[chrischen]

I would add that SF is even more different in that nobody owns cars and the transit network isn’t rxtensive enough for one to rely on it for all parts of the city. So people end up taking uber and lyft everywhere.

[santaclaus]

> SF is even more different in that nobody owns cars

70% of SF households own a car, so still a majority by a long shot [1].

[1] http://www.governing.com/gov-data/car-ownership-numbers-of-v...

[kurthr]

Many of those households have more than one person in them (2.3 by the 2010 census) so I'm not sure it's a majority.

http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty....

40% drive alone, while a bare majority 51% use a car, bus or van for transport (including carpools).

It's so popular, nobody does it anymore.

[jernoble]

Interesting. At 1.10 cars per household, and 2.26 people per household, about 47% of SF residents own cars. (Though subtracting out the under-18 population means 55% of driving-age residents own a car.) Also, given there must be some people who own more than one, the actual percentage is probably lower. Still, that's a lower number than I imagined.

[bhousel]

SF also has like 1/10 the population of NYC.

[djsumdog]

> So people end up taking uber and lyft everywhere.

People also cycle a lot. Most Caltrain services almost always have two bike cars.