away at the progress we’ve made on transit speed and reliability over the past five years.
As a coalition we believe that the time and resources that have been poured into accommodating Waymo, Uber, and Lyft are better spent improving transit and street safety.
We're calling on the Board of Supervisors, SFMTA, and Mayor Lurie to close the loophole in the Market Street legislation that allows passenger commercial vehicles, and allow only commercial vehicles making active goods deliveries to businesses on Market Street.
As the Board of Supervisors hears from city departments today, we’ll be showing up yet again to lift up community concerns. Join us at City Hall, or stay tuned for more updates about this campaign.