[Crawford]

Curb cuts are the main reason SF doesn't have quite the same street-level quality as cities on its urban tier. Boston and Philly have proportionally far fewer curb cuts (as well as narrower streets) and it makes a big difference from the pedestrian perspective.

Granted, SF still has fantastic urbanity for U.S. standards, and easily the best urbanity west of the Mississippi (and plausibly the best urbanity outside the Northeast), but the proliferation of curb cuts is a negative.