[oceanofsolaris]

But SF is a damn rich city (due to all the tech companies and their employees). Why didn’t they solve or at least tackle these problems?

It’s not like Cruise / Waymo could change city planning against the cities will, even if they wanted.

[andrewia]

SF politics are notoriously slow about a lot of things. There are actually new, significant lobbying efforts to tackle some issues: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/tech-rooted-groups...

[Tiktaalik]

Just because the population of SF is rich doesn't mean SF is rich.

Cities have very weak abilities to raise revenue, and are relentlessly politically attacked whenever they try to raise more revenue via higher property taxes and other things.

Our cities are actually starved of revenue and especially post pandemic at risk of bankruptcy without bailouts from higher governments.

[paxys]

Because smart people who work in tech are above silly things like urban planning and getting involved in local politics.