San Francisco's most famous street will make tourists pay $ 10 – 18/04/2019

Lombard Street San Francisco Street (California, United States, nicknamed the "The most winding of the world" for his eight curves in just 125 meters, will charge $ 10 to visitors who want to travel by car, said city councilor Catherine Stefani.

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The council of city supervisors approved by 11 votes without opposition the imposition of a "toll" to this popular tourist attraction, which is estimated to be frequented each year. Two million visitors with an average of 17,000 tourists a day during the summer weekends.

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The measurement is designed to reduce traffic and tourist pressure on neighbors of the zone, because in the Lombard street there are residences on each side and its access as much to the garages as to the houses.

In addition to congestion, neighbors complain of the noise and lack of civic attitude of some tourists who climb the roofs of houses and urinate on the portals.

"We need to put in place a system that allows residents and visitors to enjoy the world's most winding street," said Phil Ting, a Democratic congressman from San Francisco, who drafted the law of the United States. State at the California Assembly that has City approves the toll.

The rate agreed by the municipal council will only start to apply in 2020 and will be charged to vehicles only who want to drive along the stretch with more curves on Lombard Street, which should also make a book in advance.

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In this stretch of Lombard which, in addition to the curves, has a steep slope, you can only go down, and most of the inhabitants of the city avoid it, because it is more convenient and fast to take alternative routes, so that its use is almost exclusively reserved for tourists and residents.

Once the measure is implemented, Lombard Street will join another San Francisco icon that will also charge those who wish, the Golden Gate Bridge, which requires paying 8 dollars per vehicle to those who cross it.

EFE